Ebay ask for photo id with selfie

[richie2065]

Just thought Id share... Ebay now asking for selfies to be sent in holding your own passport.. just had this account burn (first in over 2 years) straneg as not sold on it for 2 weeks as well

Thanks for selling on eBay. It's important that we speak with you about recent activity on your account. Because of this activity:
- We've temporarily restricted your selling privileges.
- Any active or pending listings have been removed. You can see a list of removed items below.
- We have credited any associated fees to your account.

To prevent your account from being closed, please confirm your identity !

To verify your identity, we require the following:

1. Photo Identification

A clear, readable, valid and unaltered scanned colour copy or photo of one of the following documents:
- The photo page of your passport.
- Front and back of your national ID card.

AND

- Selfie photo of you holding the passport or national ID card

[Play]

Was this a UK eBay?

What do you think caused it to flag up as its extremely uncommon for eBay to demand ID.

[zamzam]

Hmmm, very strange indeed. Have you first confirmed the email is definitely from eBay and was inside your eBay inbox and not personal email account? Looks like a phishing email as eBay don’t ask for ID like that, it’s always been image or scan...

[arktech]

To verify your identity, we require the following:

1. Photo Identification

A clear, readable, valid and unaltered scanned colour copy or photo of one of the following documents:
- The photo page of your passport.
- Front and back of your national ID card.

AND

- Selfie photo of you holding the passport or national ID card[/QUOTE]

I do not have passport and i do not have a photo driving licence (its a pink one btw LOL ) and never had a national ID card whatever they are ? hmm

[Kiroshi]

Its times like this when I am glad I ignored some warnings on here and also have a couple of accounts in willing family members names who dont use ebay...

[nimade71]

I got many of these selfie requests during the pass two weeks. I never received them before that.

[James Brown]

Originally Posted by nimade71

I got many of these selfie requests during the pass two weeks. I never received them before that.

Maybe this could be a business opportunity for someone, start selling disguise kits so people opening new ebay accounts could remain in stealth mode whilst taking the selfie Lol

[cohiba72]

Originally Posted by Play

Was this a UK eBay?

What do you think caused it to flag up as its extremely uncommon for eBay to demand ID.

it happened to me 8 years ago, ebay asked me to send selfie and holding all the 20 items items that I was selling ob ebay. items were expensive and authentic 100%
and they told me we believe that all your items are original but we need to be sure that items are physicly with you, i did sent the selfie picture and after 24 hours ebay reopen my account

[Ebayorbust]

There are always workarounds to such requests.

[donkeykong2012]

That email is a SCAM PHISHING email.

I received a couple on a few accounts in the last 2 days.

ALWAYS check by logging into your EBay account. If the email is not there - it is a scam.

I use Thunderbird for email, and all links within the email take you off EBay.

If you reply to the Phishing email, you are giving hackers access to your account.

[empirestate]

This is your guide to removing this...see video below...

YouTube

YouTube

[Ebayorbust]

This is your guide to removing this...see video below...

You forgot to add in the 6 lines of self-promoting links at the bottom of your post.

[Contradict]

I don't believe there's any need for eBay to do this.

But it's very useful for fraudsters

[Wordpresguy]

strange because neither ebay nor paypal ask for selfie.

As suggested by the other member's pls log-in to your ebay account to check if, the msg is your ebay inbox before bothering yourself on how to go about the selfie issue

Thanks

[rsot]

Last post was 2017 - interesting revival

[ZainJ]

So, was this a scam in the end or?

[Bigblackdog]

Originally Posted by ZainJ

So, was this a scam in the end or?

Yes