topic Re: fake account in same name twice in Selling

fake account in same name twice

thehobbyiest — Fri, 02 May 2014 05:55:54 GMT

Ebay have now opened a fake acount in my mothers name twice in 18 months. The first time there was also a paypal account. as of today we have only recieved the second ebay collection from ARL.

Why are they stupid enough to do this.

It stresses my elderly mother out and i would think, stresses the poor seller who was conned.

Any answers?

Re: fake account in same name twice

cherry*135 — Fri, 02 May 2014 06:28:08 GMT

Do you mean ebay allowed an unknown person to fraudulently open an eBay account in your mothers name? ( for the second time).

Re: fake account in same name twice

amxsuperstores — Fri, 02 May 2014 07:04:03 GMT

The only logical explanation is that eBay themselves are personally attacking your mother.

Re: fake account in same name twice

*crikey*mate* — Fri, 02 May 2014 07:05:52 GMT

or, a scammer somehow got her personal information and is using it to carrty out their scams....

i think its a bit rich to implicate ebay as being complicit.

Re: fake account in same name twice

12advan — Fri, 02 May 2014 07:06:50 GMT

I have an account with paypal and the same thing happend. I found that my wife had an account with paypal when no one open an account for her.

Re: fake account in same name twice

go-tazz — Fri, 02 May 2014 07:36:10 GMT

Those account can only be started if the scammer has the details to do so.

In each case the scammer would have sent a phishing Email to the person and that person would have given

the scammer the sensitive information needed to open an account.

They generally ask them to log into an account to verify details.

They know the Email address is live as the person clicked on the link embedded in the Email or downloaded

Malware.

In the case of the account being hijacked a second times it definitely points to a Keylogger or Trojan so you

need to:

Watch out for more spoof or phishing emails you may get and as a precaution ,run all your spy ware and virus protection and change your passwords.

Re: fake account in same name twice

thehobbyiest — Fri, 09 May 2014 07:47:46 GMT

Thanks for your reply's.

They do not have my mothers full name,date of birth or email account or bank account.

The only time we heard about these accounts was a snail mail collection agency notice.

Re: fake account in same name twice

2106greencat — Fri, 09 May 2014 08:36:01 GMT

@thehobbyiest wrote:
Ebay have now opened a fake acount in my mothers name twice in 18 months. The first time there was also a paypal account. as of today we have only recieved the second ebay collection from ARL.
Why are they stupid enough to do this.
It stresses my elderly mother out and i would think, stresses the poor seller who was conned.
Any answers?

today we have only recieved the second ebay collection from ARL.

ARL - Australian Receivers Limited - is not a registered company - Paypal DO NOT use collection agencies, neither do eBay - they simply close or suspend your account.

Your account has not been accessed, you have simply recieved a scam email from someone hoping you are foolish enough to reply and then they will give you bank details so you can pay what you owe.

Ignore it - delete it !

Re: fake account in same name twice

lyndal1838 — Fri, 09 May 2014 09:02:22 GMT

Paypal and ebay DO use collection agencies if you owe them money and do not/will not pay.

Re: fake account in same name twice

lyndal1838 — Fri, 09 May 2014 09:23:22 GMT

Greencat, the information you have given is irresponsible to say the least

Ebay and paypal do use collection agencies if and when necessary.

And ARL is definitely a registered collection agency with memberships of many of the collection industry associations.

The OP would be well advised to communicate with them, not delete and ignore the emails.

There could well be a scam involved if accounts have been opened in her Mother's name with ebay and paypal, but that needs to be sorted out with ebay and paypal first.....a collection agency only tries to collect what is owing to their clients. They are not in the business of verifying whether those amounts are from legitimate accounts.

Re: fake account in same name twice

2106greencat — Fri, 09 May 2014 09:46:25 GMT

Okay - OP - contact the emailer and pay them.

Jeez Lyndal, get off your high horse and read the other threads that relate to this scam.

I spoke to eBay & Paypal and NO they DO NOT use ARL in these matters - what ARL do have is a website that makes it very easy to copy 'legit' looking documents for the scammers.

Re: fake account in same name twice

iamanark — Fri, 09 May 2014 22:40:45 GMT

Greencat is never wrong

Re: fake account in same name twice

2106greencat — Fri, 09 May 2014 23:16:44 GMT

Whoa - what on earth have I ever done to you ?

If this is retaliatory because I was rude on another thread - go and check my reply to you - it was NOT my response to the OP over there you reacted to, it was another poster.

To clarify - ARL is (as Lyn said) a registered company - the letter a friend of mine received was from ARL - Aust Receivables Limited - this is how I knew it was fake as ARL is Aus Recoveries Limited - sorry for any upset caused.

*shakes head*

Oh and I can admit - I am often 'wrong' but there are ways to point out errors without being snotty about it.

Re: fake account in same name twice

tstore — Sat, 10 May 2014 03:07:26 GMT

Entity name: AUSTRALIAN RECEIVABLES LTD
ABN status: Active from 01 Jan 2003
Entity type: Australian Public Company
Goods & Services Tax (GST): Registered from 01 Jan 2003
Main business location: VIC 3141

They are a real company