2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission 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

 

[bighammer]

Thanks, I tried to copy this to some of the other forums to alert all. When you have something for sale, sometimes any offer, even if there are odd things about it, get the best of you because you need to sell.

 

[MGordon]

This type of thing is a HUGE scam right now. The "certified cheque's" are forgeries.

 

[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.

 

[Oil Burner]

Yep, I had a buddy get burned by this scam a while back on a high end car he was selling. Same scam, same everything. BEWARE.

-Jason

 

[Ncostello]

That is fishy. Usually you get emails from folks offering checks for half the asking price? Dont take those either!

 

[LHartman]

Learned the hard way on a chashiers check ( I beleive. Or it was a Money order). Anyway, "they" stopped payment on the check and got away with the merchandise. After I deposited it, the bank came back and said that they received a stop payment on it. It was only $30. 00 thankfully. I didn't realize they could do that, but they can. Beware.



Loren

 

[Deezul1]

You can stop payment on a cashiers check according to Bank Of America.

 

[datablitz]

its best to hold the merchandise for at least a week after depositing a check, before releasing it, and or, ask for 2-3 forms of ID