Hi Carl, nice to see you here on the Supercar site.
Sounds like you did the right thing in contacting eBay. You really have to watch yourself in dealings like that.....as you say, if something sounds fishy, it probably is. I decided to quit using PayPal because I was getting all sorts of strange sounding - but
absolutely official looking - emails purporting to be from PayPal, asking me to 're-register my account' or something like that

They were all bogus, too