If you want to understand the scam, here's what's happening:

Okay, so I found a guy on craigslist selling three 3 day passes to Sasquatch. I emailed him, asked a few questions, and he said he wanted to go through ebay as he was new to craigslist, he also links me to his account  and he has some pretty stellar feedback. Anyway, he asks me to send him my name, address, and ebay ID to him via email, and he'll contact ebay for the transaction, and that they will then contact me with an invoice. So I send him the info and receive an invoice.

However, having never used ebay before, a few things were suspicious. First, his username appears NOWHERE on the invoice, only the email I've been contacting him with. Next, the invoice came from transaction.pending@contractor.net which to me does not sound like anything related to ebay. Another thing is I am told in the invoice to use Western Union Money Transfer, as the seller is having problems with paypal.

Here is the email in question 

Next, I googled the name associated with his/her (who knows) gmail account and got an expired craigslist posting, but you can see this:

NCAA Tickets - Nicole Peterson sysu7x@gmail.com is a FRAUD - 7:28pm
15 Mar 2010 ... Because i am new on craigslist i will do this transaction only through eBay.In order to start the transaction through eBay reply me with ...
buffalo.craigslist.org/tix/1645103119.html
user
Someone is trying to scam me on craigslist, send them an email that completely fucks them over.
assistant
If you want to understand the scam, here's what's happening:

Okay, so I found a guy on craigslist selling three 3 day passes to Sasquatch. I emailed him, asked a few questions, and he said he wanted to go through ebay as he was new to craigslist, he also links me to his account  and he has some pretty stellar feedback. Anyway, he asks me to send him my name, address, and ebay ID to him via email, and he'll contact ebay for the transaction, and that they will then contact me with an invoice. So I send him the info and receive an invoice.

However, having never used ebay before, a few things were suspicious. First, his username appears NOWHERE on the invoice, only the email I've been contacting him with. Next, the invoice came from transaction.pending@contractor.net which to me does not sound like anything related to ebay. Another thing is I am told in the invoice to use Western Union Money Transfer, as the seller is having problems with paypal.

Here is the email in question 

Next, I googled the name associated with his/her (who knows) gmail account and got an expired craigslist posting, but you can see this:

NCAA Tickets - Nicole Peterson sysu7x@gmail.com is a FRAUD - 7:28pm
15 Mar 2010 ... Because i am new on craigslist i will do this transaction only through eBay.In order to start the transaction through eBay reply me with ...
buffalo.craigslist.org/tix/1645103119.html
user
Craigslist scammer is an idiot who is not going to post anything on craigslist. I will send an email to cancel the transaction. I will
assistant