I see this official looking email in my inbox, unusual because it made it past the spam filter:
Contact me asap someone’s trying to pay for an item of mine with your paypal account/credit card.
I don’t think it’s you because they are avoiding contact through your eBay account saying that they cannot access it.This means that they somehow have your paypal or credit card details but they don’t seem to have access to your eBay account. Contact me through eBay using the respond now so I can give you more details … if you can’t use respond now email me at …
The poor soul trying to sell their item on Ebay had to put this in their listing:
i did not send any emails. I HAVE HAD OVER 4000 SENT TO ME. it has been rePorted to ebay. they don’t have your information but they are trying to get it from you. DON’T GIVE IT TO ANYONE!
The scam is, that if a person clicks on any of the active links in the email, they go to a dummy scammer screen that looks like a real Ebay screen or Paypal screen, and the scammer gets the passwords.
For those new to such scams, always look for your full name, not your screen name in emails. Never click on links in an email, a third-grader can fake those, and take you to their scammer screen. Open a new browser and type in the URL of where the message is supposed to originate from. In the case of Ebay, any communications will show up in “My Messages.”