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40 accounts down in 4 days.
 

Has anybody else had This happen? I lost around 20 a couple days ago & around 20 today. Many of these have not been used in months. I really don't know what could have caused this. Some accounts where 3 years old.

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Were there any similarities? like creation dates, VCC or Gift Cards...etc?

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do you use different user accounts or do you use portable?

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Some where created same time. I used gift cards to create accounts.Some had banks attached but most did not.

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Ive had this happen when the accounts are not 60% or higher.

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Holy Hell 40 accounts! This is not good looks like the ebay's ban hammer is coming around again! I think I have lost only 4 accounts since around 2009.

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I'll ask again have you used different user accounts?

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Let's not jump to conclusions without knowing the full setup and use of what info/services...

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Yes I use all separate user accounts. Windows 8. Firefox browser. Cellular Internet device.

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I'm just assuming who knows! I just know there's a lot of people that have been losing their accounts lately lucky enough I have been fine.

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Dont steal rsot's thunder.

:nono:

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sounds like a flash problem to me.

By the way were they all administrator user accounts?

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I would never try to steal the Almighty RSOT'S thunder :hail:

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I got lightning as back up - no worries :FF: :focus:

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when i make my user acc on my pc i make all of the ebay ones limited and don't give them adman rights. because i see ebay is trying to install a DLL files. when you make your user acc on your computer don't give them adman rights. make the acc limited. i am using windows xp. this is just my 2 cents. i think the acc are stronger on an older os. i could be wrong but thats just how i feel. that really sux you lost 40 acc so sorry to hear that ebay sux .

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Since when does EBay try to install DLL files?

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they have been doing this @ the begin of 2008. if you use the Firefox browse a pop p will say trying to install dll file. i for got the name of this file. i goggled it and it is a tracking file. it will track your acc.

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just click don't install or just click the x button when it pops up. i have not saw this is any other web bowers then firefox. that why i said to do this. when i make my user acc on my pc i make all of the ebay ones limited and don't give them adman rights.

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What's the file called?

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I have NEVER had ebay try to install anything like that on my computer and I use Firefox. Are you sure you dont have a virus?

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same. The only thing that has ever popped up on an account was a warning that the site needs to use cookies.

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Are you talking about Silverlight asking to run? That always pops up for me on eb and I usually dont click anything, just login and it disappears.

Here's the link for flash object privacy (paypal's banner logo and eb's main page)
Adobe - Flash Player : Settings Manager - Global Privacy Settings Panel
The second from left tab is what you want, folder with down arrow. Uncheck Allow third-party Flash content to store data on your computer.

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Take a screenshot if you can next time. Honestly sounds like you just have spyware of some sort.

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I got the same little box on one of my acc couple days ago .orange /goldish bar pops up across the bottom of screen says run save or cancel and it was a request for me to download something from ebay I just hit cancel ..

At the time I had this happen I was submitting a revision on a listing hit the submit button popped up an error says for me to put in the shipping carrier and that's when the little download box popped it . It was a dill. file I just cancel and went back to the listing and all the info for the shipping was blank had to fill it out again. usps free shipping handling time 1 day . then accepted the changes without error . I should have put more thought in this .. It was on a no risk item and a good clean account no foo foo or anything that would cause a problem so I wasn't worried . But now I think about it wonder what that attempt was about

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Would also advise looking into VMware for the future, also were you noting all ips to make sure no duplicates?

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yep all ip tracked and was a harmless account no risk items low cost ..

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my user acc are all clean and everything. if i see this again i will take a pic of it. this is a tracking file i dont have the name of this .dll file if i see it again i will come back and say the name of it.

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i found the name of the dll trying to install on my pc here it is

eBayISAPI.dll

i looked this up back in the day this is a tracking dll

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This is very interesting.

Do we have any computer/tech experts in house that can offer commentary on this file type?

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I call it a "Sweep"..... this happens usually once a year... about a year and 2 months ago i lost 13 accounts in one day.... yesterday i lost 5 accounts.... once a year Ebay does a sweep and they take down numerous accounts at once... then everything is smooth for about a year or so... until the next sweep..

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What? Why? What reason do they have to delete accounts like this?

What I mean is, what criteria do they use to mass delete these accounts? I know eBay does whatever they want on a whim, but there must be some criteria if one guys stealth goes down and another doesn't. What are the similarities? Are all phone #'s on the accounts working? Do you have access to the phones? Etc.

Can any other members confirm this information?

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Same problem man, 5 out of 8 of my accounts went down in the passed 7 days. I got 1 restored so far I'm working on getting others restored but it seems pretty hard and I don't know what to do, all of them came with a diffrent email from eBay that its restricted and the PayPal accounts are also limited

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Ody12, what were the similarities between the shut-down accounts?

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The only thing I could think of is it had something to with the credit cards.
They all expired this month 5/15.

I logged all my ips and used chrome portable for each account.
They were all selling different things but some in the same category.
Also 2 of these accounts had ein on it

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Are you sure you were using chrome portable properly, as I've seen many people get a ton of accounts linked by not using it the right way

Might want to look into using VMware instead

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I'm thinking may be this was the culprit.

Card all expire in the same month. Also, they expire this month....perhaps it's a good idea to update cards one month prior to expiration.

Keep in mind, this is just a theory---I'm just brain-storming. I'd love to hear the thoughts of more experienced stealth members on this situation.

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What do you mean by not using it properly? How can you not use it properly?
For each account I made a folder and installed the chrome portable in the folder. I don't think that the accounts were linked, I have been doing it like this for a few months without a problem.

1 of my accounts was linked but I knew it was linked from months ago because I screwed up, then when the account that it was linked to got restricted they restricted this one too, but I called them up and convinced them it was my only account and came up with an excuse why the 2 accounts had the same info, and they restored the account for me.

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Chrome portable is buggy is not set up properly.

I even use different browsers per account.

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Interesting theory about the expiry on card approaching.

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Thank you. Do you have any thoughts? You've been around here a long time, and I know you're quite experienced. Have you had any accounts wiped during the "sweeps" eBay allegedly runs? I'd love to hear the take from someone who's been running multiple accounts for years.