email from ebay re buyer that contacted me may be a scam, why not just ban him??

[jerseycameron]

email from ebay re buyer that contacted me may be a scam, why not just ban him??

I emailed ebay and their canned response is useless

[eburtonlab]

It is important for users to be able to recognize various scams when they are encountered.

eBay cannot ban a user; eBay can only suspend the user's account.

Scammers rarely give up when an account is suspended. They register new accounts with different credentials or hijack existing accounts and continue scamming.

[jerseycameron]

if u know he a scammer, suspend him, useless answer from eBay

[eburtonlab]

if u know he a scammer, suspend him, useless answer from eBay

I do not know what the original message you received said exactly. Perhaps it was a general warning against exchanging contact information because that can be a sign of a scam, rather than an accusation.

Or may have been a specific warning about the user you were communicating with, in which case eBay may be in the process of suspending the account, or returning the account to the rightful owner if the account was hijacked.

If a scammer provided a phone number or email address via eBay messages, eBay is giving you a warning so you do not continue dealing with that user outside of eBay even after the eBay account has been suspended.

[kensgiftshop]

The email said it may be a scam, not it is a scam.

They don't know for sure if it's a scam or not, so they want to warn you.