Scam? I can't tell, let me know please.?

Question

I use a 'local' web selling site www bluebirdshopper com and someone emails me asking to buy. Grammer isn't great and asks me Condition of item, am I real owner(?), how much I'm asking (though it was on the ad), and my Name, Address, and Telephone number where she can send the check. She declined using Paypal, she uses certified checks only and asked for my contact info again. This could be found in the white pages so it's not like I'm giving my mothers maiden name or other personal info.

Here's the fishy part to me. She said she is sending a little over twice the ammount I am asking for the item, and that I send the remainder to the shipping company.

She says the check is going to be a Certified Cashiers Check so it should be from a bank that I could call and verify funds before depositing.

It's a computer she is buying, high end one that I built last month and am reselling. Why pay me 2,300 for a 1,000 computer and have me pay $1,300 to a shipper... What am I missing?

Answer 1

bigtime scam.

you will probably get 3 more emails that are all worded around the same.  Dont ship items on sites like those.

CASH only and Local pickup only.  Do it somewhere public and never use your house just to be safe use a place like starbucks.

Answer 2

This has got to be a scam. It sounds like you are going to out the price of the computer and she is going to get the computer plus the extra money because you can bet that the shipping company is a scam and really her.

DO NOT DO THIS!

Answer 3

Paragraph 2 is the red flag.

Definitely a scammer. They pull this c**p all the time on big ticket ebay items. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Answer 4

Scam.. you deposit her bad check, send money to "shipping company" they cash your good check....you lose your item, your money, plus bad check fees.....

Answer 5

That my friend is a scam. The fishy part you mention is exactly that. A good rule of thumb is...if it sounds fishy it probably is.

Answer 6

scam

Answer 7

scam, you cash the check, the money goes into your account, you send the shipping company, (which is a front) a check, and in the mean time their check bounces, they now have your money, and you have a hole in your bank account.

Answer 8

total scam!  no one is that generous.  Report her to the website so they can stop her from doing this again please

Answer 9

Hi Mike

That is a Scam and DO NOT GIVE ANY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

Once they deposit the check in your account, your bank will pay them and hold you responsible if the check bounces.

Trust me !!!!!! The check will bounce within minutes after they have the money.

I did a verification of that type of scam by giving my credit card. What they didnt knwo is that I  pre -arranged everything with the Visa Card to nab them..

Sure enough, as soon as I gave them the number, they hacked my card our of $8000 within an our but, I was protected because the credit complany declined everything.

So wat ch your back, you will be sorry and lose bigtime. The scam is that, she gets the computer but if you don't shipm the shipper is fixed with her and they are guaranteed of getting $1300 for free.