OK, my friend bought two XBox 360s just to turn around and sell them. They are currently going on eBay in the $600 range, which is double what he paid. Some of the ones that ship overseas go for more and one went the other day for $2500. Granted, that is nuts, but my friend listed his with a $2600 buy-it-now. So, some guy buys-it-now. Sounds cool and fishy at the same time, so he sends an invoice through eBay. and gets this response: 
(sorry, it wouldn't format, but it looked a lot better in the email)

[color:"#000080"]>From: mike ferguson <[email protected]>
>To: reresadler@msn.com >Subject: Re: You Won eBay Item: Microsoft
Xbox 360 - SHIPS WORLDWIDE >ASAP!!!! (8240761538) >Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005
10:12:18 -0800 (PST) > >hello, > How are u doing taday,i want to no
maybe the item is in normal >condition and to hear from you the total cost of
the item okay,My name is >Mike ferguson,am purposely in Korea because of the
general meeting that we >be taking place at (W.H.O) branch office in Pattaya
,A friend of my >introduce me to ebay.com, that i can get a gift for my son
for this >Christmax session, schooling in a College in Africa,at College of
Education >in Lagos,that should require international shipping so you can
calculate >the shpping cost with the total payment of the item okay, the
payment we be >made via paypal,if you are ok with tha method of payment you
can get back >to me with your paypal mail account asap. Name..Adekunle >Lanre,Address.....45
dada st,City...ifako Ijaiye,Agege,State...Lagos >state..Zip
code...23401,Country...Nigeria. > Best Regard.



OK, we have all seen something like this before, but this is a weird one because the buyer made it onto eBay
with a legitimate account and will pay with a supposed legitimate Paypal account. 
I'm thinking they set it up with a stolen credit card.



So, my friend emailed him back and said that everything was on the invoice and that since he used buy-it-now, shipping was free.



The he gets an email (supposedly) from Paypal. The scammer obviously swiped a Paypal page for the graphics, but I have only included the relevant text. It looks real:



[color:"#000080"]Dear [color:"#000000"](*name removed to
protect the innocent*)[color:"#000080"],

https://www.paypal.com/affil/[email protected]



***ATTENTION***





You have been sent a PayPal® payment of $2,600.00 from one of our

client, Mrs Susan for a recent Ebay item bought from you.





PayPal® Payment : $2,600.00 USD



Ebay Item : 8240761538



Below is the shippment information as shown in the payment credit card.



Name : Lanre Adekunle

Address : 45 Dada Street

City : Ifako Ijiaye Agege

State : Lagos

Country : Nigeria

Zipcode : 23401

Phone : 2348034401513



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

shippment tracking number is send to our customers service for shippment

verification so as to secure both the buyer and the seller. Below are the

necessary information requested before your account will be credited.



1 : Make sure the approved mail contain the total amount for the item

bought.



2 : Make sure you ship the item to the buyer address above immediatley

you recieve this approved confirmation.



3 : Make sure the shippment tracking number is send to our customers

service for shippment verification so as to secure both the buyer and the

seller.



4 : Make sure the shippment tracking number is send to us ONLY through



([email protected])



5: Make sure the shippment tracking number is send to us ONLY and not the

buyer.



You can contact our customer service care at



([email protected])



Thanks for using PayPal®. We look forward in serving your online payment.



Sincerely.



PayPal logo Internet Merchant Accounts - MerchantPlus.com



BUYER SHIPPING OPTION





So, we have the common misspellings and things that don't match like names (and
the Nigeria thing is a dead giveaway), but the tricky thing is that you have to give a
tracking number BEFORE the Paypal goes through. So, you send the item, forward
the tracking number, and never get the Paypal transaction. I wonder how many people this has snagged?? I think most people would trust eBay and Paypal enough to fall for it.