Meso 38 #1 June 10, 2015 The following scam has been reported: Quote On 9-Jun-2015 someone submitted their contact information in response to your ad in the Dropzone.com Classifieds. Please reply to this email to contact the person directly. Username => mogan00 Name => mogan FromEmail => [email protected] City => Country => Comments => I will like to know if your advert posted on the internet if still available for sale?Email me your last price and the condition any available picture. Reply. Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SakuM 0 #2 June 10, 2015 I answered to his question and got a following email: QuoteThanks for the response to my mail .This is exactly what I need.I'd really like to pay you in cash at hands but right now I'm not withing your reach that I could easily come for the payment and pick - up . I would have love to come personally for viewing but am not around for now, Am a Net working Engineer for Engineering company. We move from one location to another.I agreed with the price that you gave for the Container($1,200)And believe that is in good condition base on your explanation.You will send the below information to me so that I can send out the Certified check to you as soon as possible,I will contact my Associate to sent the Certified check to you as soon as possible kindly bear with me because my Son (Roland)Needed the Container very much. I would make arrangements for the picked up by my shipping agent after you must have confirmed the payment cleared with your bank Okay.I would have love come over to your location to view the Container but i can not come at the moment due to the nature of my work as present. Your details for the payment... FULL NAME ON THE CHECK:-................................ FULL ADDRESS:-.............................. ZIP CODE:-........................................... TELEPHONE NUMBER...LAND AND CELL PHONE(S):-............................ So as soon as i receive this information from you, i will forward it to him and he will sent out the Certified check to you as soon possible. More important there will be some excess fund on the check that you will send to the shipping agent immediately you have the payment from him after you might have deducted your asking price.Okay....which cover the shipping fund. Am buying the Container in good faith and trust, the check will take only 2 -3 days to cleared to your account which will be sent to you soon . Regards to your family and have a lovely day. Reply Morgan How this kind of scam works? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lum_dum 0 #3 June 10, 2015 Not sure but I'm super curious. Guy/robot or whatever hit me up the other day and I just responded to see what happens... Wonder what would happen if you follow up with giving him/it that info... fake of course...Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SakuM 0 #4 June 10, 2015 Why not real details. What harm real ones can make? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lum_dum 0 #5 June 10, 2015 I'm not sure but there's gotta be someway he's going to benefit from it? Unless he's just giving free money away. Just tried to sell him my rig for about $1000 more than it's worth and got the same email back hahahaPerfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JGHagan 0 #6 June 10, 2015 I got these exact same emails from this same guy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zigrig 0 #7 June 11, 2015 Got one from the same person(s) as well. The way the scam works, is that many people are under the impression that "Cashier Checks" are safe instruments for banking transactions. In general that is true, but the loophole is that banks honor the check on deposit, yet still have to receive the funds from the issuing bank. If the check is fraudulent and your bank cannot recover the funds, guess who will end up paying if you already have used those funds? Part of the scam is that you are supposed to send/give some money to the "freight" company to cover the shipping costs. So you get a "cashiers check", deposit it with funds being available almost right away, take out a portion to pay for "freight", and in a couple of weeks your bank tells you that the check was fake. In reality you used your "own" money to cover the freight/shipping charges, which obviously will just end up in the scammers' pockets. There may be some situations where such transactions are OK, but you need quite a bit of recourse and time to wait for funds to clear. Additionally, one can ask the bank to check the routing number on the cashiers check. You always have to ask yourself how someone that wants to buy gear would put so much trust into the seller, when there are sellers that are capable of pulling off such a scam themselves. In communicating with a potential buyer/seller, there should also be a fair amount of skydiving related questions involved. Often one can use a loft on a DZ as an intermediary to check the equipment for fit and condition. Yep, stay on your toes... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
