PayPal Scam, can I get my payment back?

No. There is no $350 payment for you to retrieve. The scammer hasn't made a payment and isn't ever going to make a payment. The email you received was a fake and you have not been, and will not be, credited at all. Did you ship the camera? Did you make any payments? If not, you're not out anything. If you did, you're out whatever you've sent. In any event, stop dealing with the scammers, there's no way you can ever get them to pay you.

No. There is no $350 payment for you to retrieve. The scammer hasn't made a payment and isn't ever going to make a payment. The email you received was a fake and you have not been, and will not be, credited at all. Did you ship the camera? Did you make any payments? If not, you're not out anything. If you did, you're out whatever you've sent. In any event, stop dealing with the scammers, there's no way you can ever get them to pay you.

100% scam. There is no buyer. There is only a scammer who stole to steal your camera. You will never receive the $350 for your camera, sorry. Your camera is gone and now the scammer is trying to steal $250 of your hard-earned money as well. Ignore those fake Paypal emails and do NOT send your cash to the scammer. The payment will never show up, sorry. There is NO way to ever be paid for you camera, it is gone and anyone who says they can help you get your money back is a scammer trying to steal your money. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be "Paypal" saying "sorry, too much money was sent, kindly withdrawal some and send back to the scammer". Paypal does NOT send such emails, ever. Paypal does NOT have escrow or money holding services like that scammer describes. Paypal does NOT demand you send "excess" money back before the rest of the money is "released". EVER. No exceptions. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of being the perfect buyer, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. If you google "cragislist buyer scam", "fake paypal email scam", "ebay escrow fraud" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near victims of this type of scam. Check out the one and only official paypal website, read up on what paypal does and how it really works.

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Sorry but you have been scammed. You were not paid through Paypal -- you got a fake email from Paypal. Paypal will NEVER ask you to use Western Union If you did not go to paypal.com and verify the money was IN your account before you sent the camera, that was your own fault .You got spoofed Forward any supposed email you got to [email protected] and they will tell you they did not send that email and you just sent $250 and your camera to a Nigerian scammer with no way to get it back Not to mention that Paypal does not allow any accounts in Nigeria due to fraud so nobody in Nigeria could pay you through Paypal.

Sorry but you have been scammed. You were not paid through Paypal -- you got a fake email from Paypal. Paypal will NEVER ask you to use Western Union If you did not go to paypal.com and verify the money was IN your account before you sent the camera, that was your own fault .You got spoofed Forward any supposed email you got to [email protected] and they will tell you they did not send that email and you just sent $250 and your camera to a Nigerian scammer with no way to get it back Not to mention that Paypal does not allow any accounts in Nigeria due to fraud so nobody in Nigeria could pay you through Paypal.