I've gotten three emails from what looks an appears like ebay from a guy wanting my phone number and shipping info for an item he says he purchased from me for 1200 USD, shipping charges to Florida Orlando is how its typed, then today I get one threating to turn me in to the police, paypall and ebay if he doesn't hear from me as 1200 USD is a lot for him, this email did go directly to my junk folder and has a tag for phishing scam attached to it, all msg I get from ebay go to my inbox so I'm starting to smell a rat here, first I haven't sold anything on ebay for a long time which they know and I definitly haven't been paid or recieved 1200 dollars in my paypal, I'd definitly know about that, plus when I plug the item number into ebay it doesn't find anything but the user ID he's using does come up as a legite account, bobbybill45, course in the first two emails wanting shipping info, his name is Stanely, in the last one threating me his name is Bob.
Any of you ever get junk like this, they look like legite ebay messages except it was delievered straight to my junk mail folder. I've got some phishing emails before from a Bank of Americaclone but this is the first one I've gotten from an ebay clone.

 

The guy very well may have paid for something sold by someone that "stole" your eBay identification, but most likely is a scam

Contact eBay immediately and also consider contacting your local authorities if you've received a threat.

 

I get it all the time and also from scammers claiming to be PayPal. Ignore them or report them to Ebay/PayPal but don't reply back to them.

 

i get the emails saying a foreign based server had tried to access my acct. and if i want ebay to do anything about it i just have to reply to the email. the other option they give is to do nothing and they will suspend my acct. I say suspend away.

 

If your email account is like mine, it determines junk mail by the number of receipents it was sent to. If that is the case, and the email had 12 or more receipents, I would not enen reply because that would only confirm your email address.
Definately do not send your address or phone number because is the start of identity fraud.

 

I went on ebay and sent the guy a message thru there that someone is using his ID or trying to scam me one, as it is a legitimate ebay account, he had like 790 transactions, I'm not worried about it, anytime I get a message from ebay its in my messages on ebays page also and there is nothing there, plus I knew it stunk when he said he was going to report me to paypal, I can easily proof thats BS that there is no money been delievered to my paypal account.

 

You should probably report it to eBay.

 

Forward the email to : spoof@ebay.com

I don't know what ebay does with this info, but I always report the frauds.

m.a.c.

 

i went throught the same thing several months ago. someone borrowed my username and offerred about 15 items for sale. i did receive 1 money order in the mail and returned it. whether its a phishing scam or not, its just about useless to respond . out of 15 buyers, i had 2 that responded and reported me to ebay for fraudulent sales. all ebay required of me was to change my password.

 

First off, none of these are going to ask for a password in the email, so if you see that, condsider it a scam. Most of these (be it eBay, PayPal or your bank) are sent in HTML format. If they provide a link to goto to login to your account, right click the message body and select "view source." You can then see the HTML code and look for the link info. You find that instead of a valid https:\PayPal\etc\etc, it will be something like http:\CaptureLoginInfo.asp or similar. Quite often they are subllinked off a valid site they hacked, so watch out for that too.

As a general rule 99.9% of emails you get from PayPal or eBay stating that they are about to hang you, are fake.