Craigslist Scam: Cheque and Western Union For More Than Amount

My friend just recieved a check for $6,000.00 for a weeks rental of his condo in SC, after he posted it for $600. Of course it came with instructions on how to dispurse the overpayment. It was a check drawn off of Honda World in Oregon. The check was signed by Woodrow Wilson. Man I hope they can get these guys...like everyone's not struggling enough as it is...

Hello I really appreciate your response to my email.I want you to
consider it sold, pls do withdraw the advert from craigslist to avoid
disturbance from another buyer.I want you to know that i will be
paying via bank certified check .I will like you to provide me with
the following.information to facilitate the mailing of the check to
you .1.....Full name to write on the check
2.....Full Physical address to post the check
3.....City, State and Zip Code
4.....Home & Cell Phone to contact you*** Note that the payment will
be shiped to your address via UPS NEXT
DAY SERVICE and I will like you to know that you will not be
responsible for shipping i will have my mover come over as soon as you
have cashed the check** Thanks
i can trust you on this so we can move forward from here.
Regards

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STILL AVAILABLE FOR SALE?

I responded to the first email from anthony.davidson@gmail.com and received the above replu from kelvin.bright11@gmail. Searching on either of these emails and craigslist, returns many scammer pages. Beware folks. Any sort of deal requiring you to send money to get money will ALWAYS result in you losing out.

I too almost got scammed...I don't know why I even began falling for this, fortunately I caught everything before I lost any money...but feeling stupid that I almost lost it. Now that I am reading other people's stories I don't feel as dumb...I realize these people are truly people with no conscience. My item was for $150 and I got a check for $1500. It came overnight from Florida and the business on the return is a legitimate business. My persons name was Gerald Taylor.....gertay00@gmail.com.....PLEASE BEWARE...

I just had that offer for a truck on craigslist. When I saw that he wnt ed to give me too much money and that he wanted it tranfered back via Money Gram, I replied saying that the deal could be considered canceled. If he sends me the check should I send it back or destroy it?

I have a guy selling a car in England. The cars is Portuguese. Because I'm also Portuguese, I could be interested. The car is underpriced, for me.

Because he says he's currently working in Denmark and has to fly there to meet me, the only conditions he has is that I transfer (TO MYSELF),from my wife to me, for example, the ammount of the price, to liverpool, where the car is and we'll meet and scan it to show him I really did it and to scan my plane ticket. All this, he says, just not to make his flight in vain and make sure I have interest and will be there.

Because the mony it's in my name, just me can pick it up there, in Liverpool.

Could it be a genuine request or is there a chance of trying to know my details and forje an identification????

Can someone please help me???

Steve,
A couple of questions and comments for you.

1) I did receive a check today
2) You told me that you would send extra money so i can hold for your daughter when she arrives here for lodging ONLY
3) NO PLANE TICKET SHOULD COST $2850 OR EVEN CLOSE. YOU CAN FLY TWICE AROUND THE WORLD WITH THIS MONEY! YOUR TRAVEL AGENT SHOULD BE FIRED! WHERE IS YOUR DAUGHTER FLYING FROM? I THOUGHT YOU TOLD ME YOU LIVED IN TENNESSEE?? SHOULD ONLY BE $150 FLIGHT. SECONDLY, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE A PARTIAL PAYMENT FOR A FLIGHT! I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I FLY ALL THE TIME. FULL PAYMENT NEEDS TO BE MADE TO SCHEDULE A FLIGHT. YOU NEED TO FIND A NEW TRAVEL AGENT. MAYBE I CAN BE YOUR TRAVEL AGENT FOR YOU. I CAN FOR SURE FIND YOU A BETTER FLIGHT AND PRICE THAN $2850. LET ME KNOW IF I CAN HELP YOU WITH THIS?

You never told me that i would have to deduct and send $2850 to western Union! I never agreed to this. In addition, it is physically impossible for me to pull $2850 from my bank account in one day.

Here is what you need to do:
Please schedule the flight with your other money or credit cards which i am sure you have if you can send me a check for $4500. This way your daughter can get on the flight sooner. I can provide the extra $2850 to your daughter when i see her the first time and she can get this money to you.

Please get back to me ASAP so that i am sure you understand my response.

look forward to hearing from you soon,
Gino

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Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 18:43:57 +0100
Subject: PAYMENT TRACKING NUMBER... INFO ON WHAT TO DO !!!
From: stevemorgan1986@gmail.com
To: gpalazz2@hotmail.com

Hello Gino.
How are you doing today?I hope everything is moving on smooth with you.I am sending you this message because of the payment that you will be receiving TODAY and i must tell you that i am one of the most happiest person to know that the Payment/Money will finally be Delivered to You TODAY as said in my previous mail.
So now,what i will just want you to get known about this is that i will want you to make sure that the payment is been delivered to you TODAY because i dont want anything like you missing the package delivery ok....And incase you wont be available to receive the delivery of the package,i will want you to drop a note at your FRONT DOOR or get someone informed around your vicinity in regard of the delivery ok because i will want someone to sign for the Package when Delivered and will be more preferable you signing for the delivery okay.....
Ones again,i will want you to get the package tracked for yourself with the Tracking Number because i will want you to keep following up the Transit ok.......Here is the Tracking Number inwhich you will get tracked via .....www.ups.com/us or iship.com ......(1Z86R0Y72110004511 ).And immediately you receive this message,kindly get back to me with your response so that i can know that you indeed understood.

So i will want you to now how you will be deducting your required fee from the money and how you will be getting the $2850 send to my Travelling Agent Name And Address Via Western Union Money Transfer Immediately TODAY ,because that $2850 is the rest of the fee that is left for my Daughters Flight Ticket fee to be completed and as soon as you get the money send TODAY ,my Daughters Flight Ticket will be scheduled immediately for the Next Available flight down to the state and i will also email her Flight Information myself to you so that you could know her Arrival Time and Exact Date and Airport which she will be flying with On First thing Monday Morning unfailingly. So it depends on you to ACT very Fast with the sending of the required sum $2850, And get the rest of the ballance hold which is $200 for her till she arrive at the state and she can use it for her accomodation as well
So below is my Traveling agent name and address in which you will be getting the $2850 send to Via Western Union Money Transfer immediately okay......And please,do not waste anytime in sending of the money because if you can be able to get the money send TODAY her flight ticket will be scheduled for the Next Day and i will immediately forward her Flight information to you so that you could get it to yourself as well and then you can know when exactly she will be arriving at the state okay....
HERE IS MY TRAVELLING AGENT NAME AND ADDRESS WHERE YOU WILL BE GETTING THE $2850 WHICH IS REMAINING FOR MY FLIGHT TICKET FEE SEND VIA WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER
NAME : JAMIE CALOWAY
ADDRESS :TALLAHASSEE, FL 32304
I want the text question should be .....
Question :- Best Colour ?
Answer :- Blue
Please i will want you to email me back telling me that you have understood every bit of words i have told and instruct you with because i do not want anything like mistake in this transaction of the money to my Travelling Agent so that it wouldn't disturb my Daughters Flight down to the state and also get back to me if you have seen my Travelling Agent Name And Address inwhich you will be getting the $2850 for my flight ticket fee sent to ,so i will want you to get my Travelling Agent Information printed out along with you to the Western Union so that you would not make any mistake in getting of the money send....
NOTE:- Do me a favour by sending My Travelling Agent Information back to me if you seen it above here in my mail so that i can be sure that you indeed get my last email containing my Travelling Agent Information and how you will be ACTING fast on the instructions passed unto you TODAY ok....And as soon as you get the money send to my Travelling Agent,kindly get back to me with the necessary Western Union informations such as ......
Money Transfer control number....
Senders name....
Receivers name...
Amount send.....
Secrete Text Question .....
Answer.......
YOUR RESPONSE WILL BE AWAITED.
WARMEST REGARDS and i can't for you meeting my daughter

Steve.

THIS DUDE CRACKS ME UP. HE SENT ME A CHECK FOR $4500 TO COVER COSTS OF TUTORING HIS DAUGHTER IN MATH. I COULD TELL SOMETHING WAS VERY WRONG WHEN HE WAS GOING TO SEND ME EXTRA MONEY SO THAT I CAN HOLD FOR HIM UNTIL HIS DAUGHTER RELOCATED NEAR MY AREA. THE EXTRA MONEY WAS TO COVER HER LODGING COSTS AND IT TURNED INTO NEEDING THE MONEY WESTERN UNIONED TO COVER HIS DAUGHTERS FLIGHT. TO ME IT WAS JUST REALLY OBVIOUS THAT SOMETHING WAS NOT RIGHT. I WAS SMART ENOUGH TO GOOGLE AND SEE IF THERE WAS A SCAM LIKE I WAS SEEING AND I BUMPED INTO THIS SITE. THANKS ...YOU SAVED ME $3000 BIG ONES.

I WAS NOT DONE THOUGH...I NEEDED TO SCAM THE SCAM ARTIST AND HAVE SOME FUN WITH THIS. YOU CAN SEE WHAT I WROTE BACK TO HIM AT THE VERY TOP OF THIS NOTE. NEED TO HAVE SOME FUN WITH THE SCAMMER. lol :-)

Someone recently attempted to scam me on Craigslist but did not succeed. I received a check for thousands of more dollars than the price of the item was for. If that wasn't big enough a giveaway, the name of the company the check was from was Missouri Enterprise, except Enterprise was spelled "Enterpise." Ha. Hahaha.

My point is PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS. I hate this guy and I didn't even lose any money. Actually, I think he was the one who lost money because he paid for UPS overnight delivery.

Overall- never let the lure of a big check get to you!!

I also was contacted by Don Williams but instead it was donwilliams003@hotmail.com

This guy must be pretty stupid because the address he wanted me to have my item shipped to WASN'T EVEN THE SAME NAME!

His e-mail:

Sounds Good
Am okay with the price & condition. my mode of payment will be via certified check drawn on my Bank, don't worry about the shipment-fees, I will arrange for a pickup. the check we be delivered to you online www.iversacheck.com. Only a VersaCheck paper(business size) is required to receive & cash the check which you can easily get from any of this stores (staples, stationary stores, office depot, walmart) cost $10. you will cash the check and have your cash at hand before i arrange for it to be picked up. kindly provide me your full name & contact address which the check will be payable-to.

Ben Sutton
1018 sam road.
St martinville, LA. 70582
Fax (337) 680-4275