Hi... So I decided I was going to sell my prom dress on kijiji since I wasn't going to wear it again... I put my phone number in the description and so someone contacted me and asked me if I'm still selling it so I answered yes. Basically the person said she wasn't in town so they'd send a pick-up agent to get the dress but she never cared to mention that I had to pay for it... So she asked me to send her my paypal email and I didn't really have one until now so I used my sister's and she didn't mind... But I received an email instead of a notification on paypal and it said she paid 380$ which is 130$ more than my dress was and it said that I had to go to the nearest MoneyGram and send 130$ to an agent from Nigeria... I'm from Canada. Also there was no money transfers on my paypal. So I started to be suspicious of this person. I nicely asked her to cancel it since I haven't claimed anything. She kept on insisting she couldn't cancel it because paypal had her money and wouldn't release it until I pay the amount of 130$. She threaten me of reporting me to the paypal security and she did so I received a bunch of email and one of them said I'd be jailed for 4 months if I didn't follow the instructions. I started making research on known paypal scam and I decided to send a dispute request. Should I be worried? Is this clearly a scam? Or am I paranoid?
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