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Mid-morning I received a text from the bank about a suspicious set of purchases on my credit card from my ebay account. I rang them back, and they cancelled three transactions of escalating value – a classic fraudster tactic – made from ebay today. I have two-factor authentication enabled, so to access ebay they must have hacked my gmail as well as they didn’t sent texts to my phone when buying, presumably counting on someone not checking their emails as often. Password changed on my email, and ebay. Ebay themselves don’t want to know it would appear as that is all they suggest doing. Bank are issuing new credit card and I’ve stopped all ebay transactions with them until I feel everything is safe again. Anything else I should be doing from those with a bit more knowledge of this.

I had a call from “BT OpenReach” telling me that my router had been compromised by hackers and I needed to take action to fix it. I told the guy I’d have to boot up my computer, which was old and slow, so it would take a while. I put the phone down for about five minutes and got on with what I’d been doing. When I picked the phone up I told him he was absolutely right and that the hackers had already got to my router because I didn’t have internet access. He asked me to reboot the router. I said it was in another room and I’d have to put the phone down while I sorted it out. About another five minutes passed before I got back to him and told him it was back up. I spent a few minutes playing dumb, misunderstanding his instructions. He gave me a web address and asked me to enter it as he spelled it out, letter by letter. Then he asked “What can you see?” I said “A picture of Bugs Bunny” He replied with something unintelligible, then said “You think you’re funny man, but I’m smarter than you”. » Continue Reading.

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