Burned on eBay

As I reported yesterday, the device that I had won at Lotusphere finally showed up in the mail. After trying to carefully word an ad and decide on a selling price, I was content with what I was asking and opened the bidding on eBay. I put a starting bid of $150 with a buy it now at $250. So with that posted, I went off to bed dreaming of how to spend my riches.
Upon walking up this morning, I noticed an email saying that the item had been sold! For the top $250 price! All excited, I get dressed and headed down to the computer to send an invoice for their purchase. Shortly after that on the way to work I get the following message on my BlackBerry:

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:17:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Taresa Evans
Subject: Re: You Won eBay Item: NOKIA E62 CINGULAR BRAND NEW IN BOX! (230110477802)
To: andy.donaldson@blah.com
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Hello,
Greetings to you.I am Mrs Taresa Evans from wyandotte,MI .I'm contacting you
concerning your item on Ebay which i eventually became the winning bidder for
your item.Morever i'm presently serving our beloved nation here in Ca
with the United Nation and i intend sending this item to my GrandSon as suprise
gift who works with the American Embassy in Lagos,Nigeria as a consular.
I will be making my payment to you via PayPal and calculate how much it will
take you in sending this item to him in Lagos Nigeria and add it to the cost of
the item okay. So get the package ready for immediate shipment for next day
shipment okay and don't forget to send me your PayPal Email Address so i can
immediately make out my payment.Plz i want the item to be shipped via EMS
Speed Post or USPS Global Express.Mail me back it's urgent.
Regards
Here Is My GrandSon Shpping Address
NAME: MARTINS FRANCIS
ADDRESS: NO 2 OBA AKRAN AVN
CITY: IKEJA
STATE: LAGOS
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
ZIP CODE: 23401
So just find the shipping cost to Lagos Nigeria and get back to me immediatly....

A couple things sprang to mind after reading that email:

1. No one that I have ever met from the Detroit area starts a conversation, let alone an email with "Greetings to you"
2. The line "serving our beloved nation in Ca with the United Nations". Either the UN has opened up shop in California or Canada. The registered address for this person is in Michigan. Hmm...something smells fishy.
3. You want me to send it to Nigeria? I know that are a lot of anti-spam rules regarding Nigeria.
   

So once in the office, I started doing some digging and Googled the mailing address listed in the above email. Google sent me to this link. I'm not the only victim from this moron.
In the end eBay said that they would credit me my selling fees and I can relist the device. Dang it! I wanted to buy my new camera lenses this weekend! The items back up for bid but with some changes and hopes that I can actually sell it this time.
Frackin' scammers! Keep your fingers crossed for me.