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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa
My daughter sells Mary Kay beauty products on line. She gets these inquiries about accepting a "certified cashier's check." The only hitch is that the check is for more than the purchase, so the seller is asked to remit the excess right away, which is pocketed before the check bounces.
Or, the product is needed immediately --- before the check has time to go through the bank routine where it is found to be fake, and the scammer gets the product.
I would never ship product (or change) until the check had cleared and the payment was irrevocably mine.
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This is a common scam directed at Mary Kay. My late wife was a consultant for many years and we got these e mails all the time. Mary Kay usually sends out a warning when the scammers get active.
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Originally Posted by Chatbrat
My wife just got a similar e-mail the senders name Lanre Royce--might be a relative of a Nigerian prince who once told me I won a lottery.
The term " certified cashiers check" should be an automatic flag--this term is not common in the USA
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The other term to be even more careful of is "voucher"---apparently an African term for money order.