On XXXX XXXX, 2015, the account ( XXXX ) on eBay purchased my iPad mini 3 XXXX Wi-Fi, for the amount of {$450.00}. The account owner, named XXXX XXXX XXXX, requested an invoice for the transaction, which I provided immediately. Then I received automatically generated emails from ( what I believed were ) PayPal, notifying me of the transaction complete, and from eBay, congratulating me on selling my item. Since, I believed that I had received the payment from the buyer, I shipped it to the buyer with overnight priority ( which I charged to the buyer as an additional {$86.00} ), as we had agreed upon. Unfortunately on XXXX XXXX, 2015, I received an automated email from eBay stating " We had to cancel bids and purchases on the following item ( s ) for the buyer, because they were made without the account owner 's permission ''. Upon further review of the communications that I had received from " PayPal '' ( email address : XXXXXXXXXXXX ) and " eBay '' ( XXXXXXXXXXXX ) in regards to this transaction, I realized that although the emails appeared to be very authentic, they were in fact fraudulent and malicious. The email correspondence that the buyer provided was XXXXXXXXXXXX ( which belongs to XXXX! XXXX XXXX. XXXX according to PayPal ), The XXXX tracking number that I provided to the buyer after shipping the iPad to her, was : XXXX And the address that she requested it be shipped to was : XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, Illinois XXXX This address was different than her address that was provided on eBay. 

I immediately contacted PayPal, eBay, XXXX, and XXXX, to see how the situation could be remedied. I also went to the local police station to file a police report, and filed a claim on cfpb as well as XXXX. eBay provides " Buyer Protection '' to their consumers, but there is no " Seller Protection '' that protects sellers from unfortunate circumstances where users have maliciously stolen items from sellers via eBay 's platform. 
