Oh man, sorry to hear that JP, my friend at team17 got scammed in pretty much the same way by some guy in indonesia (ok, warning bells). He had his mobile on ebay and this guy contacted him saying he needed one asap and would he end it early and send it the same day. so, my mate cancelled the auction, got the paypal money in his account and went to the post office at lunch time. Got back to his desk and a couple of hours later paypal took the money back and said it was a fraudulent transaction (from a hacked account). My mate wasn't in time to stop his parcel so he lost the phone / money.
The number of cameras on ebay which are obviously fake auctions was staggering last time I looked. All being sold from legitimate accounts that had been hacked. The one time I asked a guy to make sure the auction was real, which it was, he got really offended that I'd asked and proceeded to abuse me, nutter.
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