Warning to Wichita, KS area
#14
Not sure if I am telling this in the right place but Sun. while in church our neighbor had her car window broken and her purse, car registration and garage door opener stolen and yesterday when she came home there was a strange guy in her house no one was hurt he ran away but still under investigation but does sounds like there is getting to be quite a bit of stealing garage door openers and addesses so one cannot be careful enough
#16
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Florida
Posts: 5,510
It happened right here in Fla...I was selling a Featherweight and was contacted thru CL just like u described but I got curious as to why he really didn't ask question about the machine but preferred to send me a money order with no mention of how/where to send machine. Then I played it out some more with inquiries...few days later I get a text (I supidtly had ph # listed) that his assistant sent too much and could he trust me to send the differences back? I then contacted the postal service and they informed me it was indeed a scam called Nigerian Scam! That money order was for more than triple what I selling machine for! I edited my CL to read cash and carry only w/o my phone # and to be contacted only thru that listing. Talk about a close call !!
#17
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Arlington, TX
Posts: 243
Sounds like the same thing they were trying to pull on ebay last year. But, they wanted you to go to Walmart and buy some kind of debit card, forward it to an out of country address and they would mail the machine to you. So long money.
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