I posted a selling for a camera on Kijiji and a buyer emailed me saying she was interested and told me to text her.
I texted her (she speaks with broken English) and she told me to do the transactions through PayPal. I opened up a personal PayPal account to deal with this (I have a business PayPal account but did not want to use it for this). I made a money request and sent it to her. She said she received it and said she will make the payment after shipping the item. I did not like the idea of that and suggested that I will show her proof of a shipping label I made to indicate that I am not lying to her and once I send it she will pay me.
I sent her the picture of the shipping label and she said I must have received an email from PayPal saying I got the payment, but I did not. I told her I looked on my PayPal account and did not see the money. She said the payment is pending and I must give PayPal the tracking number first before they can give me the money. I am not sure if thats how it works as I have not used a person PayPal account before and even if this policy is true I was expecting to see something like "Payment on hold from ____" but I did not see any of that. Under the "Recent Activity" where I sent the money request it says "Pending" and beside it "Request Sent". But yea I found things to be very fishy so I suspected this must be a scam.
I cancelled the shipping label and texted her saying I'm not interested in selling anymore and I will cancel the transaction so the money will go back to her. She was very pushy and kept saying the money is deducted from her account and I am scamming her and she will report me to the FBI because the money is taken from her already.
Will everything be fine if I just finish with cancelling the transaction, block her number and probably delete my PayPal account? Even if this was not a scammer and I cancel the transaction the buyer should receive their money back, correct?
I have read about how some sellers who got scammed had to pay, will this happen to me?
