This person answered an add i posted on craigslist Said he wanted to purchase the product for his son and after coming to terms we agreed to go through Paypal and have it shipped FedEx. As i waited for the funds to clear my account a E-Mail come to me from what i thought was PayPal it said that the funds were there but would be credited to my account when i sent them a tracking # so i forwarded the tracking #. and as it said in the letter it could take 24 to 48 hrs to show up in my account.
I waited three days and still nothing. Then another E-Mail from PayPal came that said that there was a problem with my account, that the funds could not be credited to my account because it was not a Business account and in order to release the funds the person that purchased the product would need to deposit $600.00 in to my account and that would upgrade my account.
At this point i feel a loss and knew there was something wrong I have a Merchant account ID, and all this time the person is still communicating with me by text asking me if i had got the money yet, and telling me that the funds had been deducted from his account. When i told him about the PayPal letter he said no no that i needed to pay the $600 after all it was my account.  Bottom line i lost for the first time on craigslist to a scam.  (i must say that i have done Buss. on craigslist for over 15 years and have shipped and sold a lot of stuff and made a lot of money and this was the first time i got cough in a scam )
I believe him to be fraudulent, and for sure the E-Mails were NOT From PayPal.
They got me for just under $200.00