I work in law enforcement and was reading these posts. Currently, the latest fad (rip-off) is you will get an e-mail from someone wanting to purchase your item. They will pay top dollar and give you a story that where they live (normally overseas), You can't get the item you're selling. Anyway, they send you a cashiers check for the amount plus an extra amount so you arrange shipping. You put the check in your bank, wait a couple of weeks, you haven't heard anything, so you send the item. Sometimes, the check will be for an amount even more than the shipping, in which the purchaser advises for you to just send the extra back to them. Anyway, time goes by, the check is found to be fraud due to that the check coming from an overseas bank, presumably takes longer to clear. By the time you find out, your item is gone, you paid for it to be gone, and typically, your own account may be overdrawn due to the check being pulled back out of you usable balance. The FBI is getting numerous calls everyday from all across the country in which millions of dollars of fraud is taking place. I have heard of cars, electronics, about anythng you can imagine, be taken in this way. Unfortunately, with it occuring overseas, law enforcement have hardly any recourse to prosecute. Internet selling has got to be very dangerous and I would advise everyone to seriously consider any sales you make to outside the CONUS. And don't trust wiring money as well. A scam has been working with that as well. I don't know all the ins of that yet.
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