SHOCKED. How did my accounts get linked?? Experienced user

[agent006140]

Originally Posted by joanna4051

"hat"? Can you clarify what may have triggered the manual review?

some one reported you,or bot picks up some evidence these accounts are linked but not strong enough to shut them down.so a human will look further

[agent006140]

juggling 16 accounts on one piece of hardware-mac,modem,router ,may be you get careless once,or you just too tired and forget to do something,and you said Ebay called you on your private phone?
Folks always said Ebay and Paypal cant see the name on the bank accounts,if they want to,they can.

[joanna4051]

Considering some of the accounts were never used and did not have bank acct link, that's unlikely the issue.

As much as I don;t want to believe it and have to re-learn the whole process, the most feasible answer so far seems to be the canvas fingerprinting. Any solution suggestions appreciated! Seems to be a debate re: spoofing vs blocking and what add ons to use.

[Canvas]

Originally Posted by joanna4051

Considering some of the accounts were never used and did not have bank acct link, that's unlikely the issue.

As much as I don;t want to believe it and have to re-learn the whole process, the most feasible answer so far seems to be the canvas fingerprinting. Any solution suggestions appreciated! Seems to be a debate re: spoofing vs blocking and what add ons to use.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...canvasblocker/
addon for firefox
Once installed click on the icon and settings then tick expert mode
and set faking to persistent and tick across all domains
That will spoof one new persistent fingerprint

The default settings change fingerprint every http request which is bad and can easily be detected

Do this for each user account and you should be fine no need to buy 16 computers

[joanna4051]

Originally Posted by agent006140

OP is just begging for something like this to happen,
how can one person with one phone keep track of 16 ebay accounts,multiple paypal accounts,gmail accounts ,return address,shipping address,bank accounts,etc.
And they are all stealth accounts,one slip and the 'bot' will catch it.
OP said a few Ebay accounts are used to sell personal item,so what about the rest?
do you really need ten or more accounts to sell?
(I guess the reason behind it -since these are stealth accounts,spread sales among different accounts to keep them under $20k/200 transactions?

(BINGO).

I don't keep track of all my accounts and related information on my phone. I used the iPhone's email app to check messages from each eBay account.

[agent006140]

so did you finally find out what caused all your 16 accounts pulled?

[triplex]

As a computer engineer I might have another answer.

- Even if you reboot your modem over and over again you will have just some IP C class, but not all. Like somebody from New York will not get the same IPs somebody from Chicago will get. Why ? Routers! ISP have routers too. Each IP sets are delivered to a given router. There is a stupid approach to send the same data to 100 routers , so they have routers on each locations. Sometimes they might use IPs like 10.1.1.1 to router the traffic, and a whole state can share the same IP., but it's more comon for Cellphone Networks then for ADSL or whatever.

-There are a lot of malware because of Windows exploits (I know this guy used MAC)

-People even sell onlines hacked Windows machines. You log into one, and you do whatever you want.

-There are also a lot of BOTNETS


Now... those connections, because contain so many old Windows computer (laptops, desktop computers) have a lot of infected computers.

Somebody or a BOTnet from your network made some ebay frauds, and ebay banned all IPs.

from my home connection I can not setup an Adroid phone ... not create an Gmai , i get instant banned, i can't create a facebook account.

Why? A lot of windows machines. But on cellphone network is working. Why the cellphone network is much more clean!? Android is based on LINUX. And it's secured,: you can only install apps from Google Play where they are checked by viruses and so on. (unless you do some crazy thing, root your phone, bla ba bla)

[Uniq]

Hope you found the right answer, waiting your reply!

[H4ck]

Originally Posted by joanna4051

Each account had different information, separate prepaid t-mobile phone number, all IP's were tracked and never used the same one. I was using the method of a cable modem and separate router, changing MAC to get new IP on xfinity.

this is it here.....

[tanashway]

Originally Posted by H4ck

this is it here.....

So instead of doing that she should of used 4G method?

[RigorAndMonroe]

Originally Posted by tanashway

So instead of doing that she should of used 4G method?

4G or nothing. I don't even trust VPNs for stealthing at this point. Residential IPs are the way to go.

[joanna4051]

Originally Posted by Uniq

Hope you found the right answer, waiting your reply!

Sorry for the delayed response. School took over my life for a bit.

I did not but the 4G suggestion is something I'll look into now that I have time to get back to it all! Thank you all so much for all the support.