The exact same thing happened to me just last week, I sold an old iPhone 4 for the total sum of £290.00 as a "buy it now" price (which is what eBay had advised). It was my first time selling on eBay and using PayPal for a transaction. After reading the email from the official eBay address saying the item had sold and I had a message waiting from "Vickky" (who I now know is a man in Essex) asking me to send her/him an invoice through PayPal. That I did. I then recieved another email from PayPal saying they would credit me the money owed as soon as I emailed them the tracking number for the parcel when I sent it. I was given 24hours to do it or they would contact me again. I did as I was told and sent the parcel and emailed the tracking number and got a reply saying the money would be credited. After 24hours of waiting for the credited money it was still not given to me, I emailed questioning the where abouts of this credited money as it was not transacted "instatly", the fake PayPal emailed and said the buyed had "accidently" credited £400 and I was to send the money owed to the buyer back to him otherwise I would not be credited. It was beyond me that someone could make this mistake, so I emailed a complaint and assured the PayPal team I would not be sending the money to anyone until I had been credited my owed money. I instantly got an reply, saying I was breaching PayPal policy, they would not entertain me with their response but legal action would be taken upon me if I did not do as asked. After putting money into a bank account (I was given the sort court and account number) I had to produce a reciept and was told again that the money would be instantly transacted. After another 24hours there was no money, I checked the email addresses and although they were sent on "behalf" of eBay and PayPal, the email addresses had begun to change. This of course rung alarm bells so I rung PayPal action line where they confirmed this was a scam. I have rung the police, fraud agencies, PayPal complaints, eBay complaints and customer service and the bank. None of which can do anything about the matter or advise me what to do next, just keep reminding me that I have been a victim of fraud and to not send anything to Nigeria again. I find it completely disgusting that not only was this done in 3 working days, but no one is interested nor "able" to do anything to take action against these people. The bank account used for this person I have now found out is in Chelmsford in Essex, the police nor the bank society itself care, and believe they cannot do anything even though it is evidently a frauding account where the email's ip address is still live and running as you read this. My suggestion to you all is when using PayPal to ring and confirm the address, I know this is a trouble and hassle, however, it is time taken out to assure you will not getting frauded as I or the others below me did. The postal address is still the same as the one listed below, the package was picked up and signed for.
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