I had a dresser for sale on Craigslist and as so often occurs some guy wants to buy it and have his shipper pick it up- I emailed him and told him that Craigslist says he had the M-O of a crook.
He emails me back and say he is still interested and will pay the fullprice, so I changed the emailed header from re: dresser $55 to re: dresser $955 and emailed back was he ok with the price and how did he want to pay for it. His English has the syntax of someone who uses it as a 2nd language- he never saw or the mentioned the price change I did!
So, true to form he was going to send me a cashiers check - for $3000 and I was to keep out my money and then send a Western Union mailgram for the difference to the shipper in a city 300 miles away-
I gave him this name Damneds Chrysler and the address of my old Chrysler plant that has been demolished-all that is left is an abandoned guardhouse. A few days later he tells me the check is on it's way and he gave me the UPS tracking #- and I discovered he sent it the expensive way- overnight service-
I emailed him back the next day and told him I had the check- i just needed him to send me a copy of his drivers license before I could wire him the money- he balked, but finally came through--want to see what he looked like?