Hi all, watch out for those counterfeit cheques.a chap called Mark Greenfield sent me a bankers draft from Cyprus, and i asked the bank to check it was a genuine. 10 min later they told me it was the best counterfeit they had seen. It was from greenfeild 2916@yahoo.ca so watch out !!
A nasty variation on the cheque fraud is as follows:
You are contacted by someone who wants to buy something you are selling. You agree a price, they build up your confidence by communicating with you over a number of days or weeks. You think you know them. They suggest you wait until the cheque clears before sending out the goods. They pay for the postage.
Now here is the trick. They write a cheque to you for an amount much greater than the total sale value. You spot the mistake and email them. They say just bank it as they trust you and then persuade you to send back a cheque for the difference. I.e. their cheque has cleared, they want the goods and they made an “honest” mistake when writing out the cheque. They may add some excuse why they want you to bank it. The excuse will sound very plausible.
Thus you send the overpayment, either by electronic bank transfer or by cash or your own personal cheque back with the goods. And here is the catch you later (maybe some months later) discover that their cheque was fraudulent, you no longer have the goods, the bank has recovered the full amount from your bank account and to add insult to injury you have additionally paid the fraudsters a lot of money, which they have conveniently cashed and disappeared.
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Just had someone try the same with me. Name Peter Muller. My frame was advertised on this site. As you said bankers draft and thay would pay postage. And what makes it worse thay offer you more, to stop your advert , told me bike is as good as sold (lost more like). I am going to go along with it. And have already been in contact with the police, and thay say thay will trace the bougus pakage as interpol wants them as well.
). I am going to go along with it. And have already been in contact with the police, and thay say thay will trace the bougus pakage as interpol wants them as well.
So unless hes a totally thick illiterate robber, and doesnt read BM, evrerythings ok then.
