Our business get faxes like this all the time. They want to share some money, just send them bank info. We knew it was phony the first time, we use to save them just to see how many we would get, shredded them after about a dozen.

Just remember everyone, it is easier for some to scam people out of money than to earn it themselves.

Wow thanks for sharing this.

My brother-in-law is a police officer here in Fairhope Al. And he says they get anywhere from 9-12 scams from Craig list.

I had a very similar thing happen to me a couple of weeks ago. First time I placed an ad on Craigs List. The guys name was Daniel Walter. He did not barter on the price. Said he was out of the country and was buying the cabinet for his brother and he would have someone pick it up. Wanted to make payments and I should send him my Pay Pal info rght away so he could start paying, and to remove my ad now. I thought it was wierd! I told him I did not want payments and the reason I was selling the cabinet was go get some money, not receive payments. That was the last time I heard from him. The whole sob story was a little overboard for me to start with!!

Should I have reported it to the police?

We were trying to see a double futon and the same scam tried to be pulled on us. We also called the police.

yup i had somone try to pull this on me a bunch of times when i listed a violin on kijiji

Hmmmmmmm.... I was thinking of putting up our rummage sale for next week. I have fitted cloth diapers I need to sell and most people aren't familiar with them - I wanted to target a larger nearby city where there are people that would like them. But now I'm wondering if I want to put my address out there... What do you think?

We raise dogs to sell, and I get these calls every time I'm selling a litter. They are always calls supposedly through a relay service for handicapped people.

I had some guy try that scam, he said he wanted the item but was in Italy and said he would have his assistant send a registered check and to please mark it sold, already I'm thinking what would some business man in Italy want with my little 'ol cabinet I had listed for 100.00. So I said ok, knowing this dude was a big time fake. Then I received a note from him telling me his assistant had sent two checks and when I got one cash it and send the money to,;;;;. LOL, my exact words to him were " listen dude, you can take your scam and shove it!