Re: scam

[Jim Altemose <jaltemoose@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Here's how a lot of these scams work.  They see your add and say
"Looks good, I'll take it."  Then they send you a cashier's check that's
well over the amount agreed on.  Then they follow it up immediately
with an email that says "Whoops, I sent the check to you that I meant
to send someone else and overpaid.  Please cash the check and then
wire me the difference."  The cashier's check looks real, and a bank
will cash the check.  All appear well, but the bank is actually
cashing the check against YOUR money, so it's temporarily credited to
your account and seems legit.  It takes a week for the check
to be verified.  Then, the bank contacts you and says it's no good.  But,
you've wired the money and it's gone.  The difference is their profit and your
loss.  Happens with Craigslist all the time.

- Jim
Jim Altemose, Long Island, NY
'63 Polara 500 (Max Wedge)
'63 Polara 500 (383)
'65 Belvedere I (Street Wedge)
'71 Bronco


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:14 AM, William Harrison <bbjt3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You can't catch them.
> There IP address is in Chad or Ghana or some other third world nation that is so corrupt that the major players in the scam game are usually high up in the leadership of the country.
> I found this out about 5 years ago from a site that tracked the IP addresses, so the US government can't do anything about the problem.
> The scam makes them sound stupid and uneducated but they are not.
> That's the beauty of the scam; it plays on our greed, so if it sounds too good to be true it is.
> Later
> Bill Harrison
> 65 Coronet 2 dr post
>
>
> --- On Wed, 6/30/10, Gary Wilson <Gwwilson67@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Gary Wilson <Gwwilson67@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: scam
>> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 1:00 AM
>> That is something I would like to
>> know also.  Wish we could get our hands on
>> these guys.  Rope would fit there necks very well I
>> think.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: "thepulpitmaster@xxxxxxx"
>> <thepulpitmaster@xxxxxxx>
>> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Tue, June 29, 2010 8:15:27 AM
>> Subject: Re: scam
>>
>>
>>
>> I received an email from a Craig's list ad.  It was for a
>> 2007  Mercedes
>> sport for $2700 in Phoenix.  When I went to the Phoenix
>> listings,  it was not
>> even listed.  How do you report things like this and
>> catch  these idiots?
>>
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