fjbiker86

I was recently selling a pulling hitch in the classifieds on this web page. A guy emaild me and said he wanted to buy it. He claims he lives in Europe. He told me he would send a check and it was going to be a little bit over the amount ($240 was my asking price). He sent $2,500.75. I new something was up. He emailed me and told me to cash the check quickly and wire him the extra money. He wanted me to wire the money out of my account, so by the time his check bounces. He would have over $2,000 of my money and their would be no way to get it back. I went to the bank and had it checked out and it is fraud. Same thing happened to my friend on this forum. Same check, and guy. So, do not sell anything to a guy from Europe with very crappy written emails. He has various email names he uses as well. Just dont want any of you good guys to get taken advantage of.

973604x4

Me too! i got a check for $3500 with sloppy hand written address on the envelope from Europe. I kept it to show friends, its fraud no doubt about it.

This is my second time to experience fraud over the internet. very

Snoxracer

Thanks for the heads up, can you report this to the site manager?

t-boe

This is apparently happening alot. Make sure you send copies of the emails you recieve from these yahoo's to Jack and Lary.

53 willys

this has been a ongoing problem.......that is the oldest story in the book, do people actually fall for that one anymore????

BTW Lary and mods would like you to forward the PM on to him/them so he/they can ban this punk..........again

Totallyrad

Forward his information, anything you have with an explanation to Jack Thorpe. We're trying to keep those folks out of here and he needs the info.

973604x4

I already deleted the email, this was a 2 or 3 weeks ago....it was poorly written english. The buyer asked where he could mail a check for a product i had for sale....so i gave the address. I'll try to find it in deleted emails section or something later tonight.

all i received were emails, not PM's.

Geico266

We (Americans) have built the #1 ecomomy in the world by trusting each other with checks. Rather than carrying around tons of cash we use checks, debit cards, credit cards, etc. Today's theif tries to take advantage of that trust by printing bogus checks, certified checks, money orders, ect. Never accept a check you cannot verify. If you cannot verify the check by calling the bank then deposit it and wait at least 3 weeks until the check clears before you send the item. Never accept a check for more than the purchase.

fjbiker86

the guy never pm'd me, i dont even think he was a member

Lark

Heck, post all his details right here. Why keep it secret? Do like the local gas stations and restaurants that have hot checks, they post them right on the counter for the world to see.

fjbiker86

here are some of his email address
jbmp66@yahoo.com
"john kevin" <johnson_ld_1001@look.com>
johnson_ld_1001@look.com
heres the last email
Hi,
Thank you very much for your honest to me,yes you are not going to responsible
for the shipping cost you will deduct that from my money not your's.know i have
gave you were to shipp the item before here is it again:

ADDRESS: 56Beaumont Square
Stepney Green London
E1 4NL UNITED KINGDOM

But there is a little change sorry for the inconvinece you will not send the
money to the address that come with the chcek again i have decided to use
another parson you will help me to send the money to this name and address pls:

NAME ; PETER MICH
ADDRESS; 36 YORK ROAD LONDON SE17 ND UNITED KINGDOM

are you using UPS OR USPS to shipp the item? cos i will need the tracking # of
the packege after you have send the package and i will like to read the western
union info from you today such as:

Sender Name

Reciever Name

Amount Send After Western union Charge's

10 Ditgit Mtcn Control #

Hope to read from you today.God bless you.

Notice ...i dont wany any delay on this transaction .



thanks.

djbikeman

The first step in avoiding this is not posting your email address in your profile, signature etc. If a non-member doesn't have access to your email address, he can't contact you. You have to be a member to send PM's.

OldSmokey

I had a friend that have a couple friends that this happened to. He was selling his bick and the guy send a check that was twice what he was asking, The guy trying to buy the bike would call every night to see if he had sent the money to his broker. When he took the check in it turned out to be bad. So the next time he called my friend said that he would have gotten the money to him but the check turned out to be bad. The guy never said a thing. I think the guy was from Nigeria.

dodgezilla04

i think hoss replied back to his attempted scam with something like" thanks for the extra money you sent, that will go nicely to have someone paint my house" the guy freaked out.

6cylinders

You can't post anything for sale anywhere on the internet without hearing from these crooks. I recently sold some stuff on craigslist, each item I sold got a response from these kind of people. They always refer to your stuff as "item", like " I am interested in the item you have for sale"
I just mark their emails as spam and ignore them.