Mark Poss

Well-known Member
Has anyone had any dealings with Donald White from
Milwaukee Wisconsin? He sent me an email Saturday with a
phone number that didn?t work regarding a tractor I had listed
in the classified ads. Sent me another today saying he would
take the unit, didn?t even call it a tractor. Wants my name and
address and he will send me a certified check. Sight unseen.
Sounds fishy to me. Please let me know if anyone has heard
of him. Thanks, Mark
 
Yup, scam. They will send a check for more than your asking price, keep the difference, send an agent to pick up the itme and leave. You cashed the check and are happy until the bank says it bounced. Your out the money and your item. Old scam.
 
It is a SCAM. I get those all the time for generators.
He will send you a check. For more than you are asking. To help cover shipping. Send any extra money back to him. After the check bounces. You have to cover everything.
He does not use the correct words to talk to you.
After it is all over. You are left paying for the scam.

I had one guy that wanted me to ship. A 450 KW Onan to him. By UPS. And if was what he wanted. He would send me a check.
 
John you would think that they. Could come up with some new ideas. For a scam but I guess if the old ones still work. Why change
 
(quoted from post at 15:48:09 02/11/20)I had [color=blue:d0cab8e1ab]one guy that wanted me to ship. A 450 KW Onan to him. [b:d0cab8e1ab]By UPS.[/b:d0cab8e1ab][/color:d0cab8e1ab] And if was what he wanted. He would send me a check.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! I'd love to see the look on the UPS driver that would've gotten that load! *lol*
 
It goes something like this. The check is for way more then you ask for the tractor. He asks that you hand the rest to the hauler to deliver to him. After tractor and hauler and your "the rest" are gone the bank says give me my money it is a bad check. Your his bogus check, the tractor and the phone number still doesn't work.
 
He wanted to "buy" my free cub cadet, said he would send certified check, seemed nice enough and polite.

I declined, as it was spoken for.
 
(quoted from post at 19:33:38 02/11/20) Yup, scam. They will send a check for more than your asking price, keep the difference, send an agent to pick up the itme and leave. You cashed the check and are happy until the bank says it bounced. Your out the money and your item. Old scam.

Except they do not pickup the item at all.
They are only after the "extra" money they can get you to refund them before the bank tells you the check is fake.
 
Yea I don't think they have a delivery truck. That can handle 11.200 lbs. Plus I don't think the Cummins VT-1710
will fit in the box van.
 
I have some 55 gal. drums advertised on Craigslist. Last night i got a text that he would take them but I needed to send him back the 6 digit code the he sent so he could verify if the ad was for real or not. I told him it is real and if he wants them to bring cash. He replied "I will take them and bring cash but send the code back to verify if it is a real ad". Ended the correspondence with him at that point. What is the purpose of his code?
 

When I get a message saying they will send a check and have someone pickup the item I am selling, my reply to them is "cash when buyer picks up". Usually I never hear from them again.
 

CLASSIC scam.

Delete and move on.

Or tell him if he shows up in person with REAL cash (as verified by your bank) he can have it.
 
You left out the part about the check cashing OK but he never shows up to take it. laving you to store with care someone else's "junk".
Tell them they have 10days from the check clearing to remove the item or all funds and item will resort to you by default.
 
Yes!! We sold my brother's truck, several years ago, and many of the $100's were real. Many were not. We didn't bother to check them, I had known the couple, believe it or not, and I knew where they lived. Pounded on their door and got real money. They acted real surprised. Moral of t he story; the City Police were totally NOT interested. Wouldn't even investigate.
 
I had a similar instance involving Craigslist years ago. Listed a Husky lawn tractor and guy emailed, said he would mail the check, send him back $30 or so, and his crew would pick it up. My wife worked at a bank and had heard of similar scams, even after he mailed what looked like a very real check, I never cashed it and sold the mower to a reputable person. Seller beware for sure.
 
I just posted a disc and got a bunch of far away area code text wanting to send me a code to verify that I am who I am, ignored them. Years ago I had a guy want to buy a CA I listed, said he wanted it, never asked a question about it, I got a certified check for $4,800 I was asking $1,200, emailed me and told me to cash and send the rest to this address for shipping, I had my friend at the bank run the check, took 24 hours, all the time I got 20 emails from him asking why I had not wired the money. Turned out the certified check was fake, called the treasury department, they just brushed me off.
 
That code deal is a scam, they are using your phone number to set up a google voicemail deal to continue scamming others. They need your phone # and that code to set it up.

Dont send out codes.

Paul
 
The check will clear. Then it will come back as fake. By then it is too late.

All the scammer is interested in is the "extra" money they send "by mistake." They usually never come for the item they bought.

But seriously everyone, use some common sense. It's just like these new social security robocalls going around now, threatening to "suspend your social" if you don't do call and verify your information, pay some fine/fee... They played the call last Sunday morning on the radio. It's computer generated, full of bad grammar courtesy on the level only google translate can obtain, calling it "social" several times instead of "social security." It's so obviously a scam, yet people fall for it...
 
(quoted from post at 22:21:42 02/11/20) I got that code thing too, I didn't reply with the code. I assume it verifies that you are not a robot number. Ron MN

I went and looked up the code scam because that was a new one on me. It goes something like this: scammer creates a Craigslist account with your phone number, then gets you to send him the verification code. Then they start running sales scams on the account that's tied to YOUR number. So guess who the cops come looking for later on when people get scammed?
 

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