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LadyGecko
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I have had the weirdest year so far
I have had both wonderful and not so great stuff happen to me
The latest in perplexing things is that my Ebay account was hijacked
I received a letter from EBay today telling me that there has been unauthorized activity on my EBay account
Thankfully it only involved someone using my account to post around 6 cell phones for sale
I still can't figure out how they got access to my password or into my account or why they would want to use my not very active account but it is a sickening feeling
Of course I went in and changed everything security-wise and EBay had to re-instate my account as it was closed until I replied to their emails and they even go so far as a confirmation phone call to the number that you originally register with
I am in the middle of one transaction for a used 150 gig external HD that I won at a mere $40 and my gmail account might have also been compromised because I have not received any replies to the emails that I have sent the seller concerning payment that I am supposed to make tomorrow
Firtunately i have a sepatate Gmail account just for EBay
I don't know how far that these people can go with finding out info from an EBay account as the info is supposed to be encrypted but I am very glad that my on line payment source for everything through PayPal is a pre-paid Visa card which means that I never have a balance on it more than a few dollars after making a purchase and the only time that I put money on it is right before I am going to use it
Any attempts to use it without any money actually being put on the card are denied and even if I had a regular credit card-one pf my mistakes in life was always paying cash for everything so I have no credit-I doubt that I would use it on-line with all of the theft going on
Either on-line scammers are more active or I am becoming super aware of them due to this and the problem that I had with my last gecko purchase and I think that I am going to take a rest from purchasing anything on-line for a while
The most annoying thing is that It took most of the day to get this all figured out and I can't imagine the horror of having your identity stolen and the mess that you would have to wade through with that
Well-I'm off to feed the geckos
I hope that everyone has a good night and keep an eye on your on-line accounts
These days it seems that there are plenty pf people doing just about anything that they can to get over on you
Sandy
I have had both wonderful and not so great stuff happen to me
The latest in perplexing things is that my Ebay account was hijacked
I received a letter from EBay today telling me that there has been unauthorized activity on my EBay account
Thankfully it only involved someone using my account to post around 6 cell phones for sale
I still can't figure out how they got access to my password or into my account or why they would want to use my not very active account but it is a sickening feeling
Of course I went in and changed everything security-wise and EBay had to re-instate my account as it was closed until I replied to their emails and they even go so far as a confirmation phone call to the number that you originally register with
I am in the middle of one transaction for a used 150 gig external HD that I won at a mere $40 and my gmail account might have also been compromised because I have not received any replies to the emails that I have sent the seller concerning payment that I am supposed to make tomorrow
Firtunately i have a sepatate Gmail account just for EBay
I don't know how far that these people can go with finding out info from an EBay account as the info is supposed to be encrypted but I am very glad that my on line payment source for everything through PayPal is a pre-paid Visa card which means that I never have a balance on it more than a few dollars after making a purchase and the only time that I put money on it is right before I am going to use it
Any attempts to use it without any money actually being put on the card are denied and even if I had a regular credit card-one pf my mistakes in life was always paying cash for everything so I have no credit-I doubt that I would use it on-line with all of the theft going on
Either on-line scammers are more active or I am becoming super aware of them due to this and the problem that I had with my last gecko purchase and I think that I am going to take a rest from purchasing anything on-line for a while
The most annoying thing is that It took most of the day to get this all figured out and I can't imagine the horror of having your identity stolen and the mess that you would have to wade through with that
Well-I'm off to feed the geckos
I hope that everyone has a good night and keep an eye on your on-line accounts
These days it seems that there are plenty pf people doing just about anything that they can to get over on you
Sandy
