This is not from eBay, but is instead a phishing email - an email disguised in a convincing way to steal usernames and passwords. All of the links in this email point to a fake eBay sign-in page and give the impression that I need to sign in to continue (prompting anyone who visits to enter their username and password).
This is one of the most clever phishing emails I’ve ever seen though, as it knows both my email address and eBay name and includes an item which I actively have up for sale. It very much looks like someone has left an offer on one of my items. I can only assume the reason it knows this information about me (including my email address) is because someone who I must have sold to or purchased from in the past has fallen for this scam themselves - and will have sadly now lost their eBay account to this scam.
Be very careful not to fall for this yourself.
If you receive an offer email on any of your eBay items, instead of clicking on the links in the email simply load up the eBay website or eBay mobile app and check your eBay notifications. If you have no notifications about any offer being received it was not a real email and you should report it for spam.
For comparison, this is what a real eBay offer email looks like:
You’ll notice it includes a lot more information, but unfortunately it doesn’t contain anything that a scammer couldn’t already find out about from your own eBay account. I’m guessing the email I received is old and has been going around for a long time and simply uses an outdated design rather than it being some new thing - it wouldn’t be too difficult for the same fishing email to look identical to the real deal.
This isn’t a case of if it looks too good to be true it is too good to be true. This email isn’t from the perspective of someone offering me some random card but rather the perspective of someone offering me money for a card I currently have up for sale.
The PSA 10 Misty’s Seadra from the phishing email is a card I have up on eBay for sale on my account, the title and picture are taken from the listing, and not only that I have offers enabled - this isn’t some random email out of the blue, it’s an email very much tailored to make me believe someone has made an offer on something I actively have up for sale which I’m hoping to receive offers on. Likewise £320 (the supposed offer amount) is the current BIN price for the item rather than some random number pulled out of thin air.
I imagine it would be very easy to fall for an email like this if you were an inexperienced eBay seller.
That’s crazy, it’s a much more sophisticated phishing attempt than i have seen before… Worrying that they somehow got your personal information/email address from somewhere and specifically targeted you… that’s creepy.
Another good way to check for phishing emails is always check the senders email address. Sometimes it may actually come through as eBay or whatever but if you check the actual address behind the username its usually a dead giveaway its a scam email, as well as the URL link these things take you too. Although i would not advise clicking the links anyway (you may be able to hover over it to reveal the address without clicking it or right click copy and paste it somewhere)
Also @pichufan if you can, forward the email to Spoof@eBay.com i’m sure it will help possibly getting the address/domain banned.