Does this sound like a scam?
Registered User
Joined: May 2004
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From: Vienna, VA
they send you money order. you ship item.
weeks later your bank tells you the money order is fake and pulls the $ from your account.
just because a bank accepts a money order does not make it genuine. It takes a couple weeks for them to truly clear.
weeks later your bank tells you the money order is fake and pulls the $ from your account.
just because a bank accepts a money order does not make it genuine. It takes a couple weeks for them to truly clear.
Joined: Mar 2002
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From: Doh!!
can't you wait for the check to clear before shipping the item? Or can't you cash the MO at the sender's bank.
When a customer pay me with a check that I suspect may bounce and the bank is local, I just go over and cash the check.
When a customer pay me with a check that I suspect may bounce and the bank is local, I just go over and cash the check.
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Joined: Jun 2002
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From: Gresham, OR
I love all those emails I get whenever I have something for sale. They always start out - "hello friend, I am interested in your item for sale", or more so "helo freind, i am intrest in the item for sell". They never say "I am interested in the xbox for sale" because they cant copy and past that to 100 people 
I usually give them a nice email back
I usually give them a nice email back
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Joined: Mar 2005
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you should get the money order and make sure you have cash in hand before you even think about shipping the item Thats theonly way to prove if it's a fake.
I sold a cell phone on ebay on time and with in 30min recieved an e-mail asking if I would take 125$ for it right then and send the auction. I agreed and waited for payment to be processed and posted in my account. I verified it though my bank not paypal. When all this was done I then shipped the item. No problems.
I sold a cell phone on ebay on time and with in 30min recieved an e-mail asking if I would take 125$ for it right then and send the auction. I agreed and waited for payment to be processed and posted in my account. I verified it though my bank not paypal. When all this was done I then shipped the item. No problems.
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Joined: Nov 2001
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From: Ventura, California, USA
Major scam. Fake money orders. The bank even accepts them at first and then comes back and says that they are fake. You could even be held criminally liable for depositing a fake a money order. Stay far away from that BS. THere is this great thread somewhere about how someone fought back and made the scammer spend some of his own money and take a picture of himself holding a sign that said, "I suck c#ck." IT was pretty funny.
