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Be careful!
...i just advertised a car for sale on Craigslist. I got an email from a guy who said he wanted to buy it (sight unseen and he asked no questions about it). He said he would send me a check for the full amount plus $3,000 for shipping overseas. Then he asked me to go ahead and send the $3,000 in cash to his pick-up/delivery man. Of course, I knew it was a scam...the check would bounce in about 10days after the bank clears it and then you're out $3,000. I think these offers are automatically generated (probably from Nigeria) because I received another a couple of weeks later that was identical.
...i've heard of this scam before. In fact, it happened to a woman selling lots of artwork on Ebay. A man told her he would buy them all and gave her the same scam. Unfortunately, she did what he asked and she lost a lot of money when the bank told her it was her responsibility for the bounced check and not theirs.
Shell
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