What's a secure password?
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The other day I started getting eBay messages in reply to messages I had supposedly sent out. The messages sent under my name claimed to be from a company exporting electronic equipment from China, complete with email address (not mine) and a phone number. I sent a couple of messages to those who'd contacted me telling them that the messages were a scam and weren't from me. (Interestingly, none of them were abusive at all; one of them told me the prices were too steep, but there were no F words or insults.)
Anyway, I clicked on one of the messages in my Sent folder, and tried to click the "report this" button. I typed out a message saying that this message, and several others like it, had been sent under my name, but the system refused to accept the report, as the report and the offending message were under the same ID, i.e. I can't report myself. So I had to search for an email address, and after clicking the usual "contact us" link, I ended up sending a message to eBay through some other channel, which I can't remember (and I didn't get a saved copy; perhaps it was through an eBay web forum, perhaps through Yahoo mail), with a copy of the dodgy ad and a notice that I'd be changing my password, which I did.