Some great info here on avoiding online scams, and maybe I just missed it in an earlier post, but another suggestion is to get a totally separate email account for only buying/selling. The easiest way to spot a scam, is to hover your cursor over the email address of the entity contacting you and when it is some weird name/address, it's almost always guaranteed to be an attempted scammer.
When I see one of those, it instantly gets marked as spam and reported...WITHOUT ever opening the email itself or especially clinking on ANY link in the email.
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