Hijacked ebay accounts?

Upgrade · 8 Nov 2018 at 13:03

I don't know if anyone has ever noticed this before, but I've been searching for a 1080ti on ebay lately and browse the newly listed section fairly often. Every day, I'll see very cheap 1080ti's being listed as buy-now. What's odd is that every single time they pop up, it's from accounts with a lot of positive feedback. Sometimes a few hundred, other times in the thousands of positive feedback. All different accounts.

Is it just a group of people hijacking accounts, selling all these items for buy now, then ditching the accounts after getting paid? Or what's actually going on? Checking their other items, it's usually ps4, xbox, iPhones all at ridiculously low buy it now prices.

Weazle · 8 Nov 2018 at 13:04

Yes they are hijacked accounts, they get the money into paypal and then run off with it.

Upgrade · 8 Nov 2018 at 13:11

Weazle said:
Yes they are hijacked accounts, they get the money into paypal and then run off with it.

Why do they always choose silly prices like £68 for a 1080ti, instead of £300-400 which would still sell really fast?

CREATIVE!11 · 8 Nov 2018 at 13:13

Yep, I notice this happening more and more.....

ci_newman · 8 Nov 2018 at 13:48

Upgrade said:
Why do they always choose silly prices like £68 for a 1080ti, instead of £300-400 which would still sell really fast?

Because the police and ebay aren't going to chase a £68 loss, losses of £400 will be investigated though.

Diddums · 8 Nov 2018 at 13:59

Dunno what you guys are all worrying about, I've bought loads of 1080Tis for £68.

Upgrade · 8 Nov 2018 at 14:17

ci_newman said:
Because the police and ebay aren't going to chase a £68 loss, losses of £400 will be investigated though.

Eh, I'd like to hope eBay chases all these £68 losses, since they're no doubt catching a lot of people.

ci_newman · 8 Nov 2018 at 14:26

Upgrade said:
Eh, I'd like to hope eBay chases all these £68 losses, since they're no doubt catching a lot of people.

You can be sure that they aren't, they will just kill the hijacked account and be on their merry way.

Glanza · 8 Nov 2018 at 14:28

It's that same on Instagram some 'company' has paid for sponsored adverts with OCUK PC's on there at hugely discounted pricing.

Upgrade · 8 Nov 2018 at 16:23

ci_newman said:
You can be sure that they aren't, they will just kill the hijacked account and be on their merry way.

So anyone that purchases from these guys are going to lose their money? ;o

Evil^ · 8 Nov 2018 at 16:45

Upgrade said:
So anyone that purchases from these guys are going to lose their money? ;o

No, They can claim the money back I had something similar on some tools I bought that were at a bargain price you have to wait a certain amount of time but then you claim within Paypal/Ebay and you get the money back after Ebay have reviewed the listing and deem it dodgy.

I had my Ebay stolen last month upon which the guy managed to buy 2 vape mod's and was half way through the third (commited to buy) I got my ebay account back within minutes (they had changed the name) and paypal sorted the payments the next day (admittedly after they pushed the payments through as non fraudulent the first time).

TBirdUK · 8 Nov 2018 at 19:57

Happened to me - I would advise everyone to unlink their paypal so they have to put their password in each purchase as I have now done - they got into my account, changed the password, then ordered loads of stuff (totaling about £1200) to be delivered to Moscow. I caught it after only 15 mins, managed to get my ebay account back, where all purchases had been hidden, and paypal/ebay refunded all the payments - only 1 company sent the items (2 x ssds).