Your misuse of the site does not imply that the site/site users are scammers.
Buying Bitcoin using PayPal or gift card "In addition to the risk of scam, you can buy stolen cards" is even riskier with the use of an escrow service.
I don't know if paxful imposing KYC
for gift cards ----> https://copay.io/ or https://wegift.io/coinbase/
for PayPal -----> https://www.virwox.com/

my Blacklisted Exchanges:

 - https://yobit.net/
 - https://wex.nz
 - https://spectrocoin.com/
 - kitebitcoin