Possible scam?

[Md girl]

Posted items for sale. Received email from someone wanting to purchase one of the items, said they wanted to pay with certified cashiers check. I said I perferred cash never heard from them again. Maybe nothing but just a gut feeling. I don't take checks based on all the scams that go on.

[jnieman]

Absolutely a scam. I've heard of this happening many times before. You can read about it on Google.

[vaborn@comcast.net]

Happen to me recently with a washer and dryer. I said I wasn't interested in the offer.

[John_W]

They will send you a fake cashiers check for way more than the purchase price. When you contact them, they will say can you send the extra amount via Western Union to my shipper and he will come and pick it up for me. They may have other explanations, but it all involves you sending the extra money to some third party, which is actually them and no one will come and pick up the item.

[Carl in Tampa]

Posted items for sale. Received email from someone wanting to purchase one of the items, said they wanted to pay with certified cashiers check. I said I perferred cash never heard from them again. Maybe nothing but just a gut feeling. I don't take checks based on all the scams that go on.

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.

[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

[golfing eagles]

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.

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.


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

The other term to be even more careful of is "voucher"---apparently an African term for money order.

[TOTV Team]

All -

1) Please do not put your email or contact in the body of your listings. Only put them in the fields we request when you list your item. This will force someone to register as a TOTV user and contact you though the site. If there is a scam we can block the user and take further actions.

2) If this was someone who contacted you as a TOTV user please send us the user name.

Regards,

TOTV Team