Telephone scam using eBay in association with Directv and AT&T

[wyghostown]

Calls are made from 855-739-2402  Call back numbers vary from initial callback to 888-278-1672, and finance department at 877-349-0613.  Caller promises 50% reduction on Directv bill for 2 years if you will send 6 months of payment initially via eBay gift cards (available everywhere).  Return messages come from 833-659-1418 and 844-459-1387.  Directv does not call subscribers.  Hope eBay can help stop this scam.

[soh.maryl]

So there's a listing on eBay with all this information? 

Or did you find it on another site and were told that eBay is involved?

[wyghostown]

Not on eBay site just using the eBay name in association with Directv and AT&T  to promote scam via phone call

[lacemaker3]

This is an obvious scam, because eBay gift cars can only be used on eBay.

Anyone asking you to pay by sending the numbers off the back of the cards, is a scammer and a thief.

[eburtonlab]

Such scams are very common. eBay has nothing to do with it, other than the fact that the scammers are using eBay's name and asking for gift cards.

Anyone you do not know personally asking your to purchase gift cards to complete any sort of transaction should be assumed to be a scammer.

If you receive an email or a text message from someone you know asking you to purchase gift cards, you should assume that person's email account has been hijacked until you can speak to that person to verify that it is actually the person you know.

https://pages.ebay.com/giftcardscams/

[soh.maryl]

Report this to the site where you found it.

"Hope eBay can help stop this scam." It has nothing at all to do with eBay and eBay will make no effort to stop the scam.  That would be up to the site where you found this.

Please tell us you didn't fall for it.  

[releasethekraken_1]

This wasn’t on a website, or in an email or a text. They’re doing it the old fashioned way , by phone.

That’s why the thread title says “Telephone scam”.

[wyghostown]

No and reported to the Feds

[soh.maryl]

Thank you.  Would still be interested to know if the OP fell for it.