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Just wondering

I've got three ads running at the moment and all three of them have attracted numerous seemingly unrelated inquiries from non members.This is new for me and I'm wondering if others are having the same experience.
One of these guys agreed to pay $500 for my tuner and said he would have his secretary send the check. A while later after the check had had enough time to arrive from the moon, I contacted him to say I hadn't received the check. He wrote back to say that his secretary had accidentally sent $5000 instead and would I send the other $4500 to his friend in the UK by Western Union wire transfer. Since this smelled really bad I dropped the matter. Does anyone else suspect this guy of scamming? It's been weeks now and no check has ever arrived.
macrojack
sogood51
2,157 posts
 
It is a scam that has caught a few people from what I've read, BEWARE!!!.

Dave
william7
53 posts
 
When you cash the check and then send them the remaining money the check bounces a month later and you have just sent them $4500 of your money when their check was no good. BEWARE DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT DOING THIS
slappy
903 posts
 
Sounds like a Scam.

I dunno who he is, but i would be cautios about anyone who "Accidentally" sends me a check for 5000 and and trusted me to send the other 4,500 to his buddy in the UK.

tell him to send a Money order for 500 or go to hell.
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timo
610 posts
 
IT IS A SCAM! I played one out all the way to receiving the check. One look at it told me it was not authentic. I wrote the guy an email and told him that I was FBI and that I was on his trail! Never heard from him again.
blueswan
211 posts
 
Last month I got a full price offer on day 1 of the ad. He wanted my account information for an international wire transfer. When I balked, he wanted me to send the unit to a friend in another state. He then said his wife had a friend in the same city near where I live. The whole thing was fishy from the beginning. Turns out, he had just become a member here 1 week earlier and had no feedback. The tone of his emails was suspect from the get-go. I then got yet another offer from yet another new member with no feedback for yet another international wire transfer in yet another country, explaining how safe this transaction is. I removed the item from sale and will put it up later this year. I have never had a bad deal here, but again... the tone of his email correspondence was not that of a fellow Audiogon member.
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