The Flash cookie based phone verficiation system - this is what happens
Some people have been getting flustered about not being in, having the phone number, etc, when they are using a new PC or have cleared their flash cookies.
Well, it's actually much more relaxed than it seems.
When the flash cookie is cleared, so ebay doesn't recognise your computer, you can login fine, and the do the general things in my eBay. But when you go to list, this is when the verification comes in.
One thing that's important, is the phone call is not random. As with the phone verification to setup the account, you can specify when to receive the call.
What's more, you can specify the phone number on your account that you want to use, to verify your account. So if you've added a mobile/cell as a secondary number (as they reccommend), you can select them to ring you on this.
However, it doesn't end their. It ALSO gives you the option to add another phone number, and verify your call on that number. All this requires, is to answer the security questions on your account, and then you can add the new number and veryify this.
What's more, is the call is AUTOMATED. As with the account creation phone call.
But, it's a little odd to me. Because, eBay are supposedly doing this to up the security measures on accounts. But looking at this process, the only thing the call pivots on, is knowing the secuirty question. Any random person could hack into, or buy your account, answer the secuirty question (if they knew it), and a mobile, and verify they account. So, why not just ask for the security question instead? Surely the phone call is just extra hastle?
And also, you can still change the security questions in My Ebay without having to give the answers to the old secuirty questions. So surely, someone could hack the account, change the security question, go to list an item, answer the security question, and then answer the call? Thus defeating the whole point in this exercise?
I don't know, but this sytem does seem a little flawed if you ask me.
But thought I would just share some of the ins and outs of the system.
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