There is a growing method of account theft by scammers who want to use YOUR account to steal money from eBay buyers.

They simply place a 'harvesting' listing for a valuable and attractive item and the only text in the listing is....

"For more information CLICK HERE" ... sometimes this is incorrectly spelt.

The CLICK HERE is a link which takes you to a FALSE eBay web page. Once you get to that page you will be asked to submit your username and password. At this point you have GIVEN your account details to a scammer. The next thing that will happen is that a normal eBay page, usually the home page of eBay.com will appear. Most people never realise they have just given their account details away.

Of course if you put FALSE information into the username and password boxes you will just make life difficult for the scammer. But I am not suggesting that you do that.

These 'harvesting' listings are listed under innocent accounts that have already been taken over by the scammer.

Two things you might do. Contact the real owner with the 'email seller' link or BETTER STILL contact eBay direct using the Live Chat service because often these scammers have taken over more than one account and I have seen up to 900 listings just by one scammer shared amongst 6 accounts.

The link for the live chat service is Account Theft Reporting . Go near the bottom of the eBay page for the actual link.

If the page tells you the wait time is a long time you can still type your information in the text box and send it. Below is a useful template

These accounts have been hijacked............... and are being used for scam listings.

The scammer is using this email address .............. ...     in the listing descriptions and I suggest you search eBay for more since these reports often get mismanaged and not ALL accounts are returned properly, so old reports of scams using this email address may, NOT have been acted upon.