Anyone ever received "MC098 Suspicious buyer for item " message from ebay?

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Hello __________,

We had to cancel bids for the following buyer because they aren't registered on eBay:

____________

Please don't complete the transaction and don't ship the item. You may have received an email saying the buyer has paid. However, that's probably a fake message. To check if you actually received a payment, please log in to your PayPal account. Also, be sure to report fake emails to us. For more information, visit:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/questions/report-spoof-email.html

If you've already shipped the item and didn't receive a payment, you can request a final value fee credit for the listing. To find out how, go to:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/credits.html

To help you avoid this situation in the future, consider setting a Buy It Now price and requiring buyers to make an immediate payment. For more information on immediate payments, visit:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/pay/require-immediate-payment.html

Also, please consider taking the following action:

1. Contact the company that was used to send payment to verify whether funds have cleared.

2. If the funds are fraudulent, contact law enforcement in the buyer's area and give them the buyer's name, address, phone number, and any other information that may be helpful. If someone is assigned to your case, please ask them to contact us so that we can help with the investigation.

3. Contact the shipping carrier to find out if you can stop shipment on the package.

4. If you used the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to ship the package, consider filing a complaint at:
https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/forms/MailFraudComplaint.aspx

5. File a complaint with the National Consumers League's (NCL) Fraud Center at:
http://www.fraud.org

If you have any concerns or questions, click "Customer Support" at the top of most eBay pages.

We're sorry for this inconvenience, and thanks for continuing to work with us.

Thanks,

eBay
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I received this message today and sure enough the person is no longer a registered user. The transaction took place last week and the money was deposited in my paypal account. I shipped the item the Friday before last and it was delivered yesterday.

The did email through ebay from a different account last Wednesday about the item which I though was strange.

I emailed ebay, but has any dealt with this situation before? I usually hold the payment in my paypal account until the item is delivered, but I transferred the money after reading the email.
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You might be ok, but its good you took your money. Better to be cautious. But if they want to, Paypal can withdraw money from your bank account.
 
I have received that message from them before. However, the person mentioned retracted bids on one of my items. I didn't even recognize the ID since they just bid and quickly retracted overnight. I think the issue was with another seller the ID was in contact with. So I am not sure about your case.
 
[quote name='Arakias']You might be ok, but its good you took your money. Better to be cautious. But if they want to, Paypal can withdraw money from your bank account.[/QUOTE]
That's more so what I'm worried about. I hope its not a someone using a hacked paypal account to buy stuff.
 
I got this once. I'm glad they did it before I had shipped out anything, but then it fucked over my game plan to sell a laptop. It's going to take me another couple of weeks just to relist the fucking thing. :(
 
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