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I posted a parts wanted ad some time ago.  A couple of legitimate contacts were made but the parts were not quite correct.  Then I got an email from someone named Chris Moore who asked it I found the part.  Let him know that I had not.  He said he had it and we agreed on a price.  I said I would pay through Paypal and he gave me a paypal address with someone else's name on it.  Paypal added what I thought was an "insurance" fee of $3.50 so I went ahead.  Moore then contacted me and said the person who got the money refused to give it to him and suggested I pay him again and he would ship the parts.  Yeah, right.
I attempted to open a case with PayPal but surprisingly their "Resolution Center" does not seem to have any category for this sort of issue.
Point is, the warning here should have been heeded.  Use an escrow.  Apparently scammers troll these want ads and use them to find suckers like me.  Lesson learned.