The online auctioneer eBay has admitted that personal accounts are being hijacked by fraudsters, but claim it is the responsibility of eBay users themselves to prevent this.

Criminals are obtaining the secret passwords of eBay subscribers and using their sites to conduct bogus auctions for non existent goods.

In a growing number of cases, would be buyers on the UK’s most used website are paying thousands of pounds to apparently reputable sellers after winning auctions on the site, only to find out they had been dealing with criminals.

In an interview with Radio Five Live, eBay would not reveal exactly how many accounts had been hijacked.

“It is just not a number we give out as a business. We consider it to be business sensitive for various reasons,” said Gareth Griffiths, head of trust and safety for eBay.

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Posted: 12|29|05 at 9:04 am. Filed under: UK News.