Hi i have someone who bought a phone off me from ebay he first wanted to pay $550 but i was only asking for $450 and he wanted me to send it to the us. I priced it with aus post and it was only going to cost $23.00 so i agreed. Within a few hrs of agreeing he said he had sent me paypent via my paypal. I checked my account and there was no money there or even pending. Then a confirmation email came through it didn't look like it was from paypal so i checked with their phishing email check and the said it was a phishing attempt. I then messaged the buyer back asking to send me payment the correct way through paypal or i won't send the item. This is the response i got... "New message from: williasmit921 Hello, Your money has already been deducted from my PayPal account but PayPal centre here in North Carolina said the money will be on pending till you ship the item due to the several bad experiences most of their customers shared with them. They said some customers complained that after sending money to some sellers, they received the money but never send the items they paid for, and that's why they came up with this policy and stand as intermediary between both the sellers and their customers just to make us be on a safer side and also to prevent us from being duped by Internet fraudsters. They insisted that the item must be shipped first and you get back to them with scan copy receipt of the shipping for shipping verification before your PayPal account can be credited. Best regards " What do i do??? I don't want to send the phone unless I'm guaranteed payment. Is this person trying to scam me???
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