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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
mitch2
4,330 posts
 
OK Fatparrot, no problem, but if I accidently by mistake send you a check for $45,000, would you please return the balance of $40,500 in cash???
cacophonix
18 posts
 
I came across a similar scam on ebay. I bid on a receiver which I lost at the last moment, and the next day I receive an email from a guy who wanted to sell his receiver for almost $100 less than what it would normally sell on ebay.
He then went on to say that I should use an escrow service in portugal. When I insisted that I would not send my money to any place outside this country, and something that did not have a toll free customer service #, I did not hear anything back from him.

So beware...
dave43
108 posts
 
Here's another one: I had another guy who wanted me to send my speakers Fed Ex COD to him, but when the speakers
got there, he called to say he was out of town (grandma's
funeral) and would I lower my COD amount since his "neighbor" didn't have the full amount. He said he'd
send me the balance. He was trying to pull the same scam on another member I found out, and we both told him to get ......well, you know the rest! Man, I hate thieves!
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