I too had a brush with a Craigslist scammer. I had just posted a listing for a Pioneer Spec-1 & Spec-4 combo. A day later a reply came that said something to the effect I should reply to a separate E-mail address, outside of Craigslist which tipped me off immediately, but I did just for curiosity. I was told the buyer had no problems with my price & he was definitely interested, then the next day he stated he unfortunately had to work & couldn’t pay & pick the items up himself (which were listed as pickup only) but he could send me a cashier’s check, swore it was good, I could even go cash it first & receive the money, along with a 50 additional bucks for doing so, he would arrange for a 3rd party to come pickup the items after I had my money. Now I’m clearly aware of these fraudulent cashier’s checks, your bank will gladly cash them for you & then in a wk. or 2 when they bounce, your bank will hold you responsible for repayment, I stated that the only way we would do business is that he would have to come to me with cash & make the exchange in person, I never heard another word.
Craigslist Fraud
Just thought I'd share my recent experience with attempting to sell some audio equipment on Craigslist. Attempted to sell a Audio Research Ref 3LE. I know now that doing so via Craigslist was probably stupid. Anyway, I had a guy from out of state reach out to me. Said that he wanted to buy it. Asked that he send a cashiers check. A couple days later the FedEx arrives with a check for $12K more than what I was asking... The alarm bells went off. Check was from a business in Chicago and the FedEx was from Florida. They did a very convincing job of making up the check. Reported it to the police - so I could feel better. They let me know that the scammers would probably have come back and asked that I send part of the money back to them.. as if. Rang the company that the check was reported to have come from (The Belt Railway Company of Chicago). They said that I was the 6th person in the last week that rang them. Wanted to put this out for y'all and hope that no one goes through this like I did. Very thankful that it only cost me time, frustration and some dents to my ego.