Account Fraud - please help and advise

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First noticed this earlier - my gmail account i couldn't access..


Now i've found my avforums account the same, and now ebay...

Looks like fraud...

I've run all adaware, spybot, disk cleanup, hijackthis and started to change passwords...

trying to contact said parties...

Help needed big time
 
Can't access as in a invalid password? Quickly reset your passwords, as for AVFORUMS check one of your old posts to see if anyone has been fooling around with it.

Try logging in on a differerent machine?

Can you reset the password with a question?

Where all your passwords easy to remember dictionary words and all the same?

Do you have any software for virus protection? Do you believe you've been "shoulder surfed?" where someone watches you type your password?
 
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Looks like you have been hax0rd

First thing i would is e-mail Ebay tech support - If your ebay has been hacked dont can't they see your credit card deatails ? :confused:

David334
 
Tony Williams said:
Can't access as in a invalid password? Quickly reset your passwords, as for AVFORUMS check one of your old posts to see if anyone has been fooling around with it.

Try logging in on a differerent machine?

Can you reset the password with a question?

Where all your passwords easy to remember dictionary words and all the same?

Do you have any software for virus protection? Do you believe you've been "shoulder surfed?" where someone watches you type your password?

Definately not shoulder surfed...

My account at avforums had a post from a guy from lithunaia with his icq address listed (220-336-893) as in now updated in my profile.


Virus protection is nod32

emailed ebay tech support - might try resetting the password though - but problem is my email is also hacked! but i have another account
 
Tony Williams said:
Can you give me your user name to the forums? or the page he posted at?



old username is 'dobbadobbs' on avforums. i posted under my new username 'dobbadobbs2610' in the help section, and since then the post he had made has been deleted - it was requesting mobile phones....
 
Okay, here is what you'll have to do ...

It appears your Gmail is invalid. Not much can be done with eBay since you've chaged the Paypal as for AVForums no chance.

Do this ...

Call Halifax for a new card/account as paypal only let's one card per account and I think eBay only let's you have one paypal per ebay.

Get the new card, transfair money over and have the old one closed or whatever. Create a new Paypal and eBay and use a Hotmail address with it. (I had trouble with Gmail a while back)

Make a new AVForum account or use the other one you had.

Change all passwords to something secure.

(tips) this applies to other people.

Here is how I recommend you do a password ...

Think of a phase that's stupid and springs to mind and is easy to remember but is not related to you at all. For example "i like watching tv in the rain"

Now change the spaces to a charcater such as & so it's now "i&like&watching&tv&in&the&rain" or anything else maybe a full stop or comma?

Pick one or two words make them caps, eg "i&like&watching&tv&in&the&rain"

Now add more characaters like ()()[]{}{} eg

"][i&like&watching&tv&in&the&rain)("

And to finsh it a few numbers like 3455

"i&like&watching&tv&in&the&rain3455"

That's how I do my passwords, I doubt any human guess would crack it. A bruteforce would TAKE AGES.

Other tips, only YOU know the password, no one else that inculdes Paypal, eBay or Hotmail. They have no reason to ask you it and if they do it'll be a spoof.

Practase typing it quickly and remembering it.

Make sure it's NOT a word, worse password you can pick, a dictionary attack wouldn't take long. Add numbers to it at have upper and lower case and more than 8 characaters.

If you receive an email asking you to click a link and login hover the mouse over it does it take you to https://paypal.com?phplogin (or whatever or something) like http://200.208.11.22/paypal.com?

Day after day people lose thier accounts to other people and probberly have thier banks empied or data distroyed a higher secure password will help prevent that.
 
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Hey man,

Basically - to echo what others have said - sort out the essentials first, close your bank account, try and recover any (if any at all) funds present in your PayPal account and start a fresh.

Hope it sorts out for you.
 
Well, It's been confirmed there was fraudulent activity on my ebay account.

No sign of any payment in paypal, and i've cancelled my card.

Thanks for your help!
 
dobbsy said:
Well, It's been confirmed there was fraudulent activity on my ebay account.

No sign of any payment in paypal, and i've cancelled my card.

Thanks for your help!

He never had your Paypal login, so you're safe there. Re-do it all with a new name, etc and remember a secure password is a good password.
 
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