5 yrs ago, Mrs. Roboto had an interest in Wall Pockets.
I signed up on Ebay so she could view them. As the interest wained, we no longer visited Ebay. Now, out-of-the-blue, I am being beseiged with " you are the winning bid" and related junk. Alot of these communique’s are from Ebay-U.K…
I am forwarding all this crap to fraud at ebay requesting to have my account terminated. Links are useless and Ebay is oblivious to the fact that hackers are in their database. You would think someone there would Email me back.
Are you sure you’re contacting Ebay, and not some Ebay fan site, as you have been wont to do?
Why don’t you just log into ebay and close the account yourself?
Not that it’ll make any difference. Your email address may have been lifted from ebay (no-one needs to hack their database to do it, just a automated script to read previous auctions) or it might have been obtained from somewhere else. But it’s now out there in the Big Bumper Book of Addresses for Spammers. You’re going to get spam and faudulent email sent to it forever now, and not just about ebay.
I get occasional fraudulent eBay email, and I have never had an account at all. I’m not sure cancelling your account is going to do a bit of good. Changing your email is probably your only option.
It sucks.
Don’t blame eBay - those are most likely phishing emails. About six months ago, I went through a period of about three weeks when my mailbox was filled with fake notifications from eBay telling me I was the “winning bidder” and needed to click through to complete bids and sales, etc. You think it was annoying for you? I actively sell and buy on eBay. It drove me crazy, sorting out the shit from the real thing.
My advice to you is to go to eBay yourself and cancel your account using the links you find at the site (if you really want to cancel). Don’t hit the reply button on any more of the “eBay notices” that you are getting - whoever is doing the phishing has established you as a potential victim because you’ve been opening the mail (especially if it has graphics - spammers and phishers put images in their emails so they can tell when the pictures get served.) Stop replying to the mail - stop even opening it - and it will fade out and eventually stop.
Hacking? I doubt that. I doubt that seriously. Settle down and stop blaming ebay.
Before long you’ll probably also find that you’re being spammed with fraduluent emails that appear to be from legitimate banks and other organizations with whom you don’t even have an account.
Someone is just phishing. It has nothing to do with the organization that the spammers are pretending to be.
Before blaming eBay, I’d suggest not having your email address available on publically visible websites. Like this one, for example. Crawling through such pages is one of the main ways spammers get their address lists.
What is this book you speak of? Where can it be found? I wanna see if I’m in it!
Adam
What, you haven’t gotten the email notifications? 
Mr Roboto, if you would like a new Gmail email account, I (and many others on the board) have plenty of invites. Email me at revtim at gmail dot com, with an appropriate subject line, if you want one.
This is of course open to anybody who wants one, if there are anybody left who actually wants one but hasn’t got one yet.
Most of my eBay phishing emails come to the email address that I don’t have signed up on my eBay account. I hardly ever get them on my registered account.
I did, however, get a VERY bizarre email the other day. It was from a private individual (or seemed to be) with the same web-based domain name (after the @) as the account that gets phished, and it said (roughly), “I see you’ve been getting lots of email from eBay too. Are these real emails as I’m getting them and I’m not signed up for eBay.”
Now, obviously, I’m not going to respond to this email; I just thought it was a rather bizarre way to find out if that was a vaild email address - at least, that’s what I presume they’re doing.
Forward the emails to “spoof@eBay.com”. They log them and go after the spammers. I don’t bother with all of them anymore, as my spam blocker catches most of them and I sometimes get 2-3 a day, but it’s not a bad thing to do.
(Oh, and I have many many gmail invites, also, if anyone wants.)
You may need to be wished “good luck” in closing your eBay account if you made it on a different e-mail address than the one you have now. It took me almost a year and dozens of e-mail complaints to eBay to get them to close an account in my name that was made on an ISP that went belly-up. The e-mail address no longer existed. The ISP no longer existed. They kept telling me I could only close an account by writing in from the address where I started it. It seemed no amount of repeating myself, questioning their literacy skills or any other thing could get the message across to them that I could not write in from the orignal address because it did not exist!!!. Finally, somebody with half a brain must have read one of my exasperated pleas for competence on their part, and the account was closed. Morons.
This is a phishing technique that has been reported widely. Basically if you click on the link to reply your going to be nailed by spam at a minimum. Worst if you actually enter any of the information for the transaction your going to be targetted for identity theft. I do hope that you sent your email to eBay by opening a new message and not clicking on any of the links in the email.
J
I’ve gotten some e-mails supposedly from eBay stating that I need to log into my account and change something, or they’ll terminate my account. First suspicious thing I noticed was that the e-mail text was actually an image file. Second, that the URL linked was NOT an e-bay site (and it wasn’t working, either). I figure it’s some kind of fraud site, to steal info.
Image files alone shouldn’t be a red flag; most of the official crap I get from eBay is unreadable with my Gmail account until I “show images” in the email. But it’s always a good idea to float the mouse cursor over the links and make sure they really do point to eBay.
I’m pretty sure that eBay doesn’t send out emails with active links for things like that anyway. If there is a real problem with your account, they will ask you to log in at eBay and check your account status without providing a hot link for it in the email.
This is very likely a real person who is getting the same spam as you. The spammers often group their spam by domain, so you’re appearing in each other’s “To” headers in the same email. I bet if you look at your last phishing email (supposing it didn’t go straight in the trash) you’ll see their address on it next to yours.
They sound pretty clueless though.
I had a similar problem once with some spammy email list from a company I’d once had contact with. Except the way things were set up was all email to my old, no longer existing, address was automatically forwarded to my new address. So I was getting all this spammy email forwarded onto me, and they wouldn’t let me unsubscribe because I couldn’t reply from the original address. :mad:
Of course all complaints about it got returned with some irrelevant standard reply, showing that no-one with any brain was actually reading my emails.
So I set up my own forwarding. All emails from the list got automatically forwarded to the most important sounding person I could find on their company website, with a little explanation saying he’d stop getting this spam as soon as they stopped sending me it. Worked like a charm. 
People, you’re missing the forest for the trees here! I want to know what Wall Pockets are!
A wall pocket is a little vase for flowers or other decorations, usually ceramic, which is flat on one side so it can be mounted on a wall. Knock yourself out.