Potential Fraud

[Leuk]

Hey there, 

I recently posted some furniture to Gumtree to sell them, then a buyer asked my email address because they cannot talk to me on the Gumtree for some reasons. In the beginning, everything looks fine, he said he wants to buy it for his son and so on, and he would like to do the transaction on PayPal. After I replied to him with my PayPal account, he suddenly told me that he has funded me $1300 (the furniture price we agreed is $300) include an extra fee $1000 for delivery and pick up agent. And then some emails from "PayPal" sent to me and informed me how to continue the transaction. That is when I started to suspect this is a scam. 

Sorry for my bad grammar if I did not explain everything plainly, I am an international student and English is not my mother tongue. I just try to figure out is this real in case I misunderstood him. I have forwarded the email to spoof@paypal.com  but no one replied to me. So could you guys please help me and tell me whether this is real.  I have added the original email from him into this thread. 

Thank you very much for your time!

Keemail from "PayPal"

[kernowlass]

@Leuk 

Can't see your screenshots but its a common scam.

SCAM.

They encourage you to accept a 'direct' Paypal payment.
No funds or activity of the transaction shows in your Paypal account and any emails 'may' go into your junk/spam folders.

They don't quibble on cost and may also say they can't view the item as they are disabled or working abroad etc etc but they will arrange a shipping agent to collect it.

You will get/got a "fake" email that looks as though it is from paypal.....it isn't because they don't actually have a Paypal account and have no intention of paying you.
It will say the buyer has paid ...you won't have been paid.

The 'fake' paypal email will tell you that the buyer has paid for the item + shipping costs but you must send those shipping costs to the courier/ shipping agent via anther payment processor than Paypal OR via providing some vouchers or tokens before the funds are released to you.
They are not interested in the item, they just want that couriers/shipping funds and you will never see money in your paypal balance.

Paypal NEVER tell you to send an item before the payment is showing in your paypal account.
Paypal NEVER expect you to use a rival money transfer service eg Moneygram or Western Union, Bank Transfer etc.
Also their is no seller protection on paypal for any type of item that is collected by the buyer.

Delete any emails and ignore the scammers.

[Leuk]

Thank you @kernowlass  very much! 

Because I did not do a lot of sell-my-stuff things since I went abroad, so quite confused if it is a common way people asks email and bank account and so on to do transactions. Really appreciate your advice!! 

By the way, is there any way I can report this scammer so no more people get fraud? For example, report their account or their email to any organisation or department?

In the end, thanks again! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Leuk