Am I being scammed??????

[suburban_joe]

I have some headers for salein a magazine here in California which also shows up online, I am asking $250 and this person emails me supposedly from another country saying they want them then disappears now another shows up with the same exact scenerio, will send a money order before he gets the product then have a "shipper" pick them up as soon as I get the $ order but the kicker here is this person says he will give me $350 to keep other buyers off ......anyone here think that sounds fishy? Has anyone heard of people pulling fake money order scams?

[suburban_joe]

Originally Posted by suburban_joe

I have some headers for salein a magazine here in California which also shows up online, I am asking $250 and this person emails me supposedly from another country saying they want them then disappears now another shows up with the same exact scenerio, will send a money order before he gets the product then have a "shipper" pick them up as soon as I get the $ order but the kicker here is this person says he will give me $350 to keep other buyers off ......anyone here think that sounds fishy? Has anyone heard of people pulling fake money order scams?

I checked out some info and its most likely a scam...better to be safe than sorry!

[MagicRat]

scam scam scam!!
This is an obvious scam, and it's getting pretty old. The jist is that the money order is fake and will bounce like a bad check. But by the time your bank tells you its bad you have already shipped the product.

[chuy22]

I had an offer to buy my tow hitch to my astro. Someone claiming they were from france and was going to send me $1100 in a money order. $100 for the hitch, $100 for my trouble of getting the thing cashed and $100 shipping and handling. The rest I was to send back to them. They keept emailing me but I never received anything. This is definately a scam. They are working through recycler.com. Thats how they got my info. Be careful every one.

['97ventureowner]

This sounds similar to a scam that is still perpetrated online. It usually entails the sale of a car where the seller receives an email from someone outside the US and they want to send some form of payment that is way more than the asking price of the vehicle. The seller is supposed to cash whatever the form of payment, keep a small amount for their troubles, and send back the remainder. What happens is by the time the money is sent back, the bank notifies the seller that the form of payment is invalid, and the seller is stuck with refunding the bank the full amount. There have been reports in our local papers and on tv of people in our area that have been scammed in this manner, and this scam seems to claim new victims everyday.