"Friend of owner"
Give it a try, for kicks and giggles!
Thats refreshing to hear around here for once. This market thinks if anything has more than 220hp its 100k. Doesn't matter what make and model, seat number, engine time, avionics. 100k. Lol.
Be my best guest.
Several years ago I was selling some of my old racing equipment. I get a call from a guy that sounded on the up and up, that he was knowledgeable about what I was selling and knew it was old. He wanted to send a postal money order and I said Ok.
A few days later I get a USPS money order for 900 bucks. The selling price was 800. I call the guy and told him I got the money order for 900 and the price we agreed on was 800. He said his wife did the money order for him and if it was acceptable to send the 100 bucks back.
The money order did not look right, the security tape going through it was printed, not made into the paper. I took it to the post office and they said it was fake, and took it from me. I gave them the buyer information that was given to me.
I called the guy back and asked him what the deal is, the money order is fake, and he hung up. I don't know what the post office did, if anything.
You think pilots are cheap, try dealing with racers...
People are gullible when it comes to getting a “deal” they toss reason aside to get that once in a lifetime deal from someone who just doesn’t know what they are selling!! Happens a lot with classic cars! Craigslist posting of a desirable car or truck, old Mustang or Bronco, the seller is military and he will have it shipped to you! Send money to their fake escrow account and it’s on the way!!
The scammers play on our greed!!
I messed with a guy, maybe the same one for about 10 days, I really enjoyed scamming him!! He did send me a copy of a drivers license that was an actual person, I contacted him on Facebook and let him know about the scammer with his id.
That was my fist thought, but AFAIK, Nate never lived in Phoenix.
We had a company send us a check for two used vehicles we had listed online, $48,000.00 they contacted us about the time the check arrived. One vehicle was sold, so they just wanted the one, we could send them the change, less shipping costs!I was selling a coolspace once for $300. They sell for $500 new with free shipping but shipping for this used one would have been a nightmare so I put it on Craigslist. Some guy expressed interest and mailed me a check for $5000. Said I needed to wire the rest to the shippers. These criminals really need to a little research.
The check was from a pet food company in south Florida (chewy.com). But the return address was from Michigan. I contacted them and told them what was going on. It wasn’t their account number on the check. I figured with a forged check sent through US mail that would get some action. I contacted the USPS, sheriff's office and the FBI. Not one of them could give a crap.
I guess that’s this type of stuff is so common. There’s a trillion to one chance that any LEO's will ever come looking for you.
Anyway, the company was legit, it was one of their checks, but that check had already been cashed and it was written in Canadian funds originally! The scammers kept asking if we had deposited the check, we said yes of course, we never did. No law enforcement had any interest.