Hello, well I was selling a PS3 on an online classified ad here in Miami at miamiherald.com
I got a response from a guy with the following e-mail address: willy muddork <calebgallant4@yahoo.com>
Here are the first 2 e-mails he sent me:
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I am interested in immediate purchase of your item. are the itemin good working condition..? will you be accepting money order as a form of payment.? The item are they still in good condition and i want to know tyour final and asking price that you are selling before i proceed forward......?? please kindly email me some pictures of the item..........??\ Await your response.....?? Best regards Mr muddork
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Hello,
.i really appreciate it.?i am ready to pay you with a postal m oney order.i am not in living in miami.....?it is really nice to hear that the The Playstation 3 and Resistance are in good working condition..........?
Thanks so much for the quick response.The Money order that will be issued out to you will include the money for the sales of your item + the shipping cost and my commission like i said in my earlier mail . I would like to restate clearly that this item will be shipped to Spain and I have a shipping agent who would take good care of this.
You are to cash the Money order you will recieve and deduct the funds for the sales of your item and please have the excess funds sent to the shipping agent via Western Union Money Transfer at one of their outlets around you in order to schedule the pick up of the item.
All neccesary transfer papers will be dully signed by the shipper on behalf of my client when the shipping agents comes for the pick up of the item.
send me the receivers name and address including your mobile number so the shipper can contact you as soon as you get the payment.
Thank you so much for your understanding. hope to hear from you soon.
Regards,
Well I replied and asked that he pay $1,800 using Postal money orders since I believed them to be very, very safe.
He agreed to send the payment and additional money that i was to send to a shipper through western union once I cashed the money orders at my bank. We gave him my girlfriend's P.O. box to send to because we did not trust someone overseas with our home address. So, About 2 weeks later the money orders arrived, $950, $950, $950, $950. My girlfriend looked them over carefully and cashed them at the bank as she also did not think Postal money orders could be faked.
But, then I talked to people and they said it sounds fishy, so I looked online and found this site. The money orders had been in the bank about a week already.
We went to the bank 2 days ago to let them know we were suspicious about the money orders even though they had been in the bank over a week and still the money was available to us to use.(We did not use any though just incase).
Well, I did not send him the PS3 or the extra money by western union. However, just today after about 11 days in the bank, the money orders came back as fakes and our bank charged us $28 in fees for that.
What can we do to catch this guy? I have some information he gave me such as the contact info of where to send the extra money to "the shipper"
in Spain. Do you think we could catch him?