Strange email received from seller

Corpsebride86

Hello,

Bought an item last night and paid for it, through PayPal. I've received this email from the seller nothing through eBay it came to my email.

The message you sent requires that you verify that you are a real live human being and not a spam source.

To complete this verification, simply reply to this message and leave
the subject line intact.

The headers of the message sent from your address are shown below:

From payment@paypal.com Sat Dec 15 20:38:49 2012
Received: from mx0.slc.paypal.com ([173.0.84.225]:11359 helo=mx2.slc.paypal.com)
by server1.hazelnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <payment@paypal.com>)
id 1TjyVT-0007WB-PM
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 20:38:49 +0000
DomainKey-Signature: q=dns; a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
s=dkim; d=paypal.com;
h=DKIM-Signature:Received:Date:Message-Id:Subject:X-MaxCode-Template:To:From:Sender:X-Email-Type-Id:X-XPT-XSL-Name:Content-Type:MIME-Version;
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DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; d=paypal.com; s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed;
q=dns/txt; i=@paypal.com; t=1355603921;
h=From:From:Subject:Date:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type;
bh=7MJl7jMPMrGrXH4UB/cKjCCTpPc=;
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Received: (qmail 18596 invoked by uid 993); 15 Dec 2012 20:38:41 -0000
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:38:41 -0800
Message-Id: <1355603921.18596@paypal.com>
Subject: Item no.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Notification of an Instant Payment Received
from xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
X-MaxCode-Template: email-auction-payment-notification
To: Xxxxxxxxxxxx <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: sendmail@paypal.com
X-Email-Type-Id: PP753
X-XPT-XSL-Name: email_pimp/GB/en_GB/auction/AuctionPaymentNotification.xsl
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=--NextPart_048F8BC8A2197DE2036A
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.1
X-Spam-Score: -60
X-Spam-Bar:

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X-Ham-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "server1.hazelnet.co.uk", has
identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message
has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label
similar future email. If you have any questions, see
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Content preview: 15 Dec 2012 20:38:11 GMT | Transaction ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, You received a payment of 11.00 GBP from
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Thanks for using PayPal. You can now
send any items. To see all the transaction details, log in to your PayPal
account. [...]
Content analysis details: (-6.1 points, 5.0 required)
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-5.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, high
trust
[173.0.84.225 listed in list.dnswl.org]
0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider
(Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
-0.0 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain
-1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1%
[score: 0.0000]
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
0.8 HTML_TAG_BALANCE_HEAD BODY: HTML has unbalanced "head" tags
0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY Huge... sums of money
X-Spam-Flag: NO


It's asking me to verify who I am after I apparently sent the seller a message. I haven't sent the seller any messages though, as soon as the auction ended I paid with paypal and thats it, I've never ever had this on eBay.

I can see there is some text within the email that I presume refers to the PayPal payment as I can see it says the amount I paid and safe to send? Do I need to take any action with regards to this?

I think I'm being more cautious as it came to my email not eBay messages. Thanks in advance for your help

soolin

As long as your payment shows properly in paypal I would ignore it.

Corpsebride86

Thanks Soolin

The payment is showing as completed. so ill leave it for now and see if anything else comes through.

eaglesrjh

This looks like an automatic response from a spam filter. The actual seller has not seen it yet as the spam filter has blocked it.

Personally I would do as it says and just hit reply then send so the seller gets the payment notification.

However if you don't it will still show as paid on their ebay page and their paypal account so they should still see its paid and send the item.

If you wanted to minimize your risk of seller not sending as had not seen this mail then send them an ebay message saying you paid but got a weird message from their spam filter.

When you pay through paypal the reply address on the notification email is your one hence why this came to that email address not through ebay.

soolin

eaglesrjh wrote: »

This looks like an automatic response from a spam filter. The actual seller has not seen it yet as the spam filter has blocked it.

Personally I would do as it says and just hit reply then send so the seller gets the payment notification.

However if you don't it will still show as paid on their ebay page and their paypal account so they should still see its paid and send the item.

If you wanted to minimize your risk of seller not sending as had not seen this mail then send them an ebay message saying you paid but got a weird message from their spam filter.

When you pay through paypal the reply address on the notification email is your one hence why this came to that email address not through ebay.

The PayPal payment notification though is sent to seller via PayPal, so if this was automatic wouldn't the email have gone to the address the email came from, ie PayPal?

eaglesrjh

Nope. Paypal system sends it so it seems to come from your email address. All replies automatic or manual go to the users email address.

soolin

eaglesrjh wrote: »

Nope. Paypal system sends it so it seems to come from your email address. All replies automatic or manual go to the users email address.

I'm not techie so I probably don't understand, but if I 'reply' to a 'you have funds' PayPal email it goes to,PayPal, not to the buyer.

eaglesrjh

Not hugely techie myself but I respond to every payment notification as a way of communication and that reply goes to the buyer not paypal.

RHemmings

soolin wrote: »

I'm not techie so I probably don't understand, but if I 'reply' to a 'you have funds' PayPal email it goes to,PayPal, not to the buyer.

Some email clients and web interfaces are set up so that if you reply to an email from yourself to someone else, that the new reply will go to the someone else. I'm pretty sure gmail does this. I would agree that this is a reasonable way to do things as in my experience replying to yourself is usually an error.

Although for things such as paypal I prefer to start a new email and type in the address myself, in case someone finds a security hole in my web software such that they can send a phishing email that appears to be going back to paypal, but is actually going elsewhere.