I had experience on eBay of a 'church representative' in New York wanted the item I was selling sent to a Pastor in good old Nigeria. Payment was allegedly made via Paypal and a reasonably convincing looking email from 'Paypal' to confirmed this. Being the suspicious type I forwarded the suspect email to spoof@paypal.co.uk and within a minute my suspicions were confirmed.
Both Ebay and Payal offer excellent services if you are in the least bit suspicious of communications. My advise is make good use of them.
Any thoughts and opinions are purely personal & not representative of any prior, current or future employers. Any resemblance to persons living, dead or fictitious is just shear bad luck