How does someone's eBay AND PayPal accounts get "hacked"?

[Yossarian]

someone did a buy it now on one of my items this morning and paypalled immediately. I got an email just now from the person saying that their "accounts were hacked" and they didn't bid on the item. I got a bid retraction notice from ebay and a funds investigation notice from paypal. wtf.

 

[her209]

They probably confirmed on one of those phish emails.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: her209
They probably confirmed on one of those phish emails.

Yup. Some moron probably woke up after sleeping for 5 years and found an email asking them to verify their account information.

 

[Yossarian]

how can I tell that this is a legit ebay email?

X-Account-Key: account3
X-UIDL: <200502230025.j1N0PcFj022043@mx16.sjc.ebay.com>
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <moreinfo@ebay.com>
Received: from mx16.sjc.ebay.com ([66.135.197.14]) by mta2.adelphia.net
(InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with ESMTP
id <20050223002539.HNP22694.mta2.adelphia.net@mx16.sjc.ebay.com>
for <xxx>;
Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:25:39 -0500
Received: from sj-cs020.sjc.ebay.com (sj-cs020.sjc.ebay.com [10.6.205.173])
by mx16.sjc.ebay.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id j1N0PcFj022043;
Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:25:39 -0800
Message-Id: <200502230025.j1N0PcFj022043@mx16.sjc.ebay.com>
To: xxx
From: moreinfo@ebay.com
X-eBay-MailTracker: -842150451.-842150451.0.-842150451
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Subject: Notice: Administrative Bid Cancellation
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:25:38 PST

 

[JoeKing]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
how can I tell that this is a legit ebay email?

X-Account-Key: account3
X-UIDL: <200502230025.j1N0PcFj022043@mx16.sjc.ebay.com>
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <moreinfo@ebay.com>
Received: from mx16.sjc.ebay.com ([66.135.197.14]) by mta2.adelphia.net
(InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with ESMTP
id <20050223002539.HNP22694.mta2.adelphia.net@mx16.sjc.ebay.com>
for <xxx>;
Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:25:39 -0500
Received: from sj-cs020.sjc.ebay.com (sj-cs020.sjc.ebay.com [10.6.205.173])
by mx16.sjc.ebay.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id j1N0PcFj022043;
Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:25:39 -0800
Message-Id: <200502230025.j1N0PcFj022043@mx16.sjc.ebay.com>
To: xxx
From: moreinfo@ebay.com
X-eBay-MailTracker: -842150451.-842150451.0.-842150451
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Subject: Notice: Administrative Bid Cancellation
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:25:38 PST

Forward it to ebay and ask?