A request from e-Bay?

Question

This afternoon, Sat., 02/11, I received a request for my full 9 digit SS#. The address was www.riskremedyweb.ebay.com. Is that legitimate?

lacemaker3 · Accepted Answer

@kabilab; That's a partial link. If the complete link looks like below, then that is on the eBay.com domain, because the characters that are after the "www" and just before the first / slash are " .ebay.com " . This screenshot is from someone else who got a request to update their SSN from eBay. eBay is requiring full SSNs from sellers when they get close to or exceed $600 in sales, because the new federal requirement for when payment processors have to issue a 1099-K is for $600 or more in gros...

jtimleck · Answer

Other people have it â€“ this is a **bleep** third-party company that works for eBay and verifying credentials. EVERY TIME you change anything on your account you will probably trigger this now. I updated my bank account information as requested, and then had to update my phone number six days later, it reset the entire **bleep** process. They are sitting on more than $1000 of my sales, Iâ€™ve called THREE times now. This is utter bull**bleep** thatâ€™s only meant to protect eBay.