I got screwed in an attempted scam about 8 months ago that involved a Paypal email. I was pretty new to dropshipping at the time and the guy that tried to scam me was actually pretty good. I'll explain below for those of you who care to know...
Here she goes: I advertised a digital camera on Ebay and someone bought it for the buy it now price (which was actually pretty high). Anyway, the guy contacted me and said he didn't want to pay the $10 shipping fee I had listed as he wanted me to ship the camera directly to his friend out of the country (can you guess where?) and he didn't want to pay the extra cost. Instead he would email me a shipping label for fedex which I would use to ship. I figured what the hell so I had netdropshipper sent the camera to me directly.
I had received an email from "Paypal" previously saying that the money had been taken out of the buyers account and put into mine once I sent them a tracking #. I assumed this was a new protection they used as I had not used Paypal in a year or so previously. The email looked very authentic (same header, footer, writing, etc.). So I went ahead and fedexed the camera to this guy once I received it from netdropshipper.
The next day my common sense got the best of me and I called Paypal. It was then I realized this was all a scam. I contacted Fedex immediately and the package had already arrived in Europe and was en route to it's destination in, you guessed it Nigeria. They informed me that it would cost $185 dollars to mail it back to myself (the fedex account that bought the label was set up with a stolen CC). So my other option was to have it destroyed at customs. Seeing as though the camera only cost $80 in the first place it was hardly worth paying $185 to have it mailed back.
So I did the right thing and let the Nigerian keep it. He had earned it afterall. Yeah right! I had them destroy that **** at customs. I wasn't going to let that ***** get anything. Anyway, at least his Paypal scam was reported and the fedex account was shut down. I'm also very happy he didn't receive his free camera. Basically it was a lose-lose for everyone but I am happy it happened. It made me open my eyes and be extremely thorough before doing business with anyone. That $80 has saved me $1000+ on a transaction I might have made instead.