I have an ad on Craigslist and ythe selling price is $1000.00. I had a buyer email me that she wanted to purchase the item via Paypal and I set up an account. Now she sent the email below. Is this even legal if I were dumb enough to agree to it ? Please see below: rom: fiona l caletri [ Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 4:38 PM To: Antior, Belinda G [CH-REL] Subject: Re: Queen Size Bedroom Set - $1000 (Flint) Hi, i need you to do me a big favor, i just got a message from head quartz of the shipping company that will come for the pickup which is in the UK that i need to pay a total commission of about $520 in USD conversion to them before the pickup can be registered and it should be paid via westernunion ONLY and there is no western union outlet at my present location to send the money to them over here and also you can do it online via Thx for your help. if you have a credit card as mine as expired and i have ver got the time to request new one or at any post office.so all i need from you is the permission to include the said amount to the payment i will be transferring into your paypal account and you will help me wire the money to them for the pickup as soon as you get it, paypal will be informed about this process as well.Sorry to put this on you but without the pickup, the purchase cant hold.
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