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Counterfeit Cashier's Check



How the scam works . . .

You are selling an item over the Internet - it could be a used car or motorcycle, jewelry or even bred animals. You receive an email offer to purchase your item and the buyer says he'll send a bank cashier's check. The buyer is from Nigeria or "West Africa", but has a business associate in the United States who will send you the cashier's check. Then you are told that for some reason the check was already made out to you for an amount larger than your asking price. The buyer asks you to please deposit the check, wait for it to clear, and then send him the difference -- "but only after the cashier's check clears, of course."

You are skeptical - but, sure enough, the bank cashier's check arrives by Fed Ex, it looks real, your bank accepts the check, and the bank assures you the funds are in fact available. So you wait the time the bank recommends to verify that the check is clear and then you wire the difference to your buyer in Nigeria and prepare to ship your item.

A week later your bank calls: "We're very sorry, but the cashier's check was counterfeit" -- a superb copy, but worthless. Your account is frozen. You must pay the bank back the entire amount of the cashier's check. You may even be considered a fraud suspect yourself.

Your "buyer" disappears. About the only good news: sellers rarely get to the point of shipping their items abroad.FYI I ALMOST GOT HAD ON MY BIKE SO I FIGURED I SHOULD LOOK OUT FOR THE FAMILY

I don't sell anything online but thanks for the info

I get these things all the time, but I flip it on them and tell them I somehow spilled on the check and can they send me another one. I had one guy send me 3 fake checks. The more time and money it cost them to do these things the less it will happen.

Edited: 10/13/2006 7:32:35 AM by dnut24

holly fuck are you serious??!! check this out, this is the email i just got today from a guy that wants my bike!! also if this is coming from someone here or whatever, shouldnt this be made aware to the officials?

"Hello, Thanks for your immediate response. Asking price is okay. Presently I am off the shores of Angola where I work as a Drilling Engineer on the coastal explorations with Exxon Mobil Oilfields. So I will need to ask a colleague from my home town in Texas to send you a Cashier's Check. Please send me your address, full name and telephone number so that I can instruct my colleague to send you the Check. Since that is the only means of payment I can offer now due to my present location. Do not bother about the shipping to Angola I have a shipping agent who will come over to the USA to ship some of my items from my home in Texas so he would also come over to your house for pick up of the bike. Please reply ASAP. Regards,Jim P.S: Please send some pictures"

^^hahaha, check this out, the same...

Hello,

Thanks for your immediate response. Asking price is okay. Presently I am off the shores of Angola where I work as a Drilling Engineer on the coastal explorations with Exxon Mobil Oilfields. So I will need to ask a colleague from my home town in Texas to send you a Cashier's Check. Please send me your address, full name and telephone number so that I can instruct my colleague to send you the Check. Since that is the only means of payment I can offer now due to my present location. Do not bother about the shipping to Angola I have a shipping agent who will come over to the USA to ship some of my items from my home in Texas so he would also come over to your house for pick up of the car. Please reply ASAP.

Regards,
Jim



hahah, i let this fukhead have it.i went all out. later

later

THERE IS A FBI URL FOR IT BUT IT SAYS THAT NO ONE IS REALLY ARRESTED TO NOT TO HOLD YOUR BREATH FOR AN ARREST. BUT WE ALL WORK WAY TO HARD FOR OUR TRUCKS DO WANT ANY OF US TO BE HAD.

Originally posted by dnut24



Edited: 10/13/2006 7:32:35 AM by dnut24

holly fuck are you serious??!! check this out, this is the email i just got today from a guy that wants my bike!! also if this is coming from someone here or whatever, shouldnt this be made aware to the officials?

"Hello, Thanks for your immediate response. Asking price is okay. Presently I am off the shores of Angola where I work as a Drilling Engineer on the coastal explorations with Exxon Mobil Oilfields. So I will need to ask a colleague from my home town in Texas to send you a Cashier's Check. Please send me your address, full name and telephone number so that I can instruct my colleague to send you the Check. Since that is the only means of payment I can offer now due to my present location. Do not bother about the shipping to Angola I have a shipping agent who will come over to the USA to ship some of my items from my home in Texas so he would also come over to your house for pick up of the bike. Please reply ASAP. Regards,Jim P.S: Please send some pictures"

My advice is to go with it and see how many checks you can get from him. Make it hard for him.

HMMMMMMMMMMMM I JUST MIGHT DO THAT

well i wrote that cock smoker back and told him to send the money in my paypal account instead, havent heard back from him... lol

good lookin on the scam.i'd be a pissed off individual if this happened to me.thanks,again,for the heads up.