Ebay - Warning

Ebay - WARNING

Written by Andy Watkins - Editor

I need to share with our readers about one of our members experience recently with ebay. Owner of several web sites and ecommerce stores was shocked today when a security issue occurred with Ebay and once he reported it Ebay officials seemed not to care. He listed a few products and then they removed for an unauthorized reasons. Now that's the problem...here's the major warning he came across. He decided to contact Ebay and use the live chat. A representative named Rick appeared online to answer his questions. After hearing his concerns he decided to ask a lot of account information, once that was over he then asked a very upsetting request. Rick asked our member for a copy of his Drivers License, Social Security card and a copy of his utility bill...even after verfiying the account information. He gave our member a toll free number and our member decided to look into where this number actually was pointed and he found out that it was ending up in India. So the warning is clear...DO NOT give information to employees at EBAY that could be used for other reasons...it's just not worth it. EBay officials don't seem to care and obviously their own staff doesn't seem to have a problem.

Help us help our member and if you use Ebay share your disappoint with their security. Only when we share our views as consumers will products and services improve.