Posted on 03/28/2023 7:42:02 AM PDT by Mr. K
Had a weird email from Ebay this weekend.
I have (or had?) an ebay account, I have not used it in years.
This weekend I received an email saying my account was permanently banned because I had done some sort of 'promoting hate'
Considering that I have not been on eBay site for many years I can only assume they were referring to some post I made on some OTHER site.
I am pretty vocal about how I think liberalism, and especially this 'trans' business is a mental disease.
So, is eBay trolling other sites to check my social score?
Did some butthurt liberal take objection to something I wrote elsewhere and decide to look up anything with my email address and get me banned? did they 'report' me to EBAY and ebay acted on it?
If I was relying on that site for actual income I would be very unhappy. Since I don't actually even remember having an account there it does not bother me much.
Is EBAY just cancelling any people who are not liberal? Is EBAY a 'liberals only' site?
Change your Ebay password. Your account might have been hijacked. Less used accounts are often the target.
Dude...
I have 3 brothers and a sister.
All of them are heavy into selling on eBay.
All of them are very active conservatives on social media.
None of them have experienced this crap from eBay.
If they have I will let you know on this thread.
I will ask if they have gotten the slightest bit of pressure.
In the meantime take a breath and relax..
In a browser, right clic on the email address or name that says it’s from eBay. It should show you the actual email address it was sent from. Odds are very good that it isn’t from eBay, though there may be something with those characters in the actual address. I’m getting stuff that says my Icloud payment hasn’t processed, and demanding that I clic on the link to update my payment info. Doing right clic on the address gets this address: info@bjxfeclaimmytax.co.uk Doesn’t look like Apple or Icloud to me. Get them for Ebay, Amazon, and quite a few others too. This particular one is not even addressed to me, but someone named Gary Boulter at a UK email address. It’s spam, spam, spam! Right clicing on the button to update my financial info gets me an IP address. I could look it up using a reverse IP lookup, but odds are it’s some third-world toilet.
Don’t click on any links and check the headers. This is probably a fishing attempt trying to obtain your username and password by having you log in via a fake webpage.
Once they break in in to your ebay account, the will try to use your saved payment methods to buy top end goods.
You should check the sender’s email address. If it does not look like a bonafied ebay address then it is a scam and should be put into the Scam/Spam folder.
Or.....
possibly ebay is trying to get a response from you so that they can beg you to start using ebay again.
Wait, it’s in the messages file on your personal Ebay page?
Send them a note explaining you can’t sell your at home abortion products without an Ebay account.
Having read further I see you are locked out. Since their automated Help system is based on being logged in there is nothing you can do to find out more unless you want to use a lawyer.
I am very surprised they would exclude anyone as a buyer. After all,they are in business to make money.
It is a reasonable question to ask. So far, there is not enough information presented from other sources to make that determination.
A dormant account, hijacked by a fraudster is a possibility. I have had that happen in the distant past.
Most likely, the bans are automatic based on a computer programmed assessment of account activity.
As a software engineer, you must be very familiar with programs which do not quite work as expected, or actually contain errors.
Of course, MY code never does those things. Errm, well almost never. Well, except for those few times. No doubt, your code is better. ;)
E-bay does not really care. Buyers and sellers are merely livestock to be harvested. I avoid them.
“Most likely, the bans are automatic based on a computer programmed assessment of account activity.”
This is what I am thinking as well.
Sounds like a scam.
HOWEVER... Sites DO scan the internet or linked accounts (google is evil. M$. etc. Anything you use those accounts for) and they do snitch back and forth. I was kicked off the entire googleverse for making a comment on youtube that “a man can never become a woman.” That’s all it took.
that is my main issue here... i could see them deleting it for inactivity.
But the cancelation email specifically said it it was due to some ‘hateful activity’
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.
Oh, well if your 3 brothers are OK then that settles it...
No, read the threads ...
Your brilliant analysis is correct (especially where you say how good my code is)
My main concern is how they determined I had ‘hateful activities’
Is this something new from ebay?
Are they starting to ban conservatives?
butthurt liberals dont consider money more important
Whenever I get an email l like that, I check the actual email address, not the header name. Spam stuff will come from an email address that is not apparently associated with the “sender.”
Once you get used to checking that stuff, all the crazy’s stand out like a sore thumb.
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.
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