Over the last couple years I have bought a number of things on Ebay, but never sold anything there and have no plans to do so. So I was rather surprised to get several e-mails today confirming that I had listed items for sale there. My first thought was that they were from a spoof site, but then I signed on to Ebay and found they were in fact listed as being sold by me. The payment information gave a Paypal account that was not mine. Apparently somebody managed to list these under my name so if they were sold, I would be blamed for non-fulfillment, while the unfortunate buyer’s money would go to the crook.

I have no idea how this happened, but I immediately reported this to Ebay and cancelled all of the listings, in the process learning more about the seller side of the ‘Bay than I had planned to. I also changed both my Ebay and e-mail passwords and the security questions associated with them.