05-25-2017 08:37 PM - edited 05-25-2017 08:39 PM
Why would I receive a message from eBay saying reminder transactions must be completed on eBay
Because textual information you put on eBay in a message, the Description of a listing or other text has a fragment of an email link that the Text Bot has found.
Some "fragments" are easy to find, others can be hard to find.
EASY: Using the @ instead of the word "at". The bot sees the @ and assumes it's part of an email address.
HARD: the bot ignores spaces, so a period ending one sentence gets grouped with the first characters in the next sentence. It's not always obvious. For example the bot would find the .com ending for a domain name in these sentences: I like the beach. Come to the seashore with me