hehe..oldies still lurk around..
anyways.. here is the message from another forum -

I was recently selling my integra online, and was contacted by a guy name of Jimmy Cole in UK. He offered me my asking price with very little bargain. He said he would pay me with a cashier's check which will be issued/sent by a business associate of his in the US. He told me that the business associate owes him money in the amount greater than the price of my car and then asked me if I could send him the balance when I get the cashier's check. Surely, the cashier's check arrives, but being a paranoid *** that I am, I decide to wait for couple of weeks before I send anything out. I almost sent him the money when, the day after I deposited the cashier's check, I saw that I have available balance of $9900+. But I decided to hold it anyways, because now that he's sent me the money he's not going anywhere if the check is real, and if the check is fake, then I just saved my *** from getting ripped off $6000+.
Surely, about 2 weeks later, BofA withdrew $9900 from my account stating that the deposited item was fraudulent.

If I sent him the money, I would've owed the bank the money that I withdrew.

So be aware of this scam.

Ongoing thread in RX-7 Forum(You could read my emails with him in this post):
http://www.rx7club.com/forum/s...30080

Jay Kim

 

Roadbeast has a cousin in Texas.

 

When is someone gonna scam the scammers.

 

sounds like a lucrative opportunity...evil even...i like it. haha

 

never.......unless they get busted

 

Let's see what happens huh?

Hello Jeff K.

OMG Vic is alive too.

 

Be careful, even though this is being investigated. I read some of these scam stories, and it sometimes takes 3-4 months until your bank realizes the check is fake.

 

pretend to open a bank, and offer them great interest rates on all that money of theirs

 

I ran into this scam as well when I posted my 2000 Suzuki GSX-R600 on-line and received a few emails from people posing as possible buyers from Africa. Same deal with the cashier's check B.S. and all. I did some searching on the web, and there are thousands of these cases going around, some unfortunately resulting in the seller losing their vehicle and being responsible for paying off the remainder of the load and this is the kicker...also being responsible for the shipping costs too. I came across an article which had a link to send an email, if you are going through this, to a devision of the secret service. Apparently this is a pretty big scam. All I can say is, watch out. I was glad I heard about it before going any further. The first red flag is when the potential buyer asks no detailed questions about the vehicle whatsoever.
Hope this helps.
-Tim

 

oldies, but goodies

 

Any update Jeff?

 

Where from in Texas? If it's close to me, I can throw a little ninja power at them



But in all seriousness, I'm glad you posted on here before you went through with the deal. Update?

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO dont leave us yet... hope this isnt a scam though for your sake, for our sake i hope this is and you dont lose money, just so the old members have people to talk to at meets ... lol

 

Hey Stillnmax, long time no see... something like 3 years. Still doing donuts in that automagic? Remember my Max? It was 3 months old at that Danbury mall meet. Now it's for sale.

 

how could we forget the Danbury Police Dept chasing him and greg

 

Everyone on this board was right. Thanks to all of you I still have my money and my car. Thanks guys! I guess I'll be making a nice donation to the "org" as a thanks to all.

As suspected, the check was no good and was verified yesterday by my bank.

 

WOOT!!!!! good thing everything turned out ok....

 

can't you send their email address to the FBI? I really don't know anything about computers but can't they do some sort of IP Trace using it? Or using your computer....? Then they can locate where he lives..

Thank god you posted this!

 

i bet your kinda glad you still have the maxima huh