Phishing attempt? | Payment processing on eBay

marathoni45 · 2025-12-15T08:51:51.342000Z

Dear Sir or Madam,lately I have been observing more often (but not always) that when I make a PayPal payment on eBay, I am asked for my password twice. When selecting the payment method „PayPal“, the page first shows„https://www.paypal.com/checkoutnow?token….“with the prompt to enter the password. After I have entered my password, another „PayPal screen“ appears, this time „https://www.paypal.com/webapps/hermes?token....“ again with the prompt to enter the password. Only after the second password entry is the payment triggered. So far I have not noticed any negative effects on my PayPal account, but it still feels unpleasant, because this sporadic double password request could also have been generated by a phishing program? Do you know more precisely how and why this comes about?Can you allay my concerns?I thank you in advance for your informative reply. Kind regardsMarthonie

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