The last four consecutive times I've logged onto ebay I've received an email that a new device has logged into my account. The email tells me the location of the login was a hundred miles away and the user was using Apple OSX and a marginally older version of Safari. Phishing clearly except for a few points-
1 it has only happened when I have actually logged on
2 the password reset url looks genuine
3 Centralops.net also misrepresents my operating system as Apple OSX (I am using Apple OS 14.6.1 so the error is most likely lazy coding by Apple) and misrepresents my version of Safari in the same way that ebay does (see my coding comment).
BUT Centralops correctly tells me my location.
AND I have not emptied my cookie cache for months so there should be a shedload of ebay cookies mapping the regularity of my visits using this computer.
So Ebay are reading what my browser shows, failing to spot their own cookies and making up my location; causing me to waste my time password changing and writing this, and wasting your time by causing me to post this that some of you will read.
Has anybody else had spurious reports of unknown computers accessing their accounts?
Could it be eBay.uk's way of encouraging their customers to change old passwords?
Any ideas?
Ta
Frank
