Interstate scams
Mar 31, 2017 19:27:17 #
If you are selling any items on Craigslist or any other lists WATCH IT. There is a scam going on in which they will send you more money than what you are asking for the item either by personal business check or money order. The personal checks are bad and so are the money orders. They will ask you to send the other portion of the money to another person from another state and they will have somebody pick up the item you sold them. Just WATCH IT IT IS A SCAM!!!!
Mar 31, 2017 19:31:10 #
bnsf wrote:
If you are selling any items on Craigslist or any other lists WATCH IT. There is a scam going on in which they will send you more money than what you are asking for the item either by personal business check or money order. The personal checks are bad and so are the money orders. They will ask you to send the other portion of the money to another person from another state and they will have somebody pick up the item you sold them. Just WATCH IT IT IS A SCAM!!!!
That scam is as old as Craigslist itself.
Mar 31, 2017 19:36:38 #
Here's the simplest solution, when the bank clears the check THEN release the item and not until then. It's just that simple.
Mar 31, 2017 19:43:32 #
Mar 31, 2017 19:54:11 #
makiilynn wrote:
Then don't release the item and move on to someone else that won't waste your time. If it seems to smell it probably does.the check won't clear
Mar 31, 2017 20:13:30 #
This happened to me two years ago. I thought something was wrong, and I gave the check to a friend who was a federal prosecuting attorney. He verified that the check was bogus. I was inundated with e-mails from the bozo until I told him I had turned his checks over to the feds. I never heard from him again.
Mar 31, 2017 20:17:40 #
Mar 31, 2017 21:17:21 #
Careful. The bank may seem to have cleared the check by saying the funds are available, but if the bank check is forged, it may take a while to actually be rejected. I would wait a ling time, perhaps 1 week or two. You could also call the issuing bank and inquire on the validity of the check. But still wait, just to be sure.
Mar 31, 2017 21:19:09 #
Mar 31, 2017 21:32:45 #
Do your Craigslist deals locally, in cash, and in a public spot (not your house), like a police station.
Mar 31, 2017 22:49:06 #
Joexx wrote:
Careful. The bank may seem to have cleared the check by saying the funds are available, but if the bank check is forged, it may take a while to actually be rejected. I would wait a ling time, perhaps 1 week or two. You could also call the issuing bank and inquire on the validity of the check. But still wait, just to be sure.
Bank checks take twenty minutes, whereas a money order which is considered a high risk item took 3 days before they guaranteed the funds. I send a package after the bank confirmation and guarantee by them. I just went through this in the lasts couple of weeks with 2 transactions. Safest is cash and certified bank checks.
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