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Hi All,
My Mum got a phone call yesterday regarding her eBay account. She was a little dubious and told them zip (I am told). Last night/this morning around 03:00 am I tried to log in to my account according to email this am. I am now informed I should change my password. So I try to and it wont accept my password so I can't change my password. This leads me to conclude a) I am a dozy git, who can't remember his password (likely) or b) someone is trying to make off with my eBay account. Is there a human I can talk to... 
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If you can automatically log in to FleaBay, then disconnect your PayPal account from it - this will be the bit they are after, not the "what I have bought" list. Or you can contact Paypal and they will lock the account for you until you are sure it's secure.
If you use Chrome to remember your passwords, you can access them if you go to "Settings", "Autofill", and enter your Google password.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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disconnect PayPal...why didn't I think of that... and done!
modified 24-Sep-19 5:17am.
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glennPattonWork wrote: I am now informed I should change my password. So I try to
Please tell me you didn't do this via a link in the email?
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I'm not that stoopid! 
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Hi glennPattonWork,
My name is Sander from eBay account retreival.
To retrieve you're ebay account we need your PayPal, so please send me your username and password.
we will send you email with new password.
I am sure we can work this out for you.
Best,
Sander
CEO eBay account retrieval
(Don't actually do this.)
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Your English is far too good to be taken seriously as a scammer. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Argh, I made some spelling errors on purpose, but to no avail! 
So yu sent me paypal usernaam and paswort?
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glennPattonWork wrote: Is there a human I can talk to
Talk to me...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Ummm, Okay, any particular subject or the fact some scally is trying to use my eBay account...
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Was just reading an article on from the Daily News on The Internet Relies on People Working for Free, and talks about cURL. Was curious what that was so googled it.
I was reading c U R L.
So did not click straight away this was curl, which i read a one word.
Don't know if this more related with dyslexia differences, or how I use the shape of words for remembering, which gets me confused when I spell a word correctly, know it is spelt correctly, but because it is either all lower case or has a first letter capital I just stare in confusion why the word looks wrong.
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No most humans are Typoglycemic and it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
Scientiæ de conservata veritate.
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Most the of time, the words don't have to be in the the right order either.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well,
The link is to Matt Davis who attacks the idea and demonstrates that it's possible to construct sentences that can can have dual meanings using the first/last letter rule. But there is certainly some truth to the idea.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
Scientiæ de conservata veritate.
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I see what you you did there
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Hmmm,
Was it my convoluted Latin? 
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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No, I was commenting on Griff's "Most the of time" and "the the" that he slipped into his reply...
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Griff,
I must know... was this in reference to the previous latin motto in my signature?
Thanks,
-David Delaune
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No, why?
I don't remember your previous sig - or that much Latin either, it's been a lot of years - what was it?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well,
Nevermind then. It was a motto related to preserving all truth and knowledge. I was hoping your Latin was better than mine and could correct any grammatical mistake in my translations.
Btw are you ever going to remove @DalekDave from your sig?
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Maybe. Who can tell?
If he comes back and requests it, maybe - or if Chris gets fed up with sending the emails! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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"tgyopmicleyc" ... hmm, not srue abuot taht. Oh, and there's a spelling error in "important" 
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I would read it as c URL, and wonder what the 'c' stood for in the context of Uniform Resource Locators
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I read it the same way, but didn't wonder - I just said to myself: "Oh, so it is implemented in C. Fair enough."
I've been working among Python programmers for too long. I never saw any other group of programmers so eager to tout their implementation language. Fortran programmers never named their applications "forSomething", Pascal programmers didn't call them "pasMyApp" or Cobol programmers "cobSolution". Well, occasionally it might happen, but for 99,9% of the solutions, the application name was some indication of the problem it solved or some product marketing name - not the name of the implementation tool. But Python programmers do that. To such a degree that I have come into the habit of stripping off any prefix that matches a common programming language name.
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