SCAM???

[Mookie]

You should totally do it.  

[TheRedOnesAreFaster]

Send him a bogus cashier's check for the difference....or maybe a model of your bike instead of the real deal.

[denydog]

Trying to see if this is a scam or not.

I'm not criticizing you, but I find it amazing that there are still people that have not heard about these, what I consider, very publicized scams.  But I guess that's why they are still so popular.  Only takes a few uninformed, or naive, or gullible people to make this a profitable operation.

[Cal24Master]

It's a well documented scam.  You get a bogus Cashiers Check, deposit it, give the additional funds to the guy.  Then 10 days later your bank calls to tell you the check is bad, you have lost your bike, and the money.  Write back and tell the guy you will ship the bike 20 days after the Cashiers check clears.  I bet you don't hear from him again.

[MisterEd]

I figured everyone knew about this scam by now.  The check will be no good - most likely drawn on a fradulent account, etc.  If you deposit it, it will "clear" (because the banking system allows the money in to your account before the check is known as being fradulent) and you'll then be on the hook for the whole amount of the bad check once it ACTUALLY makes it through the full clearinghouse process.

When you get the check, turn it over to the cops ASAP and correspond no further with this scamster.

[Playinthestreet]

Tell the guy you want a U.S. Postal Service money order.  No one's counterfeited those, yet!  There are more bogus "cashier's checks" in this world than legite ones.

[Y.B Slo]

THIS A SCAM!!!!!! I hope you didn't give the guy ANY personal info! The check is fake, your bank won't know for about a week. You will then have to pay the bank the FULL amount of the check! This is an old scam that has burned alot of people.RUN!!

[Real Bad Attitude]

I reported the scam attempt to AMA were my add was and were the scammer got the info. Here is there response.

Mark,

 

Thanks for your alert about the scam attempt in response to your ad on the AMA website. Over the weekend, that individual sent identical ads to numerous people advertising items on our site, and we have since blocked that address from sending responses to ads through our online form. Unfortunately, because it happened over the weekend, the fraudulent responses had already been sent before we blocked it. But at least that person won't be able to use that e-mail address again to respond to AMA ads. The bad part is that the scammers switch e-mail addresses frequently, so there is no way we can stop them all.

 

Thanks for being alert and responding appropriately to the situation.

[ducowti]

Trying to see if this is a scam or not.

Hello Seller,
   How are you doing today...Hope all is well with you...am hear by to
confirm if you still have the 2001 SUZUKI SV650S BIKE for sale..if yes get
back to me with the details, the final price, the conditionb including the
picture if available . Hope to read from you soonest.Thanks.

Absolutely a scam. I'll give you my bike if it's not. I don't need to get past the 1st sentence to see the other red herrings others have identified. The diction and lack of vernacular alone are dead giveaways characteristic of these idiots.

[Max Wedge]

I just have to wonder why some rich guy, who has a company to handle all the items he ships from the US would buy and go to the extra cost to ship a $3500 bike. With that kind of money, why not buy new?   SCAM!
 Tell him the bike is rare factory optioned, and Suzuki told you not to sell it to anyone, so you have to meet him, in person, to take the check from him. Bring a taser.

[Snowbird]

Sounds legit to me.  Go for it.  Is he paying in Nigerian dollars?

Yeah, definitely legit... but he should send his social security number with the check, the name of his bank and his mother's maiden name.  

[Hardware]

...How are you doing today...Hope all is well with you...am hear by to confirm if you still have the 2001 SUZUKI SV650S BIKE for sale..if yes get back to me with the details, the final price, the conditionb including the picture if available...

The way "2001 SUZUKI SV650S BIKE" is inserted into the text indicates these numpties are just cutting and pasting descriptions of for-sale items and shotgunning out replies.

The reply could just as easily have read:

...How are you doing today...Hope all is well with you...am hear by to confirm if you still have the 2005 FORD F-250 XLT LARIAT TRUCK for sale..if yes get back to me with the details, the final price, the conditionb including the picture if available..

The ultimate revenge is to scam the scammer though...

[Allan]

This kind of crap amongst all the other types of scams, internet or otherwise, makes me glad the only bike so far I had to sell, the buyer and I both belonged to the same bank. I rode the bike to the branch office. The teller transfered the funds over. We both got recepts showing the transfer. The teller was also a notary and was able to do the title transfer to.

In the future if I sell a bike its greenbacks or wire transfer.

[RBEmerson]

[...]In the future if I sell a bike its greenbacks or wire transfer.

Sigh... even greenbacks can be bogus.  I sold a VW GTI to a guy who paid cash (brown paper bag included!  ) for it.  The deal worked out but some of the bills were old "small head" bills that are easier to counterfeit.  

[HipGnosis]

Open a new account at a convenient bank.

Deposit the check in a interest bearing account.

Sure, it'll clear... but a week or 2 later... it will miraculously un-clear.

The bank will take the amount of the check back.

Take out your initial deposit and interest.  Close the account.

[Crankitup]

There is a group who bait the scammers. With a lot of success it seems.

[keystonejenks]

Isnt a certified cashier's check good as cash  

No, they're counterfit cashier's checks. The banks cannot even tell the difference and have issued funds upon them. Here is the part I don't get though. Once the bank realizes they've issued funds to a bad cashier's check, they hold YOU responsible for the money - even though they were fooled.

[DNA]

I have heard of guy who gets these all the time and asks them to send a $20 bill along with the check to cover his costs of processing the cashiers check at his bank.
Then he sends the scammer back $1 of the money.
This way, he is up $19, the scammer is down $20 plus fed ex, and he can show losses ($1) for the cops.
Then the bad guys relatives show up and things get ugly.
-DNA

[bikerfish1100]

i've gotten these jerks for 4 or 5 bogus checks. String them along, make them pay REAL delivery fees (usually DHL or FedEx, about $10.) to get the bogus check to me, then just yank their chains some more. If i were to believe the guy from 5 years ago (yeah, it's at least that old a scam!), there are a band of thieves & robbers who are now after me, looking to kill me, cuz I walked off with the guys "money". and no, i don't lie awake at night worrying about it.

[Kootenanny]

One thing no one's mentioned is the possibility that if you try to deposit one of these bogus cashier's cheques, you may be accused of mail fraud, because you've been involved with sending fraudulent documents through the mail.  Dunno if this is correct or not, but I've heard rumours...