Thread: Beware the scammers

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I sold my four door Plymouth body on Ebay last week and recieved a cashiers check in the mail yesterday. After checking it out with the bank, it was a fake! So real looking you wouldnt believe, even had a perforated edge. Unreal what people will try to pull.

The same way we get up to go to work they do to. Its their job to screw people out of their money.

Yeah, they're out there... A friend of mine sold one of his creations for $32,000. The buyer showed up one evening with a "certified" check and his tow rig. They loaded the car on the trailer and it went away. My friend deposited the check the next morning. The following day he got a call from his bank with the news that the check was a phony! Turns out the guy that "bought" the car is a suspected member of the Chinese mafia! That's been 4 or 5 years ago; he has never been able to get his money or the car. The police told him he might as well write it off. They say there's nothing they can do and if he harrasses the people too much, he could end up dead or he might just disappear!

He told me, speaking from experience, there are numbers on cashier's and certified checks. Call the issuing bank and verify the check is real before you accept it. If you can't verify the check, don't accept it. If the buyer doesn't want to wait or won't allow you to verify, tell 'em to get lost.

Was the check from a 'Real Bank' - be sure to notify them if it was.
They may actually catch them.

Yes, it was. It was from a real account, too. The scammer changed the amount. I fowarded a copy of it to their fraud dept.

Originally Posted by SBC

Was the check from a 'Real Bank' - be sure to notify them if it was.
They may actually catch them.

Been there done that, only I didn't let anything go, I checked it out, They were real, but stolen from a bank in NC! My brother got burned on 4 cashiers checks that the amounts were changed, he lost $8000.00 from someone he knows wife.

They are not going to do anything for anyone that gets theses checks! I have been told by them, all the way to the Secret Service that nope! Your on your own, there is to many of them doing it, and impossible to catch them, they are mostly out of the country, he said I hope they didn't get you to bad, I said ZERO! I don't let Anything leave till I have cash in the hand. They said to bad more people are not like that.
He said he was going to send the cops after me, if I didn't send him my '57 chevy, I said cool, they want to talk to you anyway! Never heard from him again.

Pat

I'm just glad I had it checked out before I let him take the car. Just a lot of little red flags from the beginning. The car isn't worth a ton of money but it still would've sucked if I lost it.

Good catch Falcon i tell them i will ship or release it once checks are cleared . So many out there doing it . I like the cash at pick up but do you really know its real too i wouldn't unless it was Monopoly Money LOL.

It's hard even with cash today; I have found the best way for me is it to have the bank wire money into my account. I have a small account just for that; keep just enough money in it to keep it active. So far so good, I sold a 96 Impala SS with 256 miles on it, a retired guy from the air force flew to the air port rented a car, came with a check from his credit union. We had our bank contact his bank to verify it, and I let him drive the car to Ga. but I kept the title until the check cleared just to make sure. He wasn't happy but that was the only way I was letting the car go.

p.s. this was before 911 2001

Richard

Anyone has to wonder why any buyer NEEDS to be in such a hurry that his check doesn't clear before he takes posession. Red flag if someone is in a big hurry.

Originally Posted by falconvan

I sold my four door Plymouth body on Ebay last week and recieved a cashiers check in the mail yesterday. After checking it out with the bank, it was a fake! So real looking you wouldnt believe, even had a perforated edge. Unreal what people will try to pull.

I'd send the car full of used oil and old lead acid batteries COD to the bastard with a astronomical shipping charge! Make it the toxic advenger. Better yet take a cop with you to deliver it

When you get a buyer from South Dakota who sends a check drawn on a Kentucky bank, but the letter comes from the United Kingdom with no return address, it makes you wonder how anyone could believe you're that freaking stupid!

I sold my 32' to a stranger I met at the swap meet. I told him it had to be a cashiers check drawn from my bank. Then we would go to my local branch, together, to deposit it. That way, the money was deposited immediately, as verified by my bank.

Originally Posted by falconvan

When you get a buyer from South Dakota who sends a check drawn on a Kentucky bank, but the letter comes from the United Kingdom with no return address, it makes you wonder how anyone could believe you're that freaking stupid!

Do you have a name and address on the buyer????? Could do some checking for you.....

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http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/