Personal Finance & Money Asked by Carrosive on March 6, 2021
Recently my eBay account was hacked and a fraudulent listing was made, it was for a mobile phone with a sale price of just £12 (about 5% of its RRP) with 10000 units. I received a notification to say that I’d made a sale, which set alarm bells ringing and I was able to remove the listing within a couple of hours of it being posted.
After securing my account I’m left puzzled, what exactly was the hacker tying to gain from this? Was this an attempt at some sort of scam, or simply mischief?
Checking the withdraw details I only saw my own. I was even invoiced to my own details to pay for the listing; although this has since been credited back.
A few paths to gain from this (sky's the limit for criminals):
Creating the problem and posing as the solution provider is a very common dynamic in scams. These crimes are often more convoluted than you'd think at face value, and the fraudulent transactions you see are just a means to identify a mark and start a dialogue with them. I've seen it many times. E.g., charging people to cancel orders on their Amazon account, charging people to remove pop-up warnings.
Correct answer by JJBee on March 6, 2021
Thanks to the useful comments I think I have an idea of what was going on here. My thoughts are that the listing was made with such an outrageous reduction in price in order to generate a big number of sales from people trying to grab a bargain. The payment details weren't added, but if I didn't take notice that my account was being misused and the listing gained traction (making a fair amount of money), the hacker could have easily added them at a point they believed that they would be able to pull this scam off.
Answered by Carrosive on March 6, 2021
Get help from others!
Recent Answers
Recent Questions
© 2024 TransWikia.com. All rights reserved. Sites we Love: PCI Database, UKBizDB, Menu Kuliner, Sharing RPP