I am a computer systems engineer... I do this for a living.
it is NOT a phishing scam, it is a legit email from EBAY.
The claose and PERMANENTY BANNED (their words) because of ‘hateful activities’ (also their words)
If I was doing business on this site to make a living I would probably be pissed.
But I have not used that site in at least 5 years, so I am wondering what ‘hateful activity’ they are referring to.
Who in their offices decides what is ‘hateful’. The only comments I usually make online are when I accurately point out the idiocies and hypocrisies of liberals... so I can only assume that they consider that hateful.
And 1) is eBay scanning the interwebs to determine my social score?
or 2) did some butthurt liberal ‘report’ me.
I’ve had that happened before- I have fake accounts to monitor such activity, and where it comes from. Someone gets torched so they research you online and then call your employers or friends or whatever and tell them what an awful meanie you are.
I did read up on the issue as reported by several small time sellers across multiple platforms and there does seem to be a clean up of old accounts to prevent use of them by ID thieves
The suspension emails were worded similar to yours but referenced a failed risk assessment analysis the account holders knew nothing about. One person managed to get her account restored because she knew a larger seller who gave her an account manager number who then asked her a series of questions obviously pulled from a credit history (like the color of a car purchased 5 years ago). The account manager told her that she had not answered the phone when they called her a few days earlier to do the ID verification process and they only call once. Which is a questionable procedure at best.
So 1st check to see if Ebay pulled a credit report on you and also to see if there is suspicious activity on it. I haven’t seen anyone mention hateful activity, but if they are pulling credit histories, they may be able to see any donations made via credit card to disfavored entities or gun purchases or any number of things they disapprove of.
Big Data needs defenestrated.