Scammed on selling!

[scamvictim1]

Hello, I have been incredibly stupid and sold my laptop on craiglist to a person who claimed they were in Malaysia. They told me to send a money request and I did. Later, I got a email "from paypal" that confirmed that the person has deposited the money but paypal will not give it to me until I send the tracking number and the item arrives in the country of origin. 

After the package arrived, I did not recieve any money and I realized that the email that was from a fake account with paypal as its name.

I am incredibly stupid. Please advice, is there anything I can do? I have email proof that the deal did take place...

[kernowlass]

@scamvictim1 

SCAM.

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

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.
They will tell you that the payment is released when you provide paypal with a tracking/shipping number......this won't happen.

Paypal NEVER tell you to send an item before the payment is showing in your paypal account.
Paypal do not tell you to send trackable, they advise it for selling protection but it is not compulsory.
Sadly as no part of the transaction was actually done using Paypal then nothing that they can do about it unfortunately.