[TheForge] Interesting scam

Brian Edginton edge at edginton.net
Wed Oct 20 17:56:30 EDT 2004


PlumDon at aol.com wrote:
> A friend of mine, not on theforge, is trying to sell a nice drophammer for  
> $2000 and other equipment. He advertises on e-bay. He has got approximately the 
>  following response from several different sources over the last year. 
>  
> Anyone know what the details of the scheme are? How does it work. 

The cashier checks are bogus. The are hoping that the check gets cashed,
they get their WesternUnion cash before you get busted for passing bad 
cashier checks.




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