MartinM

I got an ebay notification to my registered ebay address that I'd sold an item (6 available, 1 is now purchased) and inviting me to send an invoice. So far, so good.

One minute later I get another email to my registered ebay address ... all the xxx's are filled in and make sense

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My paypal account shows no transaction

My paypal address is not the same as my ebay address, and paypal has no knowledge of my ebay address so I tried the link in the message but with another email address that paypal will have no knowledge of..

https://www.paypal.com/uk/links/uni/...abbde@gfsd.com

and it just invites me to sign up.

I can't think there's money waiting behind a paypal account that I have yet to sign up to.

Any ideas?

A bit more research on the guy shows good feedback and he buys/sells items that make this purchase believable

Enigma

forward the email to spoof@paypal.co.uk or spoof@ebay.co.uk and they will tell you if it's genuine or not

MartinM

Have done, thanks.

Should I just send an invoice to the guy, via eBay, and ignore this alleged payment email?

dangerous100

Just delete all emails to do with this!!!

I have had 3 spoof/scam emails this week & i sent them all to spoof@ebay.co.uk & they told me they were all FAKE!

MartinM

All my fault - problem solved :embarassed:

I somehow set the auction up for paypal payments to go to my registered ebay address rather than my paypal address.

So I logged on to paypal, added my ebay registered address to the acount and paypal said:

There was a pending payment sent to this email address which has been credited to your account.

..and I've got the money.

So it's a bit of sharp practice for paypal to take money for email addresses that it doesn't know about - presumably they debit the sender's a/c straight away - and then wait for someone to claim the funds?