eBay

bluefurrykitty · ‎06-26-2017

I got a message from someone interested in an item I'm selling. They asked me to email them a response, put an email address and said "the email address on eBay is no longer in use." This seems extremely suspicious to me and I wanted to report it to eBay as I'm concerned this is a hacked account but I couldn't find anywhere on Ebay to report something like that. Anyone know how to do that?

autumsta0 · ‎10-11-2017

Hello,

I also received a similar suspicious email. Did you report it to Ebay. I wanted to contact ebay customer service but cannot locate a number to call in the Help/Question section.

Thanks!

a_c_green · ‎10-12-2017

@autumsta0 wrote:
Hello,
I also received a similar suspicious email. Did you report it to Ebay. I wanted to contact ebay customer service but cannot locate a number to call in the Help/Question section.

I believe you can forward the email to spoof@ebay.com, but the reality is that yes, of course it's a scammer; the purpose of their wanting you to contact an alternate email address is that you will have to use your own outside email account to do it. Once they have that, you'll receive all kinds of official-looking but completely fake documentation, supposedly from eBay or PayPal, attempting to lure you into what will most likely be an offsite sale and a fake payment. Just ignore and delete.

newview · ‎10-12-2017

@timemachine777 wrote:
@bluefurrykitty wrote:
I got a message from someone interested in an item I'm selling. They asked me to email them a response, put an email address and said "the email address on eBay is no longer in use." This seems extremely suspicious to me and I wanted to report it to eBay as I'm concerned this is a hacked account but I couldn't find anywhere on Ebay to report something like that. Anyone know how to do that?
You would think with eBay's crack down on off site selling, that they would supply a report this message link in the messages.

But then eBay might actually have to DO something ... which we all know they take enormous pains to avoid. /sarcasm

I'm ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ certain the lunatics have taken over the asylum.