The Chainlink

Craigslist Fraud

Alright so a few days ago my brother put a bike up for sale on craigslist. He got an offer from a guy that was on a "business trip" and had to pay with a money order. The guy offered him 50 bucks more than what he was selling it for. Which to me sounds very odd. My dumb brother agreed to it. Then he gets another email from the guy saying that his "assistant" sent him a check that was way more than the price of the bike, and that he wanted the difference sent back to him to pay off a shipping company for the bike's shipment. A few days later my brother got two checks for $985 each. He went on and deposited them to his account. When I found out about this whole transaction I told him not to send the guy any money. I'm pretty sure in a few days the bank will find out that they were fake money order checks and remove the money from his account. I thought this was a pretty interesting transaction. Has this ever happened to any of you? 

Views: 1144

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Samuel Diaz on July 26, 2012 at 2:02pm

He still has the emails. I'm pretty sure thats enough

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on July 26, 2012 at 2:11pm

I bet the attorney general's office has some kind of a group to investigate that stuff.  How about copies of the checks, or the checks themselves if they bounced?

Maybe try the AG's Consumer Protection people:  http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/consumers/index.html

Permalink Reply by bk (aka: Dr. Mambohead) on July 26, 2012 at 3:17pm
My usual optimistic, farm-raised, all-organic soymilk of human kindness just now went sour when I hear there are people on CL who would be disingenuous. I am devastated! Oy vey! Somebody... Please... Just hold me!

RSS

Groups

© 2008-2016   The Chainlink Community, L.L.C.   Powered by

Disclaimer  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service