Help me scam a scammer :)

[BoxdGM 10+ year member]

same thing happened to me, I was selling a tv on craigslist and I had gotten a few emails from someone and I know how fake emails look from scammers got plenty of those too. but the guy seemed legit and said he was local and was going to pick it up with cash so I gave him my adress and he didn't show which happens too. but then a few days later I got a check in the mail from istanbul turkey. the same day I got that check I got a email from him about the no show and he had a family emergency to where he had to leave the country and would be sending a check for the amont of the tv plus shipping costs to ship overseas and a little extra to make up for the no show, the check was for 2500 and had watermarks and security stuff all over. me being very hard up for cash at the time took it to my bank and they said everything was legit they even called a few numbers to verify and 30 mins later they let me withdraw 1000 of that. spent that and while waiting for the rest to clear before attempting to send the tv I got a letter saying the funds weren't gonna be availible for another 2 weeks then a day later I got one saying it was counterfeit. I went right to the bank with printed copies of all emails, contact numbers and the original envolope the check was mailed in with return adress and they no longer were trying to take the 1000 back out of my account. this was in like 04 and I haven't heard anything from the scammer/bank. I don't know about other banks but I wouldn't cash it incase they tried to hold you liable.

 

[Speedbump3]

How about just reporting it and moving on.

 

[Tehgregzor 10+ year member]

BORING, speedbump.

 

[BobbyDD 10+ year member]

If you try to scam him you're as big of a piece of shit as he is.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

If you try to scam him you're as big of a piece of shit as he is.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

I don't see anything wrong with getting back at a low life POS.

 

[BobbyDD 10+ year member]

I don't see anything wrong with getting back at a low life POS.

When you try to profit from it I do.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

just take the check and throw it in the middle of a city street and let some other greedy fool mess with it. That way you can just imagine what type of things happened without you being the one to get in trouble

Best answer....

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

or you can donate it to charity,

 

[shortyg83 10+ year member]

it prolly isn't the account of the person who sent it to you. If you steal anything from the person who it does belong too your a pos

 

[edzy 10+ year member]

bring it to the bank. Open a savings account. Put all of it in there. Now wait 7 years. If its fake or what not, after 7 years its clear. also interest will be nice.

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

bring it to the bank. Open a savings account. Put all of it in there. Now wait 7 years. If its fake or what not, after 7 years its clear. also interest will be nice.

My savings account has .1% interest. So after 7 years, enjoy the subway sandwich on the house.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

so you get a random check with no apparent scam going on , and now you want to actually scam the person by buying stuff with the account info. yeah thats pretty smart.

go to the bank with it, and see what they say.

 

[Tehgregzor 10+ year member]

Ok, i got an email today talking about the check. Its for payment for some fridge i was selling on craigslist like a month ago. The checking account is hooked up to a paypal account, so i asked if they would send me the money via paypal, then i would cash the check and send it to them. Haha. We'll see what goes on.