I have advertised an item for sale for $1300. I have been contacted by a few potential buyers. The one at the head of the line was being a bit elusive in giving me a shipping address. He has been insistent on using PayPal for the monetary transaction and finally gave me an address in Nigeria to send the item. When I sent the request for payment, the email address that he had been using came up as not a current one that PayPal recognized from a member. I received two emails, allegedly from PayPal, but the sending address is a gmail account. That is a red flag for me. In one of the emails, PayPal says that that email address is a member email address, contrary to the message that I received when I sent the payment request. Another red flag is that there is a PayPal transaction code ID that is 16 characters, digits and letters, long. In one of the emails, it says that the buyer has requested the transfer of the funds from his PayPal account, but they will not be transfered until I give the DHL tracking code. These issues raise huge suspicions to me. I am thinking I should cancel the transaction. Any ideas or feedback for me?
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