Does anybody recognise these photographs?

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The seller stated that he had been a victim of a spoof email and had his Pay Pal account made inoperative. He then asked for me to pay the money into a bank account whose sort number proved to be in Leicester.

Paypal sorts this stuff out pretty quick, it is screaming scam.

It is more likely the person is a scammer who has had his paypal account suspended for scamming which is why paypal won't do business with him anymore...

If you really want to risk it offer to wait a week while he gets his paypal account sorted out, send it via the ebay messaging and refuse to communicate with him outside of it.

But you do realise it's 99% probability scam and and 1% probability legit sale right?