[Boatanchors] Fw: intrested in buying the radio

[J. Forster]

What would happen if you simply waited several weeks until the cashier's check
either cleared or bounced. You could open a new account with say a $50 balance
expressly for this purpose. You could use a throw-away email addy and mailing
address also.

-John

Gary Maples wrote:

> Greetings:   I work for a financial institution and I can verify
> for you that it is indeed a scam.  The scammer sends you a
> cashiers check for an amount much larger than the purchase price
> of an item.  He asks you to forward the difference to another
> party.  After you have wired the difference or sent a money
> order, the cashiers check he sent you comes back to your bank as
> being a counterfeit or completely bogus.  Your bank will expect
> you to make good on the entire amount of the counterfeit cashiers
> check.  By endorsing the counterfeit cashiers check for deposit
> in your account, you become personally liable for that bogus
> check.  The scammer has the difference between $2500 and the
> price of the radio.  You have an unplanned obligation to your
> bank.  If some one offers to buy a radio from you on this basis,
> don't do the deal.
>
>   They really do not want the radio and will not care if you ship
> it or not.  What they want is the funds that are "excess" in the
> cashiers check.  Had a depositor defrauded of $4,000 in a
> supposed sale of an electric mobility scooter in just this manner.
>
> 73,  Gary W9OAK
>
> p.s.:  The early scams of this type appear to have been
> originated by Nigerians