Beware of Scanner Sales on Strongsignals.net
 

I just responded to a couple of the scanners being
sold on strongsignals.net and the people came back
with I will send you a money order, you cash it
and send me the change type scams.

A word to the wise.

In article , says...
I just responded to a couple of the scanners being
sold on strongsignals.net and the people came back
with I will send you a money order, you cash it
and send me the change type scams.

A word to the wise.

What items did this happen on and what was the users name? Did you let
Rich know this or have you posted about this problem on SS board?

If you were responding as to buying a scanner, why would they be sending
you a money order? This seems backwards!

wrote:

I just responded to a couple of the scanners being
sold on strongsignals.net and the people came back
with I will send you a money order, you cash it
and send me the change type scams.

A word to the wise.

"Harry" wrote in message
...
If you were responding as to buying a scanner, why would they be sending
you a money order? This seems backwards!

It's an internet scam. The scammer sends you a MO, which you cash. You keep
a percentage and send the some, then it turns out the MO is fake. From what
the original poster is saying, there are people posting scanners for sale in
order to collect email addresses to send these scams to.

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:48:56 -0400, Mark etched the
phosphur particles on my screen with the following:


Soooo, how do you cash a fake MO ? As explained, you'd not have a problem
since you'd find out it's fake before any money changes hands.

There are some banks that now will not cash money orders or cashiers
checks drawn on other banks due to high incidence of counterfeits.

Soooo, how do you cash a fake MO ? As explained, you'd not have a problem
since you'd find out it's fake before any money changes hands.

You can't, that's the scam.

But scammer is relying on the fact that the bank will look at your account,
see that you have enough in your accounts to cover the bogus MO, and
give you the cash. Then when the bank realizes the MO is bad, it's YOUR
account that gets debited to cover the shortage...