Bot Security

Question

I got a ebay message ( as a new seller) from bot security, asking me to copy/paste in address bar, following their link. Is this normal? I don't even know where the address bar is.

eburtonlab · Answer

@effazee707

Any time someone tells you to paste text into an address bar, you should be suspicious of some sort of scam.

If eBay wants you to verify your account to do something, eBay will contact you directly by name rather than telling you to paste a link into your browser's address bar.

See here for a similar post that includes some description of the text from a scam message:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/Verifybot-533359-message/m-p/35416910