Stay Protected from Phishing Attempts
Summary: seller_news_team warns against an increase in phishing emails targeting online shoppers and sellers, emphasizing the difficulty in identifying these attempts. They advise verifying links, avoiding inputting sensitive information on external sites, inspecting web addresses, and reporting suspicious emails to eBay. For further guidance, they recommend visiting eBay's help page on recognizing phishing attempts.
We're seeing an increase in phishing emails targeting online shoppers and sellers. Some of these emails are very difficult to identify as phishing attempts.
To continue to keep your account and information secure:
Verify links before clicking them.
Do not enter any sensitive or confidential information on external websites.
Always inspect the web address for any page asking you to input personal or sensitive information.
Do not grant anyone access to your eBay account.
When in doubt, please contact eBay directly to confirm the legitimacy of a request.
If you'd like to report a suspicious email claiming to be from eBay, you can forward it as an attachment to: spoof@ebay.com.
For more information about phishing and what to do if you receive a suspicious or unexpected email, please visit our Recognizing Phishing Emails and Phone Calls help page.
Thank you for helping keep your account secure.
Your eBay Team
