Might be getting scammed..... please help and give me your input....

PremiumG

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Ok, so i'm selling my Dell monitor online. I get this email from a lady in spain who says she will buy it at the selling price. She's in Spain so right away, this raises a flag to me. Why would she buy a monitor here?? So I tell her ok, thinking she wont send me anything. She sends me two money orders, in the amount of $1000 each. So she overpaid by a huge amount. She sends an email to me about payment and trust saying how her secretary sent out the wrong amount of money.

So now I have two money orders for $1000 each. Classic scam right? Overpay me, then I compensate and give her the difference. Then it turns out the money she gave me was fake and doesn't clear. Also, the money order was sent with no return address. Another big flag.

But to me, these money orders look pretty darn real!! How can I check to see if these US Postal MOs are real or fake? Why would someone send $2000 for a monitor selling for bout $300. That seems like a huge mistake.

Please advice.
 

Cuda1447

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Keep the monitor, keep the money. You just made $2000 from either an idiot... or you wasted zero time and gained nothing from a scammer. Either way its a win/win situation for you.
 

Bozono

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Cash Money Orders. Buy return air to Spain. Hand deliver monitor. Be back by Monday.
 

Alchemist99

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100% scam, doh! go to your bank to find out about the fake money orders.and update us please, ty.
 

dugweb

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Originally posted by: PremiumG

Please advice.

it would be 'please advise' or 'advice please'

what kind of monitor was it? im needing a new monitor
 

PremiumG

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i will definitely take these to the Post office and try to verify them.

These are pretty darn good counterfiets though. I mean they look absolutely real.
 

PremiumG

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Originally posted by: dugweb
Originally posted by: PremiumG

Please advice.

it would be 'please advise' or 'advice please'

what kind of monitor was it? im needing a new monitor

whoops!! yeah, should be advise.

its a dell 1905FP in West LA if you're interested.
$325
 

intogamer

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Its like a note... you lift it to the light and in the oval white circle you will see a benjamin

I never knew that until teh PO guy told me at the counter...
he said west=black ink
east=blue ink
 

dugweb

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Originally posted by: PremiumG
Originally posted by: dugweb
Originally posted by: PremiumG

Please advice.

it would be 'please advise' or 'advice please'

what kind of monitor was it? im needing a new monitor

whoops!! yeah, should be advise.

its a dell 1905FP in West LA if you're interested.
$325

that's a great monitor, and i'd probably pick it up, but i just sold one myself! :p im lookin to get the 2005fp ;)
 

PremiumG

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took money order to the post office. They said they were definitely fake. (fibers were present, but no watermarks) The detective was suppose to give me a call, but its been like 3 weeks so i guess its not that important to them.

 

JulesMaximus

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Originally posted by: PremiumG
took money order to the post office. They said they were definitely fake. (fibers were present, but no watermarks) The detective was suppose to give me a call, but its been like 3 weeks so i guess its not that important to them.

Any response from the scammer? If so, I'd send a reply saying that you took the money orders to the US Post Office and they turned them over to detectives.
 

Kalbi

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Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: PremiumG
took money order to the post office. They said they were definitely fake. (fibers were present, but no watermarks) The detective was suppose to give me a call, but its been like 3 weeks so i guess its not that important to them.

Any response from the scammer? If so, I'd send a reply saying that you took the money orders to the US Post Office and they turned them over to detectives.

and had fingerprints that they forwarded to interpol
 

dabuddha

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Originally posted by: Kalbi
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: PremiumG
took money order to the post office. They said they were definitely fake. (fibers were present, but no watermarks) The detective was suppose to give me a call, but its been like 3 weeks so i guess its not that important to them.

Any response from the scammer? If so, I'd send a reply saying that you took the money orders to the US Post Office and they turned them over to detectives.

and had fingerprints that they forwarded to interpol

And scammer comes down and kills the OP to do away with any witnesses.
 

Eeezee

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Well, you've found out it's a scam. You may want to put that monitor back up for auction =p Try ebay?
 
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Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: PremiumG
took money order to the post office. They said they were definitely fake. (fibers were present, but no watermarks) The detective was suppose to give me a call, but its been like 3 weeks so i guess its not that important to them.

Any response from the scammer? If so, I'd send a reply saying that you took the money orders to the US Post Office and they turned them over to detectives.

Idiot. You keep them waiting and ask them to reverify the address, etc etc, so that the Feds can send them to PMITAP :p

- M4H
 

dud

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"Overpay me, then I compensate and give her the difference. Then it turns out the money she gave me was fake and doesn't clear. Also, the money order was sent with no return address. Another big flag. "


OP, you knew all along ...