So I'm selling a laptop on eBay, and I had received a message from someone who has no feedback on anything and he said that he is willing to pay more than the price of the laptop in order to have it shipped internationally for shipping and handling costs. So I accepted the offer and told him to send me the money to my PayPal account. He then told me that he sent the money to my account, I got an email from PayPal saying that $X amount of money has been deducted from the buyer and that in order for the transition to go through I have to give him the tracking #. I feel like it might be a scam but at the same time I feel it is not since the email is from PayPal. What do you guys think? Thanks in advance!

Yes, it is a scam. NEVER do an off-eBay transaction for anything, especially something expensive. You have NO protection from fraud.

Follow these steps to protect yourself from scammers:

1. Add this known scammer to your blocked bidders list.

2. Under Site Preferences / Buyer Requirements, block all bidders without a Paypal account, with 2 unpaid item strikes in the last 12 months, and who live in countries you don't ship to, and check the box that blocks them from contacting you.

3. Also under Site Preferences, create an exclusion list that blocks every country except the one you live in.

4. Relist the laptop with no international shipping.

5. To prevent deadbeats, list it in Fixed Price format with immediate payment required. Make sure the Best Offer checkbox is NOT checked.

If anyone sends you an offer through eBay Messages, do not respond. Just add them to your blocked bidders list.

The email you got from PayPal was fake. Forward it to spoof@paypal.com and they will respond. Look in your PayPal account. There will NOT be a payment there. This is an old scam, don't fall for it.

Yea if it;s not a one of a kind collectable like they sell ion auctions ,that double price option sounds very suspicious. Could be a stolen palpal account, on Craigslist people commonly ask you to use a portion fo an overpayment to pay some shipping service (that is actually the scammer profiting from a bad check)

Anyone who offers more than the price is trying a scam.