I listed a motorcycle on Craigslist and got the same thing. Mine was an oil rig worker. Couldn’t make it to shore, but wanted to purchase full price using paypal.
A few years ago, I listed some appraised high value jewelry and a high end watch for a relative.
None of it sold but I got this persistent scammer with very broken English claiming to be a Marine who couldn’t get any leave from wherever he was. I think he picked random names of bases all over.
After a few days he gave up since I hit him with routine questions and the answers were always different.