When I was trying to rent out a common room and was contacted by this woman who claimed she is currently in China but now in doha for a conference. it seemed legitimate at first when she sent me a front and back photo of a Singapore ic "chan wai yee"( the name was different from that of the email) and a supposed photo of her. She requested that i set up a paypal account so that she could transfer the money. I told her I didn't have one, when i actually did, to delay time. long story short, she told me she transferred money to my paypal account but when i logged in i did not see any payment made to me. i checked the email which she supposedly send the receipt from but it was a dud email. She requested that I transfer over $1450 by western union to an account in Texas USA for the freight fee for her "furniture"/ and I had to do it by today.

Anyway, many red flags shown along during our conversation like she couldn't even produce details about herself. 

Be careful of such scam!