eBay

mrhws · ‎01-25-2019

Received an email that was originated as an eBay message from a buyer asking a question about an item of mine. Buyer ID is fedeman52 with 0 feedback and 1/25/19 as join date.

Here is the message with the link deleted so no one accidentally clicks it. I knew it was a phishing con right away. All I can say is beware.

Greetings I am having issues while trying to buy this article I contacted ebay in which they transferred me to a call with a paypal agent they told me that the problem is in your account,below I will leave a email PayPal sent me after the call

"We have received your inquiry regarding the payment that you are trying to make, your seller's account has payments for confirmations disabled, please contact the seller and send them the link below so they can fix this issue and activate the payments confirmations, I'll leave the link below
XXXXXXXXX
Charles
Customer Service "

This is what paypal and ebay told me , I hope you solve it as fast as possible so I can be able to buy, I wait for your answer.

mopata · ‎01-25-2019

You need to report this to ebay safety ASAP. I've gotten spoof emails posing as messages from ebay but, never inside the messaging system.

gew6463 · ‎01-25-2019

I want to think that sellers would know not to click on that (through the Ebay system or not) since they can go to Paypal through the myEbay page, but a newer member might think it was normal possibly (?). So I agree, someone needs to know (whoever that is).

rainbowcolorz · ‎01-26-2019

@gew6463 wrote:
I want to think that sellers would know not to click on that (through the Ebay system or not) since they can go to Paypal through the myEbay page, but a newer member might think it was normal possibly (?). So I agree, someone needs to know (whoever that is).

Wow. I wonder how something like that even got through the eBay messaging system. Very scary. I don't click on some links that I receive in email from friends or acquaintances until / unless I confirm with them they sent it to me in the first place (and what's behind it).

jsi342 · ‎01-27-2019

I just received one of these same worded emails. What did you end up doing? I could tell it was bogus by the url in the email. Thanks,
jsi342

thevintagesilvershop · ‎01-27-2019

OP must have reported that ID. I just did a search for it and it came back “not found”. If I were you, I’d call ebay or at least “report a buyer”.

jsi342 · ‎01-27-2019

Okay sounds good! I blocked the buyers name and I will let eBay know.

luckythewinner · ‎01-27-2019

@jsi342 wrote:
I could tell it was bogus by the url in the email.

I can tell it is bogus because the message that is allegedly from PayPal is laughably bad English and make absolutely no sense:

"your seller's account has payments for confirmations disabled, please contact the seller and send them the link below so they can fix this issue and activate the payments confirmations"