Thanks to my vigilant fiancée he encouraged me to investigate if this dude was a scammer and sure enough he was! Mr. Fred Williams you are not going to fool me and I hope this note will stop others from getting scammed too.
This is what he tried to say in the text...
i hope the ad is real cos i will be Wanting you to help me with the postage to my Cousin in Montreal Quebec as a gift since am not available for the pick up,and am gonna be offering you 1,400$ for everything including the shipment fee to it's destination thanks.?
The man then went and created an email under the guise of PayPal
This PayPal® payment has been deducted from the buyer's account and has been "APPROVED" but will not be credited to your account until the shipment reference / tracking number is sent to us for verification so as to secure both the buyer and the seller.Below are the necessary information requested
before your account will be credited. Send the tracking number of the package to our customer-care at
[email protected]
and our Customer security service center will attend to your tracking number.
As soon as you send us the shipment's tracking number to us for security purposes and the safety of the buyer and the seller,the money will be credited to your account.
His email is
[email protected]
He sent two emails from PayPal. One with some other name Ashley Walton
Watch out for this trickster!!!