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Phishing text scam
Hello there eBay community. My name is Spencer. I just today received a recruiting text message from a suspicious address that seems awfully phishy.
of course, useless eBay customer service and the stupid AI replies will not allow me to type out this issue anywhere or record it anywhere so I am looking to you to help me help others. The message is offering a job with eBay.
no thanks to automated eBay customer service and help.
your welcome for saving you from fraud.
-spencer
do not reply or open messages from:
morgan.hunter499+unter499@raidenv1.de
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eburtonlab
Mentor1 year agoeBay does not offer jobs to people via text message, so you are right to be suspicious.
Some general info about spotting and reporting various kinds of scams:
https://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/index.html
For this type of scam, the scammers send messages from a throwaway email or temporary text numbers, so looking for a specific number or address will not help next time; being able to identify the type of scam will help when it arrives from a different source.