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Audiogon sellers, please stop and read this thread

I had a couple listings last week and I received one e-mail from a potential buyer to instruct me to contact him via his private e-mail right away.

I was offered to be paid by Cashier Check rather than Paypal.
I accepted the term that the buyer would have his "agent" to pick up the units for sale. In term, I told the buyer I would only accept the Cashier Check from major banks.

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from the buyer instructing me to deposit the Cashier Check one I receive it BUT since the Cashier Check was made by his "financier" for more than the sale price, the buyer wanted me to cash out the difference and send a Moneygram to his "agent" so his" agent" can pick up the merchandise and the buyer thanked me for my " corporation".

I demand to know if the Cashier Check was made from major banks or not and how much is the difference between the sale price and the amount of the Cashier Check. I have not heard a response from him since then.

What's up? Was I born yesterday or is it a case of innocence
'till proven guilty?
andrewdoan
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swampwalker
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One of the older scams in the book. NEVER respond to anyone claiming overpayment and asking for $ back.
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theo
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I have an item for sale and received yet another inquiry from what I now call a "FRAUDIO-PILE" , these guys are
relentless. And again they meet the same MO as all the other that have been mentioned here in this thread.
Sellers beware!
tholt
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05-02-12: Operatenore

I believe, though, there was something of a misinferrence regarding member Tholt's post, or a misimplication: C'list allows one to flag a post/offering (of goods/services) that one deems to be fraudulent...(?) (that's a whole 'nother can of worms other than the obviously redundant/prostitutional/"other" categories. There is no way, in my most recent experience - as most people are contacted through their hidden emails - that one can alert C'list to warrantedly fraudulent contacts (someone please correct me if things have changed in the last several weeks...)

Operatenore, there is indeed a way via a link on the Craigslist generated emails to flag the responder as spam. Perhaps this is a recent addition. I used it a couple times on an item I had for sale within the past few weeks.
operatenore
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Tholt wrote:
Operatenore, there is indeed a way via a link on the Craigslist generated emails to flag the responder as spam. Perhaps this is a recent addition. I used it a couple times on an item I had for sale within the past few weeks.
I appreciate this clarification as requested, Tholt: I'll be looking towards - what will be for me - this additional feature in the coming weeks. Boy, C'list has sure gotten on top of this kind of thing... just hope it works efficiently.

Thank you.
pspoon
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I had an offer to buy from a guy with zero feedback, who just moved from Calif. to Canada. He would have his assistant mail me a Cashier Check from his Bank in New York. He told me to take my AD off Audiogon since he going to buy my item.
Asked me to deposit in my bank and use Western Union to send his shipper the the excess funds.

This is the information from the sender not the buyer that they used :

Ashley M. Murray
5 Randy Frost CT
Baltimore,MD 21220

The check is drawn from Wescom Credit Union in Pasadena, CA 91101.
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