Thanks so much for posting this. I was contacted by maybe the same scammer first through whatsapp in response to an ad I had on Gumtree. This guy asked me to contact him by email and this is what he said - virtually verbatim on what you received. When I saw your post, my suspicions fell perfectly into place! No prizes for guessing what I told him to do... From Adam Richardson <richardsonadam2010@gmail.com> I'm really interested in buying this as a surprise for my cousin but only if you can assure me it's in a good condition. I am a petroleum engineer currently on a rig offshore. I really want this to be a surprise for my cousin so I won't let him know anything about this until it gets delivered to him, I am sure he will be more than happy with it. It will be secured paying via PayFast as I'm on a rig offshore. So let me know if you have an account with Payfast so I can make the payment. Note well: Pickup agent will come for the pickup as soon as I have made the payment.
