Is this a scam ?!?! HELP!!!

[SWEET06CAMRY 10+ year member]

I'k I'm trying to sell me TV on craiglist and I received a few e-mails like this....

Hello,

Thanks very much for the mail,The reason I am sending you this email is to make final reconfirmation of this item and also to let you know that payment will be by certified Check.In view of this I need you to email me any information that may be required to send the payment , as I do not want to send the payment to a wrong location lest they gets into the wrong hands.

Regarding the shipping, I have a company that takes care of the pick up of my consignments for me and ship to my destination in the U.S.A.,you do not worry about shipping, the company will send down a representative to arrange the Sales documentation and the pick up from your end for onward transfer to my destination.

I also want to alert you on the fact that you will be receiving an overdraft payment ,

which will cover the money for the pickup (pickup and shipping to the final destination) as well as the money to be paid to the company that will take care of the pickup and the documentation with you. So please, as soon as you receive the payment , go and cash them immediately, deduct the money that accrues to you cost of this Item and take a compensation of $100 for stress making you go thru, and you will send the rest balance to the Head Office of the company that handles the shipment via the nearest Western Union agent in your area. Deduct the Western Union charges from the balance and send the remaining immediately .

The payment will be in your name to make it easier for you to receive payment, deduct your money and send the balance via Western Union as regards my earlier direction, please reconfirm your details one more time.

I will give you the details of the company that you will send the balance of the money to once I get a reply and agreement that you will send the money via Western Union money transfer immediately you cash the payment .

Once the money is received by the agent, the shipping agent will contact you immediately to arrange the documentation as well as the pick up immediately.

So in view of the above, here are some of the details I will need for final assurance of the payment to you.

(1) Full Name

(2) Mailing address, no p.o.box please

(3) your direct telephone number

Once you get back to me with all the above, the payment will be issued out immediately and it will be deliver to you by tuesday.Hope to hear from you immediately.

Does anyone know how this works..??????

Sounds kinda fishy to me because He wants to send me 3,000 dollars for me to keep only 500 and send the rest somewhere else...

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[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

Lol.

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

S C A M

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

DUUUUURRRRRRRR!

 

[SWEET06CAMRY 10+ year member]

How does this work though ?

I have received 3 e-mails from 3 different people askin me to do the same thing.

Also last week my brother in law was trying to sell some rims and he was asking for 450 bucks and some dude in france wanted to send him like 4,000 bucks for him to keep 450 and send the rest to some other person...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wow.gif.23d729408e9177caa2a0ed6a2ba6588e.gif

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

It works like this.... Retarded people actually believe this shit is real, and get ****ed.

 

[ace_800 5,000+ posts]

They want you to cash a fake check, which will take a few days to discover and send them the cash. Then when the bank discovers the fake check they want the money back from you.

 

[andytb 10+ year member]

well if you get the money just keep it all than you can scam the scammer

 

[JLJunkieMX107 10+ year member]

You cash the check, they pick it up, the check is fake and you get screwed. They tried to do this to me with a couple cars I sold on craigslist. I replied and said he cannot pick up until the check clears so he bailed on me. Another method is say you are selling your TV for $100, he will send a check for $400 and say oops I sent too much money, send me back $200 and you can keep an extra $200 for your troubles. Then a week later the check is found to be fake and you lost $200 and your TV.

 

[SWEET06CAMRY 10+ year member]

Yeah I'm going to tell him that I won't send him shit until the check clears. and see waht He says..

Also I asked him to use Paypal and He said He didn't have an account //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

Tell him you want a picture of him wearing a straw hat and a watermelon, holding the check and the deal is on. Get the picture, post it, we laugh, and he doesn't get shit.

 

[xX J Brutal Xx 10+ year member]

yeah i was selling my snowmobile once and i got something like this, i was selling the sled for $7,500 he told me he was going to send me a check for $10,000 and i was to give the rest to the shipping company when they got here. Well i get the check, open it, and it's for $45,000 dollars. what they do is give you a FAKE check for a larger amount. contact you tell you about there mistake, and ask you when you cash it to send them the difference back. By the time the bank gets around to not clearing the check, you send them the difference in real $. then 5 days later the check doesn't clear or your left with nutzing. They are pretty much hoping and praying your stupid enough you do the transaction the dumb way.