Craigslist users should be aware of the different types of techniques used by scammers to get some money out of you. There’s one style that scammers use nowadays that must alarm you because it looks too good to be true. What technique is this? Counterfeit checks.
What the scammer would do is they will look around for ads on Craigslist then they will contact the seller regarding the ad. For example, if you are selling your computer for let’s say, $600, they will tell you that they want to buy it from you and they’ll just send you a cashier’s check. When you receive the check, you see that it’s not worth $600 at all but something more like, let’s say, $1000. Then the scammer would then tell you that they overpaid and would wish for you to send him the extra $400 through wire transfer and by the time you do that, he would instantly receive his money while you wait days for the check to be cleared and you now know what’s going to happen. The check would turn out to be a counterfeit and the bank would be running after you for the money. The worst case scenario here is if you already gave him the goods, gave him the extra money he was asking then the check turned out to be a counterfeit.
This turns out to have gotten many victims but if you can already detect all the warning signs then you can save yourself with such losses.
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