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| Wizard of DelRay:
--- Quote from: FractalWalk on September 02, 2004, 04:32:07 pm ---and in a couple days you find out his cashier's check is bogus . . . he sends you a bogus cheque . . . If there's any question, can't you just wait the two weeks for the check to clear? Cashier's checks don't bounce. That's the point of using them. I don't see the angle. --- End quote --- It's not that it bounces. It was never a legitimate check to begin with. I agree with Stingray that it is definitely a scam (know better as a Nigerian Counterfeit Check Scam). |
| SirPeale:
--- Quote from: FractalWalk on September 02, 2004, 04:32:07 pm ---Cashier's checks don't bounce. That's the point of using them. I don't see the angle. --- End quote --- They're forged checks. This is a common scam. The MO is noted above. Luckily it's a well known scam, so people can earmark the wording. My advice? Go along with it, get the check, and verify the funds thru the routing number on the check. Verification fails? Report it to the police. |
| pointdablame:
His wording is awkward, and the use of "GAME" is admiteddly odd, but I'm not sure of a scam. It's not like he's asking you to ship first or C.O.D. I always give/want that same info from people I deal with. Just make a stipulation that you won't ship until the money has cleared (but as was stated, I don't think cashier's checks can bounce). I always make sure the money is there before I ship. If he has a problem with that, don't deal with him... he's scamming you. However, if he honestly wants the game, I don't see what problem he'd have with you waiting to see that you got paid. Just my .02 |
| paigeoliver:
AH, you see everyone thinks cashiers checks don't bounce, which is why this scam works. The cashiers check or money order will be a fake, and it won't ge caught as such for as much as a month, at which point you are left holding the bag because banks never lose. This is a scam. I have seen it a million times as well. On RGVAC during a fruitless discussion of making reproduction xy monitors one of the people in the discussion got this same exact email with only the location changed and the word game changed for REPRODUCTION XY MONITOR. Happens a lot with pinball machines too. |
| FractalWalk:
They're forged checks. Okay, I get it now. But you could verify the check yourself with a phone call as soon as you got it. |
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