Where I work we almost got bitten by the scam and were lucky that I remembered reading something about it on Specialstage awhile back.
Being in the business of selling and servicing exotic cars we do deal with customers from all over. Just over a month ago we recieved a request to buy 2 Porsches and have them shipped to Holland. A casher's check arrived for the amount of the 2 cars etc with a letter explaining that the person had closed out an account and could the balance please be forwarded when the check cleared, a sum of $20,000. The interesting part is that the check did clear the bank on the first try yet we had them sit on it for 2 weeks just to make sure and sure enough it was a phoney and turned bad in about 10 days. There never was a transporter that showed up to get the cars and had we been over eager to please the customer and send the balance when it first cleared we would have been out the $20,000.
David Hackett
Being in the business of selling and servicing exotic cars we do deal with customers from all over. Just over a month ago we recieved a request to buy 2 Porsches and have them shipped to Holland. A casher's check arrived for the amount of the 2 cars etc with a letter explaining that the person had closed out an account and could the balance please be forwarded when the check cleared, a sum of $20,000. The interesting part is that the check did clear the bank on the first try yet we had them sit on it for 2 weeks just to make sure and sure enough it was a phoney and turned bad in about 10 days. There never was a transporter that showed up to get the cars and had we been over eager to please the customer and send the balance when it first cleared we would have been out the $20,000.
David Hackett
