PRETTY SURE I'M BEING SCAMMED AS WE SPEAK - PLEASE ADVISE.... "Sold" iPhone 6plus on Ebay, bid was won at the last second by a "smithsuk0", at this point i'm thinking GREAT, UK shipping address...no worries. I then recieve an Ebay message from the 'buyer' saying; "Just won your auction and I will like to make a prompt payment via paypal, kindly log into your account and send me a money request to my email so I can transfer fund ASAP" ...stupidly it seems, I obeyed the orders and sent a money request through the PayPal app. I then recieve a private email saying the payment has been made and to check my 'inbox, spam or junk', in the same email he asks me to send to his Cousin in Nigeria as it's a surprise gift. The delivery address was given; Jerry Dammy, 109 Adefemi Street Abesan Ipaja Lagos 23401 Nigeria ...at this point im thinking something isn't right and decide i'd Google Maps the address out of curiosity and before I even got to Google Maps....bam! Here we are. I'm unsure of what to do next (PLEASE HELP), what type of scam are we looking at here?! Is it simply a ship-never get paid scam whereby I can just tell this bloke to get on his bike or is it PayPal details leading to bank fraud scenario whereby, well im f**cked! Any advise would be great, I will be ignoring emails from the so-called buyer until then.
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