Well, luckily I'm not out any money, and the inconvenience was only fairly minor.
I'm VERY disappointed that eBay aren't as good for the poor customers who get duped by these scammers. I mean, sure they were quick to shut these guys down on my account - but the next? The next one where someone hasn't used their eBay for a while and the email address registered to it
isn't their main one? What about them? And what about all the luckless buyers, why aren't they protected to the same degree and have their monies refunded right back? eBay and Paypal make a big deal about their fraud protection... and yet it seems to be sadly lacking.
Got some email nonsense today from eBay in response to the email I sent them about this person's unauthorised use of my credit card. Some RUBBISH automated response from them about how they put some other card NOT in my name onto my account, but not to worry *my* details are safe. This is completely false from what I can see - the emails I received from the system were about "new accounts" being set up "using your credit card details on file", NOT anything about adding new cards to my account. <sigh> I'm willing to chalk this one up to incompetence on eBay's part, rather than actual deception, but I'm not happy. They're CLEARLY aware of this scam and it's ilk, and I think not doing enough to protect account holders and buyers.
