Re: Gotta be a scam!

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:50:01 -0500 "B.D. & Petei Zelazny" <UnltdLtd@domain.elided> wrote:

> Sellers beware!
> 
> My Alfa Romeo GTV6 is *not* being advertised for sell anywhere, but
> today I received
> the following e-mail which is surely a scam as I suspect the check would
> be counterfeit

> > to send a cashier check

bernie is absolutely right. there is a method for creating legitimate
seeming cashier's checks which take about a week to be returned NG, by
which time you've already shipped the car.

this scam has become very active over the past year or so.

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@domain.elided
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
              Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security
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