Beware of New eBay Shipping-Label Fraud

by: Moonwishes

Why is anyone using ebay/PP to print their postage. How much more money do you want to hand over to them so that they can screw you? Try places like endicia, stamps, etc. for your postage and take away anything that ebay can profit from even a little.

by: Basset

Now don’t nobody laugh. I’ve had minor issues with my main computer I use for eBay & while in the shop, the guy fixing it, installed new security.

Well, guess what the new security software thinks is malicious! eBay’s label system. Although I can print labels just fine on my back-up computers, the new security software on my main laptop says: “No, unh-uh – We are NOT going THERE!”.  The computer fixer guy tried fixing it remotely, No dice! Today I took it back to him to work on face to screen. Still working on it. Makes ya wonder!

by: Tula

I wonder if it's possible to disable shipping label printing on our accounts? Knowing eBay, I doubt it, but this would be a useful feature to have.

by: Tiffee Jasso

To begin with the Post Office has a stop package service. Their is also the Customs people to notify of stolen I.D. and illegal merchandise. Since the money was removed from your Paypal account that is where you need to file a fraud complaint against Ebay who took the money.  

by: rifshen

I am the victim who opened this forum. Now the latest:
Ina Steiner of AB contacted Ryan Moore at eBay Public Relations and then things started rolling on ebay. They accepted breach, secured my account 8 days after the incident and transferred all fraudulant transactions to the Paypal Dispute Resolution Center and now I guess, I have to wait for completion of their investigation.

In the meantime, I was tracking the progress of those packages which were submitted at 8 different USPS centers spread over the continental US. They have progressed only to the airports but none of them has so far left the country.

Responding to some of the bloggers here, let me clarify: I am not likely to fall victim to phishing emails. I have enough experience to trash them immediately. This must have been a more sophisticated intrusion.

Trusted ebay sellers receive a deep discount of nearly 30% on dmoestic priority mail shipping when they print their labels through ebay, which is far more than the standard 5%. You don't get much if your package is is just one pound but over that weight, it's quite tempting to use ebay even if you are a subscriber of stamps.com, endicia etc.

I wasn't the only victim of this fraud. One other victim has just posted before me. I have seen a couple more on an ebay forum, all victimized during the same period.

Salute the power of the electronic media and thank both Ina Steiner and Ryan Moore.

by: Philip Cohen

@rifshen

Gee, do you think that you could get Ryan Moore to do something about the blatant shill bidding fraud being committed by eBay seller, eDropOff, and the commercial shill bidding ring in which she is involved, both of which are now being knowingly aided and abetted by eBay by eBay’s taking of no action in this blatant, rampant, shill bidding matter.

Or, Could you post Ryan Moore’s contact details, please.

eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking

by: trickstunt

Glad you got some positive resolution and I hope the other victims do to.

But ebay still gets a failing grade, for spontaneously, automatically blaming the victims, for not having any type of public announcement, and for not handling similar/same type of cases equally.

How many more victims will be blamed? I suspect that anyone who doesn't "make noise" or have some liaison for inside contact will be out of luck.

Maybe some paid forum trolls can call them liars and thieves and stalked the way other victims/critics have been?

Is ebay/paypal prepared to accept that they are compromised and make a statement? If not, their words and deeds aren't worth jack squat.

And for anyone concerned about visiting unsafe urls, check google safe browsing tool for www.ebay.com. It still shows as having malware, trojans and drive by downloads. Ha!

http://bit.ly/nxPGZe

by: trickstunt

One last thing, did they offer any explanation as to how your account was accessed?

by: Bad Hair Day

@grandma_fish
''I never used eBay to print my shipping labels,I always printed directly through PayPal. But I think if you print them through eBay, it's automatically linked to your PayPal account and I don't think you get prompted for a PayPal password. Am I correct?''
Yes, you are correct grandma_fish! I have always printed my shipping labels through PayPal and have never had a problem. I just recently started printing them through eBay because it was easier...one less step of having to log in to my PayPal account. I WILL NOT be printing my labels through eBay in the future thanks to the OP!

by: rifshen

@Moonwishes: I have a stamps.com account and that's where I do my batch printing of shipping labels. I use eBay shipping only for those shipping labels where I get a deep discount of 30%.

@trickstunt,  I do not have contact details of any eBay official. This contact was made by AB.

by: nikkor

You can search for scammer userid's and emails on www.ruscammer.com, like the current ongoing with prebbiebeadman

by: Carol

This is the first time I've heard of a deep discount of 30% on priority packages of over 1# if printed through ebay.

Can someone explain if this applies to all sellers, TRS only, if you have to sign up for it or qualify in some other way???

by: Nofraud18

Ok wtf is going on here! After being taken for over 1,700 as a seller only shipping in the u.s.! I have had international shipping labels printed for hundreds of dollars for the same items I sold the month before. I changed my wifi account and every single account I have used to sell anything on the 19th of sept 2012. And yet eBay still let these sleaze balls  purchase more shipping labels. Thank goodness because I reported it or my bank also that they refused it and reported it to me right away! I am hearing more and more of this on several sites. EBay tried to tell me I must have been in Russia or Canada printing labels, which I told them they were no help at all,. I filed a complaint with PayPal who I found out that eBay now ownes bagan to refund me my money back but still 700 short. No more shipping thru eBay, rather do it directly! But where does it stop?? How can I trust to sell with them again? Thanks to my bank who contacted me and refused their Paypal transaction, how many others have been ripped off without the knowledge of how to fight back! Where does it stop??

by: permacrisis

It was probably a keylogger. Always assume there's one installed, and do the following for a shark-infested login:

When typing passwords, type them out of order.

1. Set your mouse pointer at the start of the text entry field. (Leave it there for the remainder of this procedure.)

2. Type the LAST part of your password.

3. Click the mouse button. This will put the cursor back to the home position.

(DONT use the Home, arrow keys, or any keys. They can read off your keyboard but they can't see the screen.)

4. Type the MIDDLE part of the password.

5. Click the mouse button again.

6. Type the FIRST part of your password.

7. Click 'Submit'-  DONT hit enter.


Break it up the same way every time. If you break your password up the same way each time, they will think that the scrambled version is really your password. If you keep doing it differently,   then eventually the bad guys will put 2 + 2 together, and reconstruct your actual password.

Naturally, you should clean out your computer, but this works in a jam.

by: vanilaise

Both my friend and I have been victim to this fraud in the last week!!!!... I can not figure out WHat the scam is.. they go into your account and print a label from an item you sold last week, and looks like I sent an International Shipping label to the previous party but says ''Russian Federation'' under the persons address in New jersey... I told Ebay they better escalate this ASAP!

by: gr8Digz

I was just hit a week ago, they printed 32 labels for over $2700. I immediately voided the labels and disputed the transactions in Paypal but neither Ebay or Paypal are helpful. I found a link to a billing agreement (that I  didn't even know I had) in Paypal under the postage detals, click on it to end the billing agreement between Ebay and USPS. Change your passwords. There is no help from Ebay or Paypal and USPS moves very slowly so I would recommend contacting the bank that is your backup funding source. They'll do a real investigation. I'm still trying to figure out how the got my info. MalwareBytes found a trojan that Norton missed, I'm guessing that was it. It's so obviously fraud, Ebay needs to take a more active stand in preventing this. http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Trust-Safety-Safe/Hacker-Used-My/5200
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by: Hollister530

This happend to me yesterday. They are hacking into eBay accounts and purchasing shipping labels so they can cash them in for the refund. Pay pal was ok to deal with but ebay didn't seem to care at all.