It is not stored as a cookie and it is on your computer not the ebay computer. See my other email on this subject. On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:37:20 -0400, phonofolks at aol.com wrote: >I am surprised that ebay has not tightened up on their seciurity network to prevent anyone from obtaining your personal ebay password. Could they develop a software that would automatically delete the cookies that house the password in your computer or form their website? I am sure something could be done, but then again it may cost ebay lots of money to invest in such a precaution. I would hate to see them dip into their millions of dollars in revenues and profits to help their fellow customers. >Rick >-----Original Message----- >From: Aph4990 at aol.com >To: phono-l at oldcrank.org >Sent: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 2:48 pm >Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Record Price for Edison Army-Navy?? > >In a message dated 10/24/2007 10:58:29 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, >Bruce78rpm at comcast.net writes: >No, I get them all the time, but being the naturally suspicious fellow that >I am, I have never fallen for one of them, and send them immediately to >Spoof at ebay.com , so I can't imagine in this day and age of crooks, thieves, >and con artists on the internet, that anyone in their right mind falls for >that CRAP!! and wondered whether there was another way that these hijackers >were lifting peoples passwords. >Bruce >Bruce, I had my eBay identity AND password hijacked recently and someone >used it to put a bunch of Mercedes, Jaguars and Rovers up on eBay for sale by >......me! I still haven't figured out how they would benefit from this. But >I was told by eBay that you don't even have to click on the links given on >the phishing site for them to find your password. You just have to OPEN a >phishing email for them to gain that information. I certainly don't understand >how they can do that. I'm opening fewer emails now! >---Art Heller >************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >________________________________________________________________________ >Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org