So I'm trying to sell my old laptop on Gumtree. Somebody contacts me via e-mail, and immediately the poor/broken English from this man supposedly from Ireland has me on guard. He says he's willing to pay full price plus £30 for shipping to Ireland via Royal Mail Express Delivery. Royal Mail Express Delivery does not ship to Ireland, as it is a British service. He asks for either my bank details or my PayPal e-mail, I give him my PayPal as I do not trust him fully. He then sends me another e-mail saying payment has been made, ship out now. He says PayPal have "informed him about the procedure" I need to go through to accept his money, and to let him know the tracking number. I check my PayPal account and find absolutely no indication of being sent anything, and I receive no e-mail about it. I check my spam folder, and lo and behold there is an e-mail from "PayPal", which I will share with you. I googled the e-mail address it was sent from to see if anybody else had reported it as a scam, as it looks very fishy, and found a notice from PayPal saying that if somebody asks you for your tracking number before you receive any money, it's probably a scam, so here I am to ask.
The e-mail, from "paypaltransfersdepartment" <removed>.
Thank you for your time.
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