WARNING to TDR classifieds sellers

[dpuckett]

In case there are some of the membership that are a little more trusting than I, I received an email reply to a classified ad I am running for my pickup. The guy wanted to send me a "certified cheque"check for double the asking price, sight unseen, and have and agent deliver it, and send him with my vehicle and a personal check for the difference. Wanted my physical address, pictures, and phone numbers. It seemed real fishty to me, so I removed my address from hte ad, and forwarded the email to Steve St Laurent, and figured I'd post a warning here, as well. There is one already in the 1st Gen forum. I am posting here and in the OTHER forum to try to get as much exposure as possible to the membership.



Daniel

 

[tpruitt]

The same thing happened to me a while ago and i bought it for a while but when he said he would send the check he never did. What is the scam. They asked the same things like he wanted picture and then he wanted my address and then he wanted to send a certified check. I sent him my one of my addresses but not the one the truck was located at and sent him some picture of the truck that i have listed in my reader rigs here. His Email address is -- email address removed --. He also told me that he would have some one pick the truck up and that he would have a certified check ready upon delivery. He also said he was an agent who was buying it for a client who was on some sort of mission trip. I guess the mission was to get my truck. This all happened about 3 months ago and i still have my truck so i guess if thats what they were after they did not get it. I am almost positive that the Email address i wrote is what his was but i cant remember for sure.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

The scam is usually that the certified check they've sent you is bogus. You've sent them money and they've cashed your check. Your bank takes a couple weeks to get their check cashed from the foreign bank and when they find out it's a bad check charge it back to you. So now you are out the money. This is a VERY common scam.