[Shotimes] Re: used car Scam again.

[Noah South III]

I think I get the gist of the scam, but isn't a Money Order good as cash?
Seems like it would only work with a check or something that would bounce.

-Noah South III

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Keller" <unterhausen@yahoo.com>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 4:51 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] Re: used car Scam again.


> 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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