mikedean441
6X HOF
Got this email today in response to my ad. Im immediately skeptical, especially since they offered to send a check for the items up front and take care of shipping cost. I told him I would have to wait until the check cleared before I released the clubs to ship and he said no worries. Smells fishy...thoughts
heres the few emails Ive gotten
Hello
I really appreciate your response to my email and i want you to
consider it sold, Pls do withdraw the advert from CL to avoid
disturbances,anyway i should have come down to come and look at it but
I don't have time to come over to take a look due to my Business
transactions that makes me busy but you don't need to bother yourself
with that and also the shipment I'll take care of that by engaging the
services of a mover, so I'll be sending a certified bank check and it
will be delivered to you via United Parcel Service (UPS), so I'll need
you to provide me with me with more pictures and the following
information to facilitate the mailing of the check ......
1.....Full name to write on the check
2.....Full Physical address to post the check
3.....City, State and Zip Code
4.... Home & Cell Phone to contact you
*** Note that you will get back to me today with your contact
information the payment will be shipped to your address via UPS NEXT
DAY SERVICE and I will like you to know that you will not be
responsible for shipping i will have my mover come over as soon as you
have cashed the check** Thanks
--So when I get this, I tell him I think this is a scam, and he says no, hes lives in NY and doesnt have time to look at the clubs in person. So I respond with my address and no other info, and heres his reply:
More about Pick up of the Item..
I will be mailing the check out to you via Ups and i will give you
extra $50 to hold the item for me till my check arrives within a
week..I have some Laptops and Electric Dryer that i also purchase at
your location.I will assign with a shipping agent who will come there
and pick up the item for me at your door step. hope the item is in a
great condition..
Thanks
Awaits your response
Heres pretty much where I stopped replying. Ive sold on cragslist before, very rarely get waht im asking for price wise, and now someone wants to pay an extra $50 for the clubs, and just so happens hes buying laptops and a dryer in this area at the same time.
Seems like a total scam, anyone else run into this before. Trying to figure out the way the scam works, im guessing the check is a bad check, or from a stolen account?
heres the few emails Ive gotten
Hello
I really appreciate your response to my email and i want you to
consider it sold, Pls do withdraw the advert from CL to avoid
disturbances,anyway i should have come down to come and look at it but
I don't have time to come over to take a look due to my Business
transactions that makes me busy but you don't need to bother yourself
with that and also the shipment I'll take care of that by engaging the
services of a mover, so I'll be sending a certified bank check and it
will be delivered to you via United Parcel Service (UPS), so I'll need
you to provide me with me with more pictures and the following
information to facilitate the mailing of the check ......
1.....Full name to write on the check
2.....Full Physical address to post the check
3.....City, State and Zip Code
4.... Home & Cell Phone to contact you
*** Note that you will get back to me today with your contact
information the payment will be shipped to your address via UPS NEXT
DAY SERVICE and I will like you to know that you will not be
responsible for shipping i will have my mover come over as soon as you
have cashed the check** Thanks
--So when I get this, I tell him I think this is a scam, and he says no, hes lives in NY and doesnt have time to look at the clubs in person. So I respond with my address and no other info, and heres his reply:
More about Pick up of the Item..
I will be mailing the check out to you via Ups and i will give you
extra $50 to hold the item for me till my check arrives within a
week..I have some Laptops and Electric Dryer that i also purchase at
your location.I will assign with a shipping agent who will come there
and pick up the item for me at your door step. hope the item is in a
great condition..
Thanks
Awaits your response
Heres pretty much where I stopped replying. Ive sold on cragslist before, very rarely get waht im asking for price wise, and now someone wants to pay an extra $50 for the clubs, and just so happens hes buying laptops and a dryer in this area at the same time.
Seems like a total scam, anyone else run into this before. Trying to figure out the way the scam works, im guessing the check is a bad check, or from a stolen account?