Yeah, I've sold many cars and advertise on an internet free site. I have at least 15 bad counterfeit cashier's check that I keep in a folder. If you are ever contacted with an e-mail to send funds to a "shipper" after receiving a check for mure than you're asking, call the bank. Here's how the scam works: I Advertise a car for $4000. Scammer e-mails and says he's from London, Africa, New Zealand, Nigeria, etc. And wants to buy car and owes a shipper here some money so he'll send me a cashier's check for $8000. I get a check, deposit it, then western union $4000 to a shipper that also e-mailed me. Bank calls a week, or 2 or amonth later saying the chack was bad and I now owe them whatever i've spent. The car never gets picked up, and I may be arrested for passing a bad check.
I never give them a good phone number and string them along for weeks saying that "my wife stole your check" ,
I never got it, Send me another one, what's the tracking number, etc. I'm easily amused..... I was told all these scammers are in a Nigerian Prison with access to computers and friends to withdraw the Western Union money. Use Google to search "NIGERIAN CAR SCAM"
Rob
