Garry,

This is one of the biggest scams out there mostly for online classified ads. My son has developed a online classified website and on every page he has on there a link about this scam. What is suppose to happen in this scam is you get a realistic "Money Order" for more then the selling & shipping price. The seller, being honest, sends the item out and also sends a refund for the overpayment. Then you bring the "Money Order" to the bank, after a few days the bank notifies you to let you know the money order is a fake. Your out the item, the extra cash and have to give the bank the face value of the "Money Order". Meanwhile the buyer has disappeared. It is almost, always to someone overseas and the deal has to be done quickly. My son had a lady fall for this scam, she lost a motorcycle and money. She was notified when she signed up about this common scam but she figured it was a legitimate deal.

One nice thing about the way AW2K hands emails, if I see an email with html tags all over it, I'm 99.9% sure it's spam/scam.

Bob

Edited by Alsorts on 09/09/06 08:19 PM (server time).