Am I about to get scammed?

withatwist said:

I've entertained one of these scams out of pure boredom and what they do is after you give them your PayPal address, they send you a bogus email from "PayPal" stating that you received money but the money can't be released into your PayPal account until you mail item. What was strange and totally not sounding like a scam (being sarcastic) is that the scammer also told me to make sure I checked my spam email folder which is where this email of course landed.

Obviously, when you log into PayPal there are no pending transactions and the email makes it clear that there won't be any pending transactions showing up in your account until the package is shipped.

I played around with the scammer for like a week wasting his time and getting him excited. I even gave him a tracking number of an item that I had actually shipped somewhere else.

I eventually called him out on the scam and asked why he was scamming people. Then he cussed me out and had the nerve to call me dishonest as if I was the one scamming him, lol.

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