A women contacted me to purchase my wedding dress on craigslist, and pay via paypal. All fine and dandy, except she said she paid, but my paypal account says the invoice has not been paid, but "paypal" sent me an email that expect is fraudulant. Merchant Thank you for using PayPal for your online auctions. We at PayPal are ensuring that all our customers and auction site are fraud free. We just want to let you know that we are yet to confirm shipment, as the item has not been posted yet. Kindly get back to us as soon as the item is posted, so that we can confirm shipment and the money will be credited with the sum of $1.200.00 USD into your account immediately. In our efforts to secure our merchants, We are now receiving payments for items that are to be shipped internationally through our secure server. This is to ensure that the seller and buyer do their responsibility in every transaction we handle. We have now received and confirmed payment from Melissa Rochester.This payment of $1,200.00 USD is currently pending to be credited into your account due to the security measures we have taken. You are now required to ship out the item and send us the shipment reference number for verification of shipment. As soon as we have verified the shipment which normally takes about 24 hours, your account will be credited with the full payment. This security methods have been taken due to fraudulent sellers, We await the shipment reference number for verification so we can credit your account immediately,send the reference number to us on our mail at ___________ and please note that you are advised not to send out the shipment reference number to the buyer until we have verified the shipment and credited your account. Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team. Is this a scam?
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