I put something up on craigslist ,i got an email and obviously some one is trying to pull off a nigerian scanm thru paypal on me.

Here is the message:

"Hello ,
Thanks for the mail..I want you to know that am buying this item for my son in Nigeria that just got married last week in Nigeria and i will be adding extra $200 for the shipping cost for you also.....So kindly send me your PayPal account email so that i can use it to make the immediate payment for you now.

Thanks and get back to me asap. "


my question is what would happen if i had him send the funds to my account ($200)..and never sent him shit?

He won't send it at all, sound like this is the scam where they spoof a HTML e-mail from paypal saying that the money has been sent to the account (in the hopes that you don't check your paypal and just send the item on or they can trick you into believing that it's a bug that happens sometime and will come through later).

Get him to pay through Western Union (he'll send a cheque/travellers cheque guaranteed).

Read my post on 419 scamming and scam baiting in the money BI style sticky thread.

To answer your question though, you can trick him (if he sends you the money via paypal...I just got the sudden thought he may just do a chargeback on your ass later), have him send the money, say it didn't come through, say you're trying various bullshit solutions and nothings working, then after a while say that you've spoke to a friend an apparently it's a glitch sometimes and to make the money through they have to start a claim against you and then cancel it. Afterwards don't send him fuck all, he'll go to start another dispute/claim against you and won't be able to.

It's easier just to get it through WU or moneygram though.

Tell him you dont have a paypal account, but you'd be glad to split the tab for the funds between you and him. When he pays his share (through western union), don't do shit