First time I've seen this particular scam . . . at least with this twist.

[pburn]

Over on the Payments discussion board, a member posted that s/he had received this message:

"Greetings, I have trouble buying this item, so I communicate with eBay in which they tell me that you have  to disable an option of the new policies. Below I leave the link thanks

https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/service-and-payments/managed-payments-on-ebay.html"

Now, I've seen the fake email scam before, but not with this particular twist. It seems to me as though the scam buyer has caught on to the Managed Payments program not allowing buyers to select and pay via PayPal and is trying to somehow get the seller to, what, maybe send a PayPal invoice? The member who posted the scam didn't fall for it, so who knows what the next step would have been.

Hopefully, members who opted into the Managed Payments program won't fall for it either . . .

Anyone else run into this slight nuance on the standard fake email scam?

P.S. The link is legit. It's just a link to the Managed Payments page.

[myjunqueyourtreasure]

Sounds like a scammer who's worried their old scam won't work anymore (get seller's email, send fake PP advice of payment rec'd). As we all know (but apparently it escaped the would be scammer) once you're in MP there IS no way out and especially no way a seller can just "disable" it.

Too sad, too bad.