topic Scam in Buying

Scam

emcloud77 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:44:03 GMT

This morning I received an offer on a listing which turns out to be a scam it gives you a link to verify yourself and your details. Please be aware of this.

Re: Scam

tressygirl — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:49:16 GMT

Hopefully people will see your post, and take note that with any message which asks for you to click on a link to never do this.

@emcloud77

Re: Scam

thesmokingrunner — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:16:10 GMT

I'd guess that the "offer" you received looks very much like the one shown in this thread, @emcloud77 :

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Member-To-Member-Support/OFFER-SCAM/m-p/8013657#M347441

If so then here's another one for you kat@ebay ...

Re: Scam

jckl1957 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:55:59 GMT

There is another post about this today in Member to Member with details of what the message looks like.

OFFER SCAM

There will be people caught out by this who don't have anybody at home to ask and don't know about the forum.

It's a shame Ebay can't get ahead of this and send a genuine, urgent email to all members warning them of this scam.

kat@ebay

Is this something that would ever be considered? A lot of Ebay sellers are vulnerable for a variety of reasons.

Re: Scam

jckl1957 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:55:31 GMT

I have basically repeated your post @thesmokingrunner

I should have read it before I wrote mine.

Sound response from yourself as always.

Re: Scam

kat@ebay — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:45:26 GMT

Hi All,

Thanks for the tags.

@emcloud77

Thank you for your post and reporting this. We don't ask for bank details in offer messages or give links for them so this .I'll get it reported so the necessary action can be taken.

Thank you,

Kat

Re: Scam

thesmokingrunner — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:30:05 GMT

Absolutely no problem @jckl1957 - thank you the acknowledgement and thank you for the compliment too.

The important thing - as ever - is that there are no conflicting opinions in any of the posted replies. One can only hope eBay either as you suggest send out an official urgent warning email to all users (rather than just post something on the Community Pages which not everyone will see) or that they include a common identifier from the scam messages to the restricted list.

After all, if eBay can prevent phone numbers and email addresses being exchanged it shouldn't be too difficult to add something like check-993.my to the restricted list - should it?