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Serious Craigslist question. What should I do?

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I put some Canadian annual collector stamp albums for sale on Craigslist early in the week last week. I was asking $150 for the lot. (That's about 1/3 the current retail price.)

Anyway, I got a response from a guy who said that he was very interested in the albums and asked me to hold them for him, that he would pay for the shipping and was sending out payment for overnight delivery. That was last Wednesday.

I didn't hear from him after he returned my reply to his original Email, even after I sent him 2 further confirmation Emails. I suspected he changed his mind. (I never received the payment.)

Today, I got this Email from him. Only an idiot could not see this as the scam that it is:

Neil,
Good morning and hope you're doing fine.

I want you to understand that the deal is on my secretary has posted the payment already which delivers to you today, but there was a slight error I guess we can handle with care, instead of the actual amount for the item, she made out the check for $1890 she claimed that was what i requested but she didn't get that straight.
So once you have the check please cash it and deduct the money for the item plus $20 that for your running around expenses. The excess fund should please be sent to my mover via western union, this fund will be used to facilitate pick-up.

Here is the information you send excess funds to via Western Union Money Transfer.

Name.... Warren Bxxxxxx.
City.......... Crescent City
States..... California
Zip Code....95XXX

You are to deduct the western union sending fees from the excess funds and get back to me with the following details later today....

#Actual Amount Sent After All Deductions...
#MTCN
#Sender's Name and Address.

When will be the best time for my mover to come around for pick-up.


Regards,
Wale Mxxxx.
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My question is this: How do I handle it? Do I rip up anything which arrives? Do I refuse delivery and/or send it back? Do I report it as a scam and to whom should I report it?

Any suggestions?

Edit: Oh, yeah. His first Email came through fine. His follow-up Email and this Email both ended up in my Yahoo! spam folders.
 
Tell him you'll rip up the check, and ask him to send a new one. If he balks, then you know what's what, and you can report him to Craigslist.
 
You tell him you'll tear up the check when it comes, and you're going to sell it to somebody else. End of story.

Lex
 
if the check arrives, tell him you ripped it. you wont use the money anyway if you receive it would you? if he's legit then he could cancel the check from his bank or he could track the check on his account if ever the check was used.

if nothing arrives, then nothing arrived. you still have your stamps with you.
 
It is obviously a scam. Would it be the Attorney General's office in your area? Perhaps a call to your city/town public attorney office would be the place to start.

I wouldn't destroy, send anything, reply or disregard unless they'd advise you to.
 
jaysizzles said:
I just did a google search on email scam reporting...
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Thanks for the info, guys, and thanks especially for the link.

I certainly won't be cashing the cheque when it arrives. I mean, one look at the guy's spelling and grammar is enough to send up red flags all over the place.

I'm going to see if I can get in touch with someone from the local stamp club and sell them that way instead of through Craigslist.
 
^ As you said, and as I was going to say.

It's obvious that the writer's first language IS NOT English, and the faulty grammar doesn't look like the type of syntax mistakes which would come from Spanish either.

There's no doubt that the check has been issued via a stolen bank account, or something like that.
 
Well, the cheque just came via UPS. I'm curious to see what's inside, but I have no intention of opening it, at least until I've reported it to someone.
 
Interesting. I was supposed to sent the money to Crescent City, California.

The sender's name was Jeff G. and he lives in Ozone Park, New York.

It's too bad that so many innocent people keep these idiots in business.
 
If there is a fraudulent check, that's a crime and should be reported to the police. Smart they didn't use snail mail...now they can't be charged with mail fraud.
 
I was just going to comment about using UPS instead of USPS/Canada Post - but still international bank fraud - definitely get the authorities involved.
 
It burns my ass up to see all the scamming out there today. People are driven by greed and couldn't care less about hurting anyone in the process. I view a lot of online ads and have replied to numerous ones over the years. It's been amazing to see how many of them are set up to defraud someone. I can spot them a mile away now but early on I was tempted.

Very glad you didn't get scammed. I just read yesterday where there's a new scam going around targeting people who've recently lost loved ones. To me, that's unimaginable how someone could be so soulless.
 
Too bad the cops and the banks wouldn't care enough to check the cheque for fingerprints and the envelope glue for DNA.
 
andyspete said:
I just read yesterday where there's a new scam going around targeting people who've recently lost loved ones. To me, that's unimaginable how someone could be so soulless.
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I can understand it completely. Bereavement or not, the scammers are ALREADY soulless, and don't care whether their activity causes people to commit suicide, or dash a daughter's dreams of going to Stanford for four years, or anything else.

Scammers aren't always individuals or small operations, either. It appears that a cartain VERY well-known major U. S. bank was a big scammer themselves (and they probably weren't alone), foreclosing on homes and ruining people's lives even in some cases where the people had never been late for payments, etc.

Furthermore, scammers know that people are more vulnerable during a tragedy such as loss of a loved one. People who may normally be "scam-proof" or close to it, might fall for something during tragic circumstances.
 
andyspete said:
It burns my ass up to see all the scamming out there today. People are driven by greed and couldn't care less about hurting anyone in the process. I view a lot of online ads and have replied to numerous ones over the years. It's been amazing to see how many of them are set up to defraud someone. I can spot them a mile away now but early on I was tempted.

Very glad you didn't get scammed. I just read yesterday where there's a new scam going around targeting people who've recently lost loved ones. To me, that's unimaginable how someone could be so soulless.
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It seems scam targeting people who've recently lost loved ones is pretty common. About a week before my Dad died I had sent one of his hearing aids to be repaired. When it arrived two weeks after he had passed, my mail carrier asked if I wanted the package or should she send it back. Shed said she had seen lots of packages sent to the families of the recently departed for things that they had never purchased and the family didn't know for sure so they would pay for these bogus packages. Bastards...is all I can think of to say.
 
Wouldn't it be a good idea to report this to craigslist so they can block him, and prevent him from doing it to someone else too?
 
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