Phishing Email - best offers

[magpiecorner1]

Probably not a new thing, but first one I've had.

Received an email into my email box, offer on one of my items.  Daft thing is it made me wonder straight off because the offer was for the full buy it now price - as the item is on buy it now or best offer, why would anyone do that, when they can just buy at full price?

The message looks very convincing, even has my eBay name AND the correct email address.  It's on a private account so no email address on the listing.

The sender name was not showing as eBay, but the same name as the buyers eBay ID in the message.

Of course not sure what would have happened if I'd accepted the offer, but as I've never seen this before thought I'd give a heads up.

Not sure either if I can give the buyers ID, should be able to if it's made up, but could be a hacked account.

[lucy_farmer]

Insider information??

[marco@ebay]

Morning *vyolla*, thanks for your reply.

As advised before, we wouldn't be able to confirm where exactly they get the information from due to multiple factors. While I know this is unfortunate, we guarantee you that your data is protected at all times, and as we already know, if your account is compromised, we have a security team in place and procedures in place to help with situations like that one. In the meantime, anything you receive can be reported as I suggested above.

Thank you,

Marco