I want to let everyone know about this scam I almost bought into. I have been trying to sell some sled parts on here and HCS which alot of people do. I am contacted with this email:


Hi There,
I will like to purchase the above item for a
client who is really interested in it.As you are
the seller,i will like you to supply with the
following information..
1..The cost of it..
2)Present picture
3..present condition..
Payment will be made to you by a Bank certified check
Thanks and i await your response.
Ali

I respond to it with what was asked for and I get this in return:


Thanks for the mail. I need you to know that am well prepared in buying the ITEM from you, I am o.k with the one by you as am very interested in purchasing it.Inrespect of payment.All i will do is to instructan associate in the US to send the check of sum of $4000 on my behalf and when you have gotten the check you will deduct your $400 from the amount and wire the remaining balance via western union money transfer to my international Shipper's,So they will come for the pick up at your location and also to pick some other goods along as soon as payment is received by them.

My shipper's who i have talked things over with on the phone about the pick up says they will want you to make thing's snappy and to make sure that you make all the important papers are in place to avoid shipping delay. My shipper's will email you as soon as you recieve the payment so that they can give you their contact address were you will be wiring the remaining balance to,So that they can come for the pick up at your location as soon possible.

I will like to know if i can trust you to send my balance to the shipper. I am doing this to make the payment easier and faster for you. Furnish me with your full contact details bellow:

Full name to be on the check,
Your contact address and phone number.
Get back to me with the information so that payment can be made which should get to you as soon as possible.
Ali

Well this seems a little fishy to me so I talk to some people and they say the say thing. I think man is this guy trying to launder money or use me as a way to get money to other people in the US or what. So I called the local FBI office and am told this is a scam that unfortunatly happens a lot. I'm told what happens is that whom ever sends you a counterfit cashiers check or money order you go to the bank and cash it then take the remaining money to Western Union and send it on you do this all before your bank finds out the cashiers check is no good and your bank takes the money back out of your account and you are just out of the money because the bank "never takes the hit" and you are just plain out. I wanted to pass this along to anyone to beware of this type of scam.

humm i've never heard of that one yet :doh: :lol2: :smilielol: :lol2:

I must be on a hot list because I get an average 3-4 of these types of E-mails every week. :augen41: I have several sleds advertized in a few places, and someone out there is trying to bait anyone into falling into this trap. :help:
pathfinder58 :cn:

That's the oldest one in the book. I had a guy try to do that to me with a set of rims I was selling. As soon as he responded I knew it was a scam. I told him to F&%#$K off and get a life or I would him! Don't know why, but I never heard from him after that? :smilielol:

SAme happened to me a littl ewhile ago. Sled was 3600 and he sent me 8700. Waited for the cashiers check to clear, it came back counterfiet. I was expectign it though, but i was still ready to kill him. I would have been left with the remainder iof debt from the shipping company, and no sled... Damn people

This is known as the Nigerian scam since a lot of the time they ask you to send the excess funds to an address in Lagos, Nigeria. Guaranteed, the cashier's check is counterfeit.

ok thanks i think i got one of those!!