Craigslist Scam using PayPal

[temp20180730]

Hello, I just got an email from a scammer named Don with email donself68 at live.com.

Greetings,

Thanks for the response, I'm very sorry I can't come over to inspect the cellphone, cos i'm very busy in the office right now ( i'm a security officer in Federal home land Security Center ). I hope that the item is in good condition and shape. Please I'll need your assistance in sending it over to my son. I hope you will help me out. And you'll receive confirmation of payment from PayPal before shipping, He traveled to spend his birthday with his Mom, where she works in the US consulate in West Africa. ( United State of America Embassy) I'll be adding extra $70 making it a total of $145 for shipping and the cost of your item; I hope it will cover it. And I'll be paying you through Pay Pal, if it's ok with you send me a Pay Pal money request, here's my Pay Pal email ***** at live.com, if you don’t have Pay Pal e-mail you can just sign up with pay pal at www.paypal.com. Please, hopes to hear from you soon.

Best,
Don.

[snowshoe]

Yes scam ... the good news is you have recognized what is going on.  Seems many cannot and then blame PayPal.

[dpoptart]

Hello, I also just got a response from a craigslisting, although I put my phone number in the add so I received a text in response to my add. I spoke to this man by the name BUCK  he stated he was from Mas and was a enginer in the Marines. He was wanting to buy my JIMMY for his son as a surprise gift.  In a total of 30 minutes he wanted my vehicle, sight unseen, knowing the title was lost  and had to be filed fort which would take 2 weeks to get back, and it having trans issues. He stated since he was out on the boat and could not pick it up himself he would arrange for a "AGENT" to pick it up for him sometime before 1 on Monday. He required that I have a paypal account to get payment which  he was also sending the 500 extra and I needed to send that via money transfer to his agent. I stated that I could do that and so within 5 minutes I had a email from Paypal stating the 2000 was in my account and I was looking over the receipt and it gave me instructions to send the money to the agent and when the email to the the paypal representative looking over this transaction had received confromation to the money being sent the funds would be released.....that was the second thing the whole thing made me step back and say this aint right.