A new form of scam on the net arising

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Actually, i have put up an ad to sell my used digital diary on one of the classified site. And for that I got a response from one person claiming that he belongs to an hospital in some part of africa and he would like to buy that digital diary and in fact he would pay more than the price I have quoted because he claimed that he need that more than anything and needed it urgently. He also talked some sweet words like, I should be very careful with cheaters and I am very good seller, etc. I used to reply to his queries through email. Then he asked me to send that digital diary to another place in africa and this is when I got suspected (this situation is very similar to nigerian scams), then i did not reply to him after that. After some time, I got to read from a blog that someone else was cheated that way, and then only i realised that was a scam. So, I would like to request all of them to be very careful in dealing with situations like this and to just avoid such responses.