Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Possible scam?
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.
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Absolutely a scam. I've heard of this happening many times before. You can read about it on Google.
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Happen to me recently with a washer and dryer. I said I wasn't interested in the offer.
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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.
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Scam, indeed.
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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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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 Last edited by Chatbrat; 09-14-2017 at 04:48 PM. |
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The other term to be even more careful of is "voucher"---apparently an African term for money order. |
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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 |
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