The fake cashier's check scam has gotten more sophisticated.
Cathy Bussewitz at the pressdemocrat site reported on this one: "It usually starts when a seller posts a big-ticket item on Craigslist. Then comes a text message from an eager buyer. Next comes the cashier's check, which looks real enough. But the check is written out for more than the item's listed price, so the buyer asks the seller to wire the difference to a shipping company. Often, the deal seems too good to be true. And more often than not, if a situation seems too good to be true, it probably is.
This type of scam, involving online sales, fake cashier's checks, overpayments and requests to wire funds to far-away shipping companies, is playing out on susceptible victims in Sonoma County and beyond. Here is the article:
Cathy Bussewitz at the pressdemocrat site reported on this one: "It usually starts when a seller posts a big-ticket item on Craigslist. Then comes a text message from an eager buyer. Next comes the cashier's check, which looks real enough. But the check is written out for more than the item's listed price, so the buyer asks the seller to wire the difference to a shipping company. Often, the deal seems too good to be true. And more often than not, if a situation seems too good to be true, it probably is.
This type of scam, involving online sales, fake cashier's checks, overpayments and requests to wire funds to far-away shipping companies, is playing out on susceptible victims in Sonoma County and beyond. Here is the article:
