[s-cars] Scammers...

[John Cody Forbes]

Vincent Frégeac wrote:
> In case someone still doesn't know, the end result of what the guy
> offer is:
> - You cash in the cashier check.
> - Immediatly or 5 days later the bank release the money
> - You pay the "shipper"
> - A month later, the bank call to tell you the cashier check was a
> fake.
> - In the meantime, the shipper have split 50/50 with the guy in
> Sweden and if he's lucky, he's also driving your car ;-)
>

Had a stupid friend/co-worker fall for this scam (after my advice to walk 
away) a few years ago. She spent 2 days in jail before a few of us got 
together to post bail. She went to cash the money order at one of those 
check cashing places, they told her it would be a little bit to "clear" it 
so she decided to walk across the street for ice cream. When she walked out 
of the ice cream shop they pulled the whole 9 yards "We have you surrounded, 
hands on your head" setup. They charged her with whatever charges go along 
with falsifying such documents and fingered her as part of the scam, not a 
victim.

She spent not only the two days in jail, but spent a good while in court 
over it. In the end when we produced the e-mails that I had been saving and 
printing all along behind her back she was cleared.

Moral of the story: Consequences are worse then Vincent thinks.
Moral #2: Don't sell stuff, you are bound to get screwed one way or another. 
Some moron will probably wreck your ex-car and sue you for his injuries 
because you provided him the method to get injured.

-Cody Forbes
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