First text message thanks me for responding. This is the second text message and is immediately obvious that it's a scam. While I hate scammers like this, I have zero sympathy for idiots who fall for this type of crap. It doesn't take rocket scientist to figure out something is wrong. Just in case he is stupid enough to actually send money, I tell him I only accept PayPal gift (so he won't be able to dispute the transaction).

Here I give him my name, but I misspell it knowing that a legitimate email from PayPal will get it correct. Sure enough, I get an email addressed to the misspelled name. The email looks fairly legit except for the obvious signs like the reply address is not remotely close to any paypal.com address, the content is complete BS about how PayPal works, and the shipping address is Nigeria

Here I troll him a bit saying that I already procured a shipping carrier. Lonestar overnight is a regional shipping company and has only recently expanded it's shipping coverage outside of Texas The phone number he is using is registered to 2220 West 1st Street in Duluth, MN, so I mentioned that I was shipping the package there - he was a little surprised lol

And finally, I reveal that I've just been wasting his time