this EXACT scenerio (albeit different players) is what I got caught in over 5 years ago ...
A guy came to me (even vouched for by somebody I knew .. ) asking me to flip paypal to epassporte, and turns out the paypal he paid me with was a compromised account. Some Chinese scammer living in US.
Eventually, after several correspondences, Anne - the other party involved in this scam - realized that her and I were BOTH victims of this asshole, and she and I became friends - or at least "friendly". She even tried to help me have the report she filed at
RipoffReport.com rescinded, but they tried to extort us for several hundred dollars to have it removed, so the report remains.
This also got my personal PayPal account SHUT DOWN!! Since I had received fraudulent funds, I was guilty of money laundering, regardless if I was a willing participant or not.
Rand was my account manager at Epassporte at the time, and did everything in his power to try to help me recover the funds, but of course this guy did not leave them in his account, so all they could do was close his epass account
Like I previously said, the only reason why I did the transfer, was that somebody I knew vouched for this guy. It was very hard lesson to learn, but I am much more wise with my online transactions because of it ..