[Shotimes] Re: used car Scam again.

[Eric Keller]

This is a well known scam, and the best thing is to
immediately ignore the offer.  One of the grad
students had a similar thing happen, and it turned out
the scammers were local.  The police were only mildly
interested.  

The way the scam works is that they want to give you a
check for much more than the agreed upon price, and
you give them change.  In our grad student's case, he
was selling an oven for $350.  They sent him a money
order for $4000.  Someone was going to come around for
the oven and the change later.  After I had
straightened him out about the scam, he told the
scammer to forget it.  The scammer started to play to
his greed and said that he could keep an extra $500,
and then $1500 when he refused again.  

Of course in the case of the car, it might be worth
enough to them just to steal the car, dunno.

Eric

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