I sooo don't want to get scammed, need advice...

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Sandi

Sandi

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I am smelling a rat but I need all of your thoughts on this so that I could tell my husband to stop communication with this person. My husband put our elliptical for sale on craigslist. It's a commercial brand and we were asking $2300 for it. Immediately we get an email from charleswalk01 asking if its still for sale and that he is seriously interested and to get back to him asap. My husband responded that it was still for sale. Today, he receives this email from the same person and I am quoting it. -

I will like to proceed with the transaction asap and my mode of payment will be via bank check drawn on my bank (Bank Of America) as there are too many scams online with bogus paypal payment and money orders,the item will be picked up from you by my shipper so you don't have to worry about shipment of the item also the check will be sent with the fund to cover cost of item and also shipment by my shipping company due to company policy the amount i placed with my company can only be written on a single check so that is why i want you to receive the check and send the excess fund to my shippers that will arrange the pickup when the check clears at your bank,once your bank verify and cash the check you will deduct your fund and send the excess fund to the shipping company so they will proceed with the pickup because i also have other items to be picked up,i should have handled this myself but i am not available to do this now i am currently away for my company seminar that is why i want to do this to facilitate the transaction so proceed to delete the advert of this item if my mode of payment is accepted and get back to me asap with your full name,physical address and phone # to send the check to you.
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Have any of you dealt with something like this? Is this a scam? I would appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks,
Sandi
 
Sounds exactly like the 100 spam emails I get daily. Sheesh if there was just one person from Nigeria that needed to get their 18million dollars to the US I'd be rich! Haha. Sounds like a scam times 10. Anything you put for sale, you get spam scam emails just like that. If they use "legalees" words only old lawyers use- it is most likely a scam.
 
:mad: Thank you, I got that feeling in my stomach the second I read the part about him including the shipping in the check. Ugh!
 
yeah.. sounds like a scam to me too. Anything with the bank check or the like just doesn't sound legit.
 
We've literally only placed a few items for sale on CL but it was mostly for items under $50. I'm thinking we'll probably be getting a few of these types of emails. I knew I could count on all of you for advice. Thanks! :)
 
Most definitely a scam. I got an email exactly like that from someone who wanted to purchase the PS3 we had for sale.
 
I get these all the time wanting to buy my "dog or puppy" I have for sale. Um yeah, a chinchilla is not a chihauhau! I love that I don't ship because then I just say sorry, no shipping, and they leave me alone.
 
Scam.I get this same kind of silly crap in my E-mail all the time.
I have a house we rent and you should see the E-mails I got on that.
 
I hate scams like this, but I enjoy wasting their time. My dad listed his classic car for sale once, and a guy from Nigeria emailed about it. Over the course of 2 or 3 weeks, this Roadrunner turned into an old tractor, a nag of a horse, a Nissan write-off, a boat, back to a horse, and a few other things. The price of the item also fluctuated - the beaten down nag was a steal... only $56,000. The scammer never caught on, and I eventually stopped replying.
 
I rarely have seen these types of emails as it is my husband who has posted just a handful of items for sale online. I rarely do it as I have become a pack rat :(
 
Stacy [furrylovables] just had something like that, but she checked with the bank it was supposedly drawn from, and I believe they sent the F.B.I. or the F.D.I.C.!!!
Wouldn't want either after my six!
 
my fiance' was selling something on CL and some guy offered him a check for MORE than what we were asking, and went to far as to send it. i had him bring it to the bank and they said it was a invalid account! and the guy never contacted us again. definite scam.
 
Notice how they refer to what you are selling as "the item" that is because they send this email to 5000 people a day. My boss's husband fell for this scam, just in that he started speaking to the people on the phone and the people started harassing them, saying that they we going to be waiting outside their house etc. My sister also had someone fall for this that worked for her and his bank account ended up getting wiped out. stay away!!
 
total scam.. if someone says they are sending you a check and will be sending extra and you then have to send money back... what they are sending you is not real.. it's a way for them to rip people off... never ever do it.. turn them in if you can..

jean
 
jmdebb said:
total scam.. if someone says they are sending you a check and will be sending extra and you then have to send money back... what they are sending you is not real.. it's a way for them to rip people off... never ever do it.. turn them in if you can..

jean
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that was the first thing that made me think that this was probably a scam
 
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