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Ebay ask for photo id with selfie
 

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

Re: Ebay ask for photo id with selfie
 

Was this a UK eBay?

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

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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...

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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

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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...

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

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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

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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

Re: Ebay ask for photo id with selfie
 

There are always workarounds to such requests.

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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.

Re: Ebay ask for photo id with selfie
 

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

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

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

But it's very useful for fraudsters

Re: Ebay ask for photo id with selfie
 

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

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Last post was 2017 - interesting revival :)

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So, was this a scam in the end or?

Re: Ebay ask for photo id with selfie
 

Yes

:ranger: