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I've got a few items on sale at audiogon. This is my first time selling over the internet so I'm a little green but good night does this really work? As W.C Fields said, "you can't cheat an honest man."
The warning signs were:
He had a very poor understanding of English -- not a big deal of course but hints at the international buyer/seller scams going on.
The phone number he gave me was no good
He didn't care about price or really anything to do with the item
He registered at audiogon just long enough to send me an email then cancelled his account
So far I'm thinking this is strange, but I need the money and I really don't want to be rude. What if he's for real. I couldn't think of the angle because he said he was sending a cashiers check. So I pressed on.
The subtle hint that really tipped me off about the scam was he sent me a check for $2,750 for a $500 item with instructions to send the rest back to him. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Does that really work? What’s worse is he had to send the check twice because he got the address wrong the first time. UPS figured out the mistake and both checks were delivered the same day. The checks had completely different names on them, completely different account numbers and were not even from the same bank. In fact, they were geographically separated by about 1000 miles. Here's the best part - the signatures were in block letters, not even hand written, and the signature was the name of the bank, not the account holder. I'm surprised these guys had the attention to detail to at least use a pen rather than a pencil. I'm thinking this criminal mastermind will soon die of starvation.
I guess the moral of the story is, never accept a check with the name of the bank in the signature block rather than the account holder.
Also, don't eat yellow snow.
Anyway, watch out for that one folks. You'll have to have the eye of an eagle to catch it.
Nate
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