IS eBay Inc <support@checkout-online-customer-department.com A REAL E-BAY ADDRESS??

[chbis]

Seller:		ZZZZZZ
		YYYYYYYY Omaha, NE 68144
Buyer:		WWWWWW
		VVVVVVV Sanger,  TX 76266
Estimated Shipping:		$0.00
Order Total:		$1,000.00
Item Location:		Omaha, Nebraska

The payment method assigned to your transaction is via eBay Cards. Read carefully the instructions below in order to complete this transaction successfully.  

After you purchase the eBay Cards and load them with cash, scratch off or peel off the claimable surface on the back of each card and send us the 13 digit Claim Codes for balance verification. You can verify their balance in 2 different ways:

1. Simply reply to this message and write down each code followed by its denomination. You can also take a picture of the cards, make sure the codes and the denominations are perfectly visible and send it back to us by attaching it to your reply.

2. Call our Customer Support Number: 1 (408) 728 6240.

[eburtonlab]

No, that is not an eBay email address. Or an eBay phone number.

If you found an ad on another site and sent your contact information to a seller there who responded that eBay would "handle the deal", then you are dealing with a scammer.

That is not how eBay works. eBay does not rely on users finding ads on Facebook and sending contact information to a seller. Likely the seller will send a phony "invoice" that appears to be from eBay but is not, asking you to pay with gift cards to have the vehicle shipped to you for a free evaluation period.

eBay has no warehouse and does not ship vehicles. eBay does not handle such transactions or provide "vehicle protection orders". Scammers often promise those things, though. Any phone number you may receive on such an "invoice" does not connect to eBay, but to the scammer.

Anyone that asks you to purchase gift cards or to send card codes to them to complete a transaction is trying to take advantage of you. Anyone asking for a gift card is looking for a gift at your expense. Once anyone else knows the code, your money will be gone and you will have no recourse.

See here for some info about avoiding such scams:

https://pages.motors.ebay.com/buy/security/index.html

https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-fraud-schemes/online-vehicle-sale-fraud

The only way to purchase a vehicle on eBay is to sign in to eBay.com, find the vehicle on eBay and complete the checkout process on eBay. You may have to pay a deposit. Then you typically meet the seller to inspect the vehicle and pay the seller.

If you encountered an ad on another site, contact that site to have the ad removed. eBay is not involved with any ads listed on sites other than eBay itself.

[corvettestainless]

SCAM- nothing about this is legit,  the 2012 Toyota for $2000 (or whatever you think you are buying) does NOT exist. 

[jacobdille1]

departament@ebay-payment-checkout.com is this a real site? 

[donsdetour]

That steal of a deal is to STEAL from YOU....

Its a scam , sCam, and just plain old SCAM man...

[blondeet6]

Absolute SCAM!!

[kh-stanley1]

Hi everyone,

Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread HERE if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

Thank you for understanding.