[s-cars] Is this the fishy car Scam?

[Greg Johnson]

It's actually a double scam that's based on a bogus cashier's check.  You receive what appears to be an offical bank check.  You deposit it in your account and wire transfer the "remainder" to some account and then ship the parts.  If all goes as the scammer hopes, he gets money from your checking account and the parts before the bank tells you that the cashiers check was bogus and reverses the credit that was placed on your account. The result is whatever money was in your account becomes what was wired to the scammer worse yet if the money in your account was less than the cashier's check the bank will want to know how you intend to make up the difference. In sum, don't get  involved in the first place, but if you do, don't wire any money or ship any parts until the bank confirms that the cashier's check is valid and has cleared.

Greg J
BIRA.ORG 

brian bilotti <vinnieb2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>SCAM!!!!!
>I was just selling some rims and I got 3 different
>offers, that were essentially the same. "I'll pay you
>$6000-$7000 US in a cashiers check, you take what was
>the agreed asking price then wire transfer the
>remainder to some account and that'll take care of the
>shipper too!! A little variation in each one, one had
>a guy that he owed money to and the wired money would
>go to him, more of the same though.....
>bb