eBay Email ScamWe saw this one come across our desk a few months back when one of our team members had a bunch of active listings on eBay. He got home one day and found an email in his inbox regarding a "Question from a seller". It had a link to log in and read the question.

Ok, sounds legit. You're selling on eBay, you get questions from sellers on occasion. Well this one is a complete scam. He came to find out, after he clicked on the link to "login", he noticed the URL of the destination site was NOT eBay.com. It was some random IP address like "233.121.1.23". This should be a sure sign that the email is a scam. Whenever you see the link that is not the authority domain name they are claiming to be, be on the alert!

If you really want to know if an email is legit, you can always go directly to the site (eBay.com or whatever) and contact them directly referencing the email. They can confirm whether or not the request is legitimate.

Moral of the story, be sure to check the destination URL of any links you are clicking in an email from eBay. Due to the size of the eBay user community, more times than not they are scams.