e Bay Q-should I be worried?

E Bay have replied (very fast) with a astandard email saying that is was a spoof email. It says to check in my e Bay to see if the message shows up there and it doesn't.
Weird!

I'd keep a close eye on it though.
Last year, I couldn't log into my hotmail account which was linked to my some auction site account. The password didn't work.
I got in with the secret question and there was an email from some auction site saying thank you for changing your password. If it wasn't you that changed it, please contact us.
I contacted them immediately and changed my password back.
Next morning, I tried to log into hotmail again. I couldn't. Once again, I got in using my secret question only to discover that there were loads of emails from some auction site. Some were from sellers saying things like "It clearly states we don't sell to Nigeria - stop bidding on our item" (I am UK based so this was puzzling) and lots were items won messages. It looked like - in my sleep - I'd managed to bid on over £14000 worth of computer equipment.
I managed to get into my some auction site account although the password had been changed. My settings had all been changed too - the ship to address as - you've guessed it - in Nigeria.
Fortunately the person hadn't managed to log into my Paypal account and he hadn't managed to pay for any of the stuff so presumably he got nothing from it.
It took a lot of effort and a lot of hassle to get my some auction site account back and my hotmail account back and a lot of courage before I dared to use internet banking, paypal and some auction site!

Your account hasn't been hacked. It's a fairly standard spoof email. The main thing is to never reply (obviously you did but you did it through the e*ay site didn't you?). And never ever click any links.


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What BWC said.
I get loads of spoof *bay mail.
Never ever click a link from your email. Always go through *bay off your browser bar.
If it isnt in your *bay messages it is a spoof.

Bernie?

Thanks guys. No, I didn't click any links in the message, did everything through the site. I'll keep a check on it anyway though.