TAKE over paypal by ebay

[flingel54]

Hi every-one

A member of ebay has been in touch with me to ask if I have received any messages concerning ebay taking over paypal as they ebay have asked him for details to his bank account so they can swop him from paypal to ebay, I don't see why ebay would ask him as they already have his details, has any-one else been aproched in this way ?

Me myself thinks its a scam but just to put this members mind at rest has any-one else bween asked this ?

Thanks in advance

[john1297576 · Accepted solution]

Ebay parted company from paypal years ago,why ever would they do this, when they have got Ebay Payments coming up.

Never give information away however genuine it looks.

[flingel54 · Accepted solution]

Thanks john1297576
That is very interesting most appreciated defiantly a scam ,I will put the members mind at rest.thank-you.
Flingel54

[papso22 · Accepted solution]

If the member is a business seller it could be a genuine message about enrolling the member in managed payments. How may have got confused. How did ebay get in touch with him? Was it through ebay messages?

[tressygirl]

SCAM !

No memeber of eBay would be int touch with you for this reason,   eBay would NEVER contact you for any bank details.

Delete and ignore the message, or forward to spoof@ebay.com

Golden rule is to never click on any links in these phishing emails,  this brings you to a fake login and that is where hackers glean all account and password information.

[papso22]

Given the somewhat confused post, could this actually be a message about managed payments?

[tobiasd4]

I was wondering that, business sellers are moving to it soon.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/selling-policies/business-seller-policy?id=4710