This just happened to me a few days ago!
I posted my kobo ereader for sale up on kijiji, and all of a sudden I get a text message thats a local number saying to email them because they're interested.
So this person in the email claims to be Angelina **bleep** who's out of state for military purposes. Pretty bad grammar for someone who's in military training.
This person made a payment right away of 150 dollars. Their emails look so genuine.
I was so close to shipping it but I was too lazy (thank god for that).
It wasn't until I checked my emails on my computer that the emails were coming from: marybills on behalf of service paypal, it raised a very high red flag.
So I re-read a couple of emails from "paypal" and most of their lines were used by the person claiming to be Angelina.
That's when I called paypal to cancel the transaction, they said there is nothing pending in your account.
I spoke with the paypal employee for suggestions on how they would stop harrassing me.
I took his suggestion to email them "Sorry found another buyer" then this person says I need to give him a refund haha. So what I did was I sent him an email saying
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" Nice try. Do you want the police to refund your money? Cause my brother is a cop. I've already reported your emails and what not, they're probably tracking you right now actually. Is scamming people online your business? cause that's pretty sad. You better make a run for it, I suggest you go start packing. Cheers loser."
Just to scare them a bit, as I was being threatened that if I do not ship the item within 24 hours they would permanently disable my account and open up some case to embarrass me. What a bunch of idiots.
