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WARNING, ILLEGAL ACTIVITY
This past week I received a response to one of my r.a.s.
classified ads, the respondent asked me to accept a check for 10 times the item value and offered 150% of the sale price of the item for me to launder the money through my account and wire it to a third party. Some quick research indicated this is a large problem with internet sales and also cautioned sellers that the cashier's checks tendered are often counterfeit or can be a means of passing funds illegally. Take care in these transactions! Still looking for honest buyers! Jeff Melin |
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not so much to pass funds illegally.. but to actually get you to cash their
"overage check".. and refund them the difference,.. and then when it is determined that their check is fake.. you are out the cash.. because it is in their pockets.. this runs along the line of the "Nigerian Scam", or the South Africa Bank scam.. and has been used locally with people buying cars out of the want ads.. only deal in cash... no checks.. no bank drafts.. BT "Jeff Melin" wrote in message ... This past week I received a response to one of my r.a.s. classified ads, the respondent asked me to accept a check for 10 times the item value and offered 150% of the sale price of the item for me to launder the money through my account and wire it to a third party. Some quick research indicated this is a large problem with internet sales and also cautioned sellers that the cashier's checks tendered are often counterfeit or can be a means of passing funds illegally. Take care in these transactions! Still looking for honest buyers! Jeff Melin |
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Hello
Some quick research indicated this is a large problem with internet sales and also cautioned sellers that the cashier's checks tendered are often counterfeit Interesting...do you have links to sites explaining / reporting this ? Regards, Ludovic |
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"Ludovic Launer" wrote in message ... Hello Some quick research indicated this is a large problem with internet sales and also cautioned sellers that the cashier's checks tendered are often counterfeit Interesting...do you have links to sites explaining / reporting this ? Regards, Ludovic Many samples. Just search around for Nigerian scam and its variants. A small used car dealer here in Greeley, Colorado showed me two washed checks a couple of weeks ago, one a casher's check. Very good and impossible to tell by the untrained eye. He had them checked before completely the transaction. He's involved with Autotrader, an online sales service. No one should accept a cashier's check for anything these days, as it often takes the banks a minimum of two weeks to clear the checks. The problem is that a legitimate check is cut and multiple copies are created to complete several transactions. The check will initially check good with your bank and the issuing bank and it isn't until the multiple bogus checks arrive at the issuing bank that the scam is revealed. By then, several people may be victimized. Direct wire transfer, escrow services, etc, are much preferred. Frank |
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This FBI/White Collar Crime website http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp=20
offers discussion and annual reports of various fraud and crime via the = internet. |
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Hi,
Thanks for the info...Just as I thought, such an attempt was made to a friend selling his glider ! It was exactly as described he http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/carsale.asp And of course, the so-called buyer, wouldn't answer anything concerning his identity, the place he was flying from, weather conditions in his area, type of glider he flew before, ... You really have to be cautious these days...having said that it's still good to know that it's not a scam within the "gliding community", but coming from outside. Cheers, Ludovic |
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