I have a friend who was selling some dogs in the newspaper and the same thing happened to her. These people were from out off state and were going to send someone to pick up the dogs. She fell for it and told them to send the travelers checks, but after she got them got suspicious and went on-line to check out the travelers checks and the numbers that were on them didn't exist. Luckily she hadn't cashed them yet.
There are many variations of this type of scam, I had the same thing happen to me in regards to winning a "contest" twice in the last year. I received checks in the mail from "winning" some contest I supposedly entered, but weirdly the checks were from some random company that had nothing to do with the name of company that was notifying me.
All I had to do was cash them and send the people an administrative fee of x amount of dollars. I was immediately suspicious and got the phone number of the company issuing the checks off the internet and called them. It was a car dealership in the Midwest, and when I explained why I was calling them they immediately put me through to the CFO of the company. He put me on speaker phone and called a lawyer into the room and had me describe the letter and the check. He said mine was the second phone call that they received that week, that apparently these were checks that had disappeared several years ago, and had apparently been washed and rewritten. He gave me the # of an FBI agent that was handling the situation, and asked me to call him.
Very strange, I have no idea how they got my name, and picked me for a mark.
This happened to LadyRev on Ebay. She was selling her truck and someone from South America said he'd send her the money plus some extra and have his agent pick up the truck.
Luckily, she decided to sell it to me instead!!
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I just sold our Hammond church organ to a Luthren church 3 hours away from us, on craigslist. Had another E-mail from a Methodist church also about three hours away.
Next I sold one of extra pianos on Craigslist.
Woked good for me and it's a free listing.
BTW we use a Roland keyboard now that does it all !
That is a nice keyboard, but a Roland keyboard cannot do what a Hammond (one with a Leslie speaker) can do...
Anybody here use craigs list to sell items? I live in a small town, and use their service to drive sales at my computer store. Most of the time, I do very well. I put a listing on the Memphis craigslist over the weekend, and an email reply came back thusly:
I am in the process of moving, but desire your item. If you send me your name and address, I will send you a cashier's check for double the amount of your item. Please cash the check and give the excess to my movers, who will be picking up the item and bringing it to me, for their payment.
Anyone suspicious about this, or is it just me? There has been a rash of this stuff in the newspapers lately. It is a variation of the old africa scheme to get your bank accounts to withdraw instead of depositing money to you.
Anyone ever experience this?
This kind of request I would not comply with. What has happened in Milw these so called movers.
Pack inside the package other things..
When and if they get caught they tell authorites they picked the item up at your place of business.
Anybody here use craigs list to sell items? I live in a small town, and use their service to drive sales at my computer store. Most of the time, I do very well. I put a listing on the Memphis craigslist over the weekend, and an email reply came back thusly:
I am in the process of moving, but desire your item. If you send me your name and address, I will send you a cashier's check for double the amount of your item. Please cash the check and give the excess to my movers, who will be picking up the item and bringing it to me, for their payment.
Anyone suspicious about this, or is it just me? There has been a rash of this stuff in the newspapers lately. It is a variation of the old africa scheme to get your bank accounts to withdraw instead of depositing money to you.
Anyone ever experience this?
I've bought several items on Craigslist and have only been mislead once. I have also sold a few things and had great results, no scams.
I just sold our Hammond church organ to a Luthren church 3 hours away from us, on craigslist. Had another E-mail from a Methodist church also about three hours away.
Next I sold one of extra pianos on Craigslist.
Woked good for me and it's a free listing.
BTW we use a Roland keyboard now that does it all !
I sold an antique piano and an electronic drum machine...great results!!
Anybody here use craigs list to sell items? I live in a small town, and use their service to drive sales at my computer store. Most of the time, I do very well. I put a listing on the Memphis craigslist over the weekend, and an email reply came back thusly:
I am in the process of moving, but desire your item. If you send me your name and address, I will send you a cashier's check for double the amount of your item. Please cash the check and give the excess to my movers, who will be picking up the item and bringing it to me, for their payment.
Anyone suspicious about this, or is it just me? There has been a rash of this stuff in the newspapers lately. It is a variation of the old africa scheme to get your bank accounts to withdraw instead of depositing money to you.
Anyone ever experience this?
It's a scam, I have been doing the ebay and craiglist for awhile, they tweak it every now and then but the same old scam. If you want to be cruel play along with them.
Keith
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