ok.. While I certainly wasn't expecting an earth shattering amount of interest in my 1.7 core motor, as advertised in the for sale area and offered for free, you can only imagine my suprise when someone offered me $2000 for it!

Not wanting to disappoint a possible buyer (or miss a possible sale) I bit, and asked how we might make this deal work!

Seems my buyer was located in S. Africa, but had debts owed to him by someone in the US. He would simply have a "Cashiers" check sent to me (by mail)for the amount "he was owed", and once cleared, I would send him the "balance"... not a word about the shipping of the motor.

So if: scot freeman joe (scot_freeman@myway.com)
contacts you about a similar deal, be for warned!

Maybe I should have said "yes", this way he could be wanted for Mail Fraud, a US FEDERAL offense, no?

Here's one for you, Scot

They get so much of this the cops won't even bother with it. It's in another country with no extradition, etc.

If you want to play you could say sure send it, then tell him you never got it...send another one, etc.
But he would see you were playing with his head and give up in short order.

Just better to tell him to and

I got a couple of these emails. I tell the guy to send the check. Then I give an address like

FBI headquarters
6969 Justice Ave
Quantico, VA

I never hear back

This one or variations of it has been around so long, they must find some suckers to bite. Don't understand why, but as P T Barnum said...

Pleeze send casheir's check to me at:

G. W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500






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I wonder if he'd cash it.