<prompt> Human: Hey redditors...so, I moved cross country with my wife and 6-month old, and to help with the costs after moving, I decided to sell my MSI laptop on Ebay. GTX 1060 6 GB dedicated memory, 2.63 GhZ Intel processor, great computer, costs 1,500 retail. Long story short, the item sold for 1,200. Not a bad haul, right? Enough to pay for 2 months of bills as I didnt have a job lined up. Thankfully, I gained employment at an electronics factory and start on Wednesday, so money isnt a critical issue now!Anyways, the seller requested my contact information through EBay, who gladly obliged. His name was Odunjo Williams, odd name, but not enough to make me think scam off the bat. Williams then proceeded to email me fake Paypal emails that looked perfectly legitimate with transaction IDs and the like. He also texted me thanks Ebay, asking for the tracking number. Ive made sales on Ebay before, not at that scale, but I know it can take 2-3 days after youve shipped the item and gotten the tracking number from USPS before Paypal releases the money. So, I went to the local post office, and shipped it out, sending him the tracking number.Fast forward 2 days, money still isnt in my Paypal account, so I call Paypal and get the automated message system. After a few minutes, the automated system tells me that if I dont make sales very often which I dont, then the money can be held for up to 3 days in case anything happens. So I figure Ill wait one more day and then deal with it.So today, I called PayPal and talked to an operator and gave the fake transaction number, which he confirmed as a scam. He pointed me to IC3.gov, which I immediately went to and filed a complaint. I also called Ebay and asked if there is anything they can do, and of course not, thats not part of their corporate policies to clean up their mess.I know this was long, and a lot of ranting. It just makes me upset that Ebay would go and give out my contact info like that, and they arent going to clean it up. My question is, is there any way I can recover that money? And Id certainly be happy to release the scammers personal information that I have, but it likely all leads to burner phones and empty warehouses.Anyways, if you made it this far, thank you! And thank you for any advice you can provide me!  <response>: Im sorry this happened because I also almost fell for a similar fake PayPal email scam while selling concert tickets and was sick to my stomach when I checked my account, but I noticed before it was too late. But this is your mess, eBay has zero liability here unfortunately since you didnt verify the transaction. If the buyer actually paid you, you shipped it, then the buyer tried scamming you eBayPayPal would be able to help you but this is not their mess since you were never actually paid through PayPal for it.My best advice and your ONLY chance to recover the item is to call USPS and request that the delivery is RETURNED TO SENDER. Make sure this is notated on the tracking. Ive had this work in the past when Ive wanted to refuse packages, a competent postman will automatically return to sender instead of delivering it if its notated on the tracking. Let me know if this works for you. 