Ebay Warning!
11-16-2006 | 01:26 AM
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Ebay Warning!
I got this from the streetcommodores.com.au forums so anyone doubting the authenticity check there and have a look at the number of members shocked at having this happen to them.
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Email mentioned in above quote;
Judging from what i've seen on the street commodores site this seems pretty common so it may be a good idea for you all to check the third party preferences in your ebay acount.
Go to My Account -> Preferences -> General Preferences -> Third Party Authorizations, then select any unauthorised sellers there and click Revoke Authorization.
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anyone with an account on ebay should check this out,someone named auctionhouse had set themselves up as 3rd party on my account without my permission please guys and gals look into it,i got this in an email
found out that someone had placed a 'third party authorisation' on my account and was using it to buy items off ebay without my say so. they were basically using my ID to send other sellers emails and asking them to reply to an alternative email address (their own). I wouldn't have known except I was randomly checking my preferences and under the third party authorisations there was a name! I emailed ebay and I have had to change my password with them and also my passwords to paypal and my email account - frightening. I would tell everyone to check under third party authorisations in your preferences and if there is a name there you don't recognise check it off and email ebay immediately - I have said to them they should at least send the seller an email when a third party authorisation is requested so this can't happen
Go to My Account -> Preferences -> General Preferences -> Third Party Authorizations, then select any unauthorised sellers there and click Revoke Authorization.
11-16-2006 | 03:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Boony
i didnt even know that u could get 3rd parties,thx very much for the warning.
Matt
Matt
11-16-2006 | 01:58 PM
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hey .. thanks for this tip.
I just checked my acct and I had not one but TWO Third Party Authorisation. WTF!?
Immediately revoked them.
1. AuctionBlox.com ( created 15-Oct-06)
2. AuctionWorks ( created 27-Oct-06)
Ebay should at least notify the account owner whenever a Third Party authorisation is set up. This is absurd.
What happens next?
Do we have to regularly check our accounts to ensure no new 3rd party authorisation is created without our knowledge?
I just checked my acct and I had not one but TWO Third Party Authorisation. WTF!?
Immediately revoked them.
1. AuctionBlox.com ( created 15-Oct-06)
2. AuctionWorks ( created 27-Oct-06)
Ebay should at least notify the account owner whenever a Third Party authorisation is set up. This is absurd.
What happens next?
Do we have to regularly check our accounts to ensure no new 3rd party authorisation is created without our knowledge?
