Check this out: I'd like to know if anyone's had someone try this on them, and to tip you off to this scam: I've been selling two items on Recycler.com- it's a local SoCal classified ad paper with free ads, and it has a web page,and requires email addresses for internet ad placement. The items I'm selling area
12 spd road bike, and a vintage 6" telescope. So, I get a few phone calls, and several emails from guys from overseas, saying they're real interested and after I send photos, want to buy the bike and telescope, and will I accept a large cashier's check, for about 10 times the asking price? They supposedly have shippers here, who are going to include the items in a shipment which is going out right away. They need me to immediately send them the difference of the large overpayment, from my own account of course, via Western Union back to them to cover shipping. And this will occur before the cashier's check will have time to clear, or be declared bogus. What a joke. At first, it looked like I'd sold both item easily, but of course, it was too good to be true. It's alrght, they'll sell, but what's the real give-away is that the m.o. is the same in both cases, from two unrelated parties. I wonder how many times people bite on this one. Antone heard of this one besides me? Paul- posted
18 years ago