Selling on Craigslist, no, I WON’T mail you the item to Nigeria!

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Seriously? I placed an ad on Craigslist, trying to sell my camera, still good, but I got a cute little red one now, with better MPs, and SO light! But we’re not talking about the new one, we’re talking about the old one. It’s a HP M525, still a good model, 6 MP, silver color, uses rechargeable batteries, etc, I offered 40 bucks for it, I listed what community I live in, I made sure the correct province was selected, blah blah blah. The first 2 offers I got? I’ll send you the money via paypal, and I want you (no request, straight with the demanding, gee, THAT’S a good sign) to mail this to my brother/friend in Nigeria. The first one I said, alright, great, I’ll do that, BUT what I need from you is your paypal address, and the Mailing address that I would be mailing this to, so that I can get you the shipping charge as well, to include on a paypal invoice I will send to your PAYPAL address. First reply from the first person? Mailing address, no paypal email. My SECOND hint that this may just be a scam, my first was the whole, “But you have to mail it to my brother/friend in Nigeria.” SO, I tried to get a quote for him anyways, using the address they provided, and the address didn’t work. GREAT. So I replied, “Hey dude, the address doesn’t want to give me a quote, AND I STILL need your paypal email address to send you an invoice. Only way I’m doing this.” Their response, “Oh, so sorry, here is a different address, try this, and what is your email address so that I can send you the money. COMPLETELY ignoring my request, as the SELLER, the one in the control for the transaction. My next email to them? Plain and simple, “Deal off.” Second buyer, whom I’m still dealing with, same issue, not quite giving me, his paypal email, until I got strick with him. They ACTUALLY used a phishing account to send me a “email payment confirmation”. It looks similar to the Paypal emails, but enough differences that I could definitely tell that something’s up. One was the different font used, two was the layout, three was the fact that it said “Hello candymarie@gmail.com,” not my name, like Paypal emails always have. SO, after finally getting their email, I sent the invoice, clearly stating what the invoice was for, camera with shipping charges. I wrote back to them as well: “There invoice has been sent, you should have received it by now, I shall be checking the status via MY paypal page, and do NOT tell me to just go ahead and ship the item because the money is on hold, because I checked my account, and there is no pending status at all. No indication that you sent anything, and no, it is NOT for both of our protection, because that is utter crap. It doesn’t work that way with eBay, it doesn’t that way with me. Now stop stalling, because you were certainly rushing me with responses.Want the camera? Confirm your payment.” Harsh yes, but this is just getting ridiculous. If this happens to be real, great! If not, then I am heavily editing my ad to: I will NOT ship this item anywhere, you want it, we’ll meet up, so you want me to mail it to Nigeria? Screw you! Lol. Has this happened to any of you? OH! Here's an update! Got his response before I posted this, so here it is!!: "Hello Is like you are trying tO fraud me,i had made the payment to you but you refused to ship the items to the designated address after you have received the payment confirmation from paypal which is against the paypal rules and terms of conditions and in most the Laws of United State.If you dont want me to take a legal action against you as an UN diplomatic officer,You have to ship the item to the designated address within the next 12 hours.Again the item is to be shipped to the beneficiary in Nigeria and the address is as shown below: Bashiru Ismaheel 30,IJEUN STREET,ITOKU, ABEOKUTA,OGUN STATE. NIGERIA.234-039 BE WARNED.................." LMAO!!! I wish I could post my response before his response into more detail, but I unfortunately have to admit that I was cussing...a LOT! lol