Yes, yesterday I almost fell for a P2P scam. Mine was the regular way these merchants always try to set people up. I had placed an order, and he approved that he had sent the amount to my account, but he did not. I told him he insisted I release it because he had sent it and I would see it in less than 5 minutes. I knew he wanted to scam me, so I left him and slept off. He then knew I wasn't going to fall for his trap and sent the money after so many hours.
This is a regular strategy that scammers use, but the first thing you should know when making use of P2P is don’t release coins if you haven’t received your payment. If the buyer claims they have made payment and you decide to release coins to them, then it turns out to be a scam, and your money is gone. I don’t think there is anything you can do to get your money back. When I am making use of P2P and the buyer keeps on pressuring me to release coin, I do think they are scammers automatically, because if you are not a scammer, you won’t pressure me.
But waking up this morning, a friend of mine had similar issues, but this time the scammer came with a little twist. My friend told me he had placed an order for $70 since he needed some funds. As he wanted to click the sell button, the price changed, and he refreshed it again. So he bothered not to check again and procedd with the order as he got the alert in his phone he saw that the merchacnt changed the order from $1 = 1,460 Naira to $1 = 1,270 Naira.
I don’t really know if you can mention the exchange that your friend used. I know scammers can use that strategy to scam people. That’s why if you are using Binance exchange, before you release a coin, they will ask if you received the actual amount that you are supposed to receive. So when using P2P, make sure you compare the amount you received with the amount you are supposed to receive before releasing coins.