Originally posted by: Blammo300
To make a long story short I recently sold a freezer on craigslist to a guy who was moving here from the UK. The freezer was sold for $250, but the guy said he accidentally sent me a cashiers check for $3000 and that when I received the check I was to take it to a Cashing Outlet, Cash it, then send the remaining money to him in the UK via Western Union, then a shipper would come and pick the freezer up.
I was very skeptical especially since I did not get a return address or phone number, so I decided not to take it to a cashing outlet but a bank to see if they could authenticate it. At the bank they told me the account on the check was not real and it was indeed a counterfeit check. I emailed the guy back and told him I knew about his scam and I wasn?t going to fall for it. He has now been sending me emails telling me that he is going to kill me soon unless I send him his money. I received about 4 of these such emails.
My question to you guys is who can I report this to? Is there anyway to track this guy down by his IP or can I report it to his domain, which is yahoo? Please keep in mind this guy now has my home address.
Craigslist already has had plenty of experience with these scams as you can see if you visit the link below.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.htm
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