If anyone is selling Big $$$ Items on eBay be careful..

[catfishhunter 2]

I don't know if these idiots would try to target anyone selling sky diving gear but thought I would share what some idiot thought I would fall for...

First email.

Dear Seller,

I am an international sales man and I am willing and interested in the purchase of your Item display on this website for shipment to Africa on behalf of my client.

Please get back to us with an offer.May I informed you that I will be paying with an American cahsiers check drawn from an American Bank and also willing to take care of the shipping myself.

Regards

Second email

Hello John,

Thanks for the e-mail and response. It is great to hear from you as regards the Purchase of this Item.

Due to the Urgency of this purchase , a Cashier's Check for the sum of $3,700.00 will be sent to you on our behalf(This is a payment for an item we had purchased earlier on but was sold before payment got to the seller so he is sending a refund).As soon as you cash the check, Please deduct the cost of the Item and we will inform you of where so send the exccess to. If this is okay, Please confirm the below,Payment Information of yours:
******EDITED*****
As soon as your information gets to our corresponding Seller, we can confirm to you when you will get the payment.

Please e-mail as soon as you get this mail.

Best Regards,

My Reply!

No that is not ok. We will in no way cash a check and send the excess to you. We will accept a cashiers check for the purchase amount. Check with the bank it is drawn on, Exchange it for certified funds from that bank then ship your items. I am sure you are VERY aware that what you are asking is a scam that has been perpetrated many times. I might have been born at night but it wasn’t last night.
Please notify me when you are ready to send the cashiers check for the exact amount of the purchase.

Thank you,

In case anyone wants the Idiots email it is
samtechinc@email.com

I wonder how many people have fallen for that scam...

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[crzjp20 0]

i had a simular situation with a WhiteNeco or something like that

tried to get me for about 1000 bucks.

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[DShiznit 0]

I got the same thing when I was selling an altimeter a few months ago.

[BoostedXT 0]

Its a scam...they have been around for a while. Different people trying the same old shit. My sister handles frauds like this when she worked for the DA's office and now the Secret Service. You basically send them the item and the cash....they then run the casheirs check and find out low funds...you are the one who has to make up the difference....so they get your item + cash...and you actually spend out of pocket money.

Run far away.
Joe

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....they then run the casheirs check and find out low funds...

Please re-write this sentence. It doesn't make sense...

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~~~Michael

[Douva 0]

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I don't know if these idiots would try to target anyone selling sky diving gear but thought I would share what some idiot thought I would fall for...

First email.

Dear Seller,

I am an international sales man and I am willing and interested in the purchase of your Item display on this website for shipment to Africa on behalf of my client.

Please get back to us with an offer.May I informed you that I will be paying with an American cahsiers check drawn from an American Bank and also willing to take care of the shipping myself.

Regards

Second email

Hello John,

Thanks for the e-mail and response. It is great to hear from you as regards the Purchase of this Item.

Due to the Urgency of this purchase , a Cashier's Check for the sum of $3,700.00 will be sent to you on our behalf(This is a payment for an item we had purchased earlier on but was sold before payment got to the seller so he is sending a refund).As soon as you cash the check, Please deduct the cost of the Item and we will inform you of where so send the exccess to. If this is okay, Please confirm the below,Payment Information of yours:
******EDITED*****
As soon as your information gets to our corresponding Seller, we can confirm to you when you will get the payment.

Please e-mail as soon as you get this mail.

Best Regards,

My Reply!

No that is not ok. We will in no way cash a check and send the excess to you. We will accept a cashiers check for the purchase amount. Check with the bank it is drawn on, Exchange it for certified funds from that bank then ship your items. I am sure you are VERY aware that what you are asking is a scam that has been perpetrated many times. I might have been born at night but it wasn’t last night.
Please notify me when you are ready to send the cashiers check for the exact amount of the purchase.

Thank you,

In case anyone wants the Idiots email it is
samtechinc@email.com

I wonder how many people have fallen for that scam...

It's not as much of an issue now that most eBay transactions are paid for via PayPal or similar online payment services, but in the early days of eBay, money orders and cashier's checks were the most common method of payment. Most people would ship an item immediately if they received a money order or cashier's check, but they would hold the item until a personal check cleared. What most people didn't realize is that money orders and cashier's checks can be declined by your bank if the purchaser has declared them "lost or stolen" and received a refund. That's how I got hosed on a camera I sold. After that, I always waited for money orders and cashier's checks to clear, just like personal checks. Once I explained why, most customers were pretty understanding.

--Douva

I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names.