@bullshark63 wrote:
It was not the buyer. Ebay has also sent me an email about interacting with the fraudulent account. So then everything should be fine and I don't need to intercept the package?
Well, there are plenty of other risks to selling big-ticket items on eBay, but to answer your question on your case specifically, no, you don't need to intercept the package based on the details you have given us here. There is no indication that your buyer knows anything about this or has anything to do with it. Your seller protection against an Item Not Received dispute remains in force as long as you ship to the address received with the payment, and nowhere else.
The bogus change-of-address request that you got from another account is sent out in bulk to as many sellers of high-value items as possible before eBay detects the messages and shuts down the throwaway account that is sending them out. The message you received may not make any specific reference to what your item is at all, so that the scammer doesn't have to waste time tailoring each message to each recipient. I think if you look up the feedback page for the sender of that mystery message ID (not your buyer, the other guy), you may find that it's already been shut down.
They did not target you personally. All that's required is for a programmed script to search for recently-completed sales in high-value categories. (You can search for Completed listings and Sold listings, not just active ones.) It then fires off that message you received to each seller, asking them to redirect their shipment to another address, commonly a reshipper, as that gives the scammer an extra degree of separation to make it more difficult to either reclaim the package or pinch the perpetrator (who is often but not always in another country).
(Reshippers themselves are not scammers; it's just that because they deal with huge numbers of customers, there will of course be some percentage of scammers that sign up for accounts there. You can find horror stories about reshippers on-line, but that's simply because no one whose transaction went fine -- which is to say, practically all of them -- is going to go on-line to loudly announce that fact.)
