[Boatanchors] Fw: intrested in buying the radio

[Gary Maples]

You could wait several weeks until the cashiers check cleared, 
however it won't.  The scammer doesn't care because the cashiers 
check was   bogus to start with.  He probably has several hundred 
"lines in the water", so if you don't bite all he has wasted on 
you is a little email time.

The scammer will always build some sense of urgency into the 
story to encourage you to send the "excess" funds back as quickly 
as possible.  He will also state that the check was too large 
because of an error on someone's part.  He doesn't want to get 
another check in the correct amount becasue it would take much 
time to get a new check in U.S. funds or he would have to pay 
large refunding fees.  Therefore, having determined what a good 
person you are, he will send you the too large check and trust 
you to send back the "excess."  It plays upon simple human 
kindness and the desire to help someone.  After all, you have no 
exposure in this transaction as you are receiving a cashiers 
check!  (Danger, Will Robinson!)

Don't ever sell a radio on this basis (boatanchor content).

73,  Gary  W9OAK

J. Forster wrote:
> 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
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>>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.
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>>  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
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