Hi Olivia, For some reason when I wrote my original post, I was getting repeated errors when trying to log into PayPal. Once I was able to successfully log in, I ended up changing my password and email address just to be safe. Like I posted earlier, something just didn't seem right with this transaction. For the record, the transaction ended up being legitimate (the buyer did send me funds). I still don't like that the buyer disregarded my request not to send funds directly to my Paypal account, because I've heard of numerous scams being perpetrated this way on Craigslist. I received a confirmation of the funds deposit from Paypal (and she sent more than the agreed-upon amount), but that came from the buyer's email account and not from PayPal, and it contained a link supposedly to PayPal for "more information" or whatever. I did not click on that link. I did log into my account directly to see that the funds had been deposited, and called customer service just to doublecheck. I'm also logging into my account daily to make sure that any activity is activity that I've initiated. Thanks for everyone's responses - I appreciate them!
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