i paid £700 to a coont from leicestershire, same sort of thing, "sorry you cant collect, our baby has just had an operation and things are hectic right now" so with the fact he had over 1000 positive feedbacks (yes 1000 !) i paid through paypal.

Robbed ! little shite was using a dodgy address, just some foreign old woman there who didnt have a clue what was being said.

This was about four months back and ive only just got the money back, had to go through police and they sent off to the phone companies for records and eventually arrested him and siezed his pc stuff. Copper asked me if i got the money back would i be prepared to leave it at that and not take it to court.
Being as im not too flush i had to say yes.

Got a cheque, which cashed ok from either his mam or his missus,
silly bint sent it special delivery and it had the postcode of their real address
on the back