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#4104 |
"Mark"
Apr 2003
Between here and the
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Here is something that is curious. I posted my 2013 MacBook Pro on craigslist and someone not in my area willing to buy at $50 over what I asked. I haven't had that happen before, but since a number of people have shown interest, I accepted. They sent me a cashier's check, which I prefer to a personal check for this type of transaction. I just received the check and ran into a problem. The check is for far more than the I asked and far more than what the laptop is worth. I have not cashed the check nor do I intend to. It seems to me that this person might be trying to launder money or worse yet get my banking information if I try to refund the over payment.
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#4105 |
"Mike"
Aug 2002
24×499 Posts |
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It is very easy to write bad cashier's checks and money orders.
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#4106 | |
Feb 2017
Nowhere
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A helpful link to how scams using overpayment offers actually work, has already been posted. Since you've got the check, I'd suggest explaining your suspicions to the cops. They might be able to use the check as evidence and build a criminal case. |
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#4107 | |
"Mark"
Apr 2003
Between here and the
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#4108 |
"Mark"
Apr 2003
Between here and the
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I received a mystery package today. It was a bottle of beer from Craftshack, which I had never heard of before. I had assumed that this was from a co-working paying a debt, but I was wrong. I have no idea who sent it. I've sent an e-mail to Craftshack hoping that they will enlighten me. At least this doesn't appear to be a scam and I fully intend to enjoy the beer later.
[Edit]I found the person who sent it. That mystery is solved. Last fiddled with by rogue on 2020-11-17 at 18:40 |
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#4109 | |
Feb 2017
Nowhere
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If the check is good, it might be (as you suspect) a scheme to get your account info. Perhaps the bank and the cops could devise a sting operation to nail the perps. If the check is bogus, since the offer to buy came online, that would probably earn the "buyer" a charge of wire fraud. |
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#4110 |
Romulan Interpreter
Jun 2011
Thailand
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Don't listen to these guys, hehe, just do absolutely nothing. Don't go to the police or bank, don't send out any goods. If contacted later by the sender, tell him that you understand, everybody makes mistakes, and ask him politely to wait till the money are physically deposited in your account and everything is cleared.
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#4111 | |
Undefined
"The unspeakable one"
Jun 2006
My evil lair
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The funds show up in the account very quickly, BUT they still haven't been cleared. So now you think you have the funds, but actually you don't have them yet, and the bank can remove it later if the check is bogus. Plus some other problems with giving out the account number can actually allow others to withdraw from it. Banking is the US is weird, and not very friendly IMO. Last fiddled with by retina on 2020-11-18 at 22:49 |
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#4112 | |
P90 years forever!
Aug 2002
Yeehaw, FL
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From the banks point of view, what's the problem? |
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#4113 |
Romulan Interpreter
Jun 2011
Thailand
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Do you mean if we open an account with $1 in it and somebody sends us a million bogus money, we can take the million in cash and go to bora-bora, before the bank clears the whole story with the sender?
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#4114 | |
Feb 2017
Nowhere
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A practice called "floating a check" is -- or at least used to be -- quite common. You could write a check on an account with insufficient funds, provided the account was going to get a big enough deposit to cover the check before it cleared. Someone "living paycheck-to-paycheck" might do this at the end of the month, when their account was nearly tapped out, just before they got their next paycheck. It depended on the (then) fact that it took days for a check to go through the mill. When I was on jury duty, one of the other jurors worked at a bank. They were a teller -- a peon. They told the story of a woman living on a fixed income whose monthly (pension or Social Security) check didn't get automatically deposited as it should have. As a result, her account had insufficient funds to cover her subsequent checks. The checks didn't bounce, because her account had "overdraft protection." But that meant she got hit with a bunch of "overdraft protection fees." Naturally, she asked the bank to waive the fees, since they had been incurred because the bank had failed to record the deposit of funds due her in a timely manner. The "suits" refused to do the right thing. But the peons got together and made those fees go away. A previous time I had been summoned (but wound up not serving) the panel got a lunch break. I went out to buy something but, checking my wallet, found the only cash I had was my "emergency C-note." So I looked for somewhere to break it. There were plenty of banks around, so I went in to one and walked up to a teller. ME: Could you please you break this bill for me? TELLER: Do you have an account with us? ME: No. TELLER: Sorry, I can't help you. So, I walked into another bank -- it was a bank for businesses, not a personal bank -- and, of course, it was lunch hour, so the place was almost empty. I walked up to the teller. ME: Could you please you break this bill for me? TELLER: Of course. (takes hundred, give me 5 twenties) ME: You know what happened when I tried this in that bank? (I tell him.) TELLER: That's ridiculous! Apparently, nowadays most if not all banks will refuse to break bills for people who don't have accounts with them. |
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