Fact: Friend puts rims for his car up on craigslist for $750.
Fact: Man contacts him, wanting to buy the rims for $750. Man claims he will ship check for $750 and will send someone to pick the rims up after the check goes through.

Fact: Check shows up for $2900. Friend expects check to bounce, it goes through and he is sitting on $2900 in cash.

Fact: Name on check is different than name of buyer. Buyer refuses to provide any info other than name "Mike Jones" and email.

Scammer has my friend's address and name. (obv to ship the check)

What's the move?

fact that money is now his since check went to him and into bank account so cash plays don't send rims for awhile see what happens consider it good luck

Beat: Check will bounce, it just hasn't yet.

He has it in cash you twat.

Just got weirder too... he just got an email

Hi there,
How are you today? I will like to tell
you that the payment will be delivered
to you today via USPS. if you have
gotten the check you can go ahead and
cash/deposit it and as soon as you
cash it... You withdraw the shipper
fund and $100 for the troubles and send
the balance to the shipper information
below through MoneyGram at any Wal-Mart
or MG Agent location store Near you .
The shipper is due in your location as
soon as the money is received. Below is
the shipper information.......

Name: Randall ------
City: ---
State: NY
Zip Code: ------
After you send the shipper fund via
MoneyGram ,U will need to get back to
me with the following info below:
Sender Name
Reference # on MG Receipt Given to you
Actual Amount Sent after deduction of
MG Transfer Fees

Please do not forget to deduct the MG
Sending Fees from the amount you
sending to the shipper information
.Dont forget to send me the map quest
to your location for easy passage to
the shipper.kindly get back to me asap
with MG info needed asap.
Thanks
PS: You dont need street address when
sending funds via MoneyGram
payment delivered via USPS...

Maybe he wanted all 4 rims.

at 750/piece that's... 3000...

-100 for pickup = 2900.

Possible this guy is just stupid.

Either way. Give him the rims.

Take the money.

wat

dis is a good riddle, riddler

this is a classic scam. The check is initially honored at your bank, but a week to ten days later the bank finds out it bounced. You have shipped the rims (and possibly $2000) and you are SOL. Be very explicit with the bank that there is NO chance of them coming back at you before you ship the rims.

How can the bank come collect the cash back from my friend?

clarify this plz

Haven't you ever seen catch me if you can!?!?

This sounds like a scam where the scammer will post a deal up on CL for $2900. Then when someone calls him he gives your friend's address/name to ship the monies to. Then the scammer uses that to buy the rims your friend was selling. Once he has the rims he can disappear into the night like Batman.

At the end of it all some poor dude is left out $2900.

OUTSTANDING!

does sound like hes paying $750 a rim imo

Mike Jones is an American southern rap artist and actor

he's just cutting off communication and keeping the 3k

this is prolly what is going on

this is like the worst thing he could do, especially if the other dude sending him the money was legit. There are other ways to guarantee he doesn't get scamed, and without being an ******* about it

How so

what you do is tell him that you are going to wait 14 days before you ship the rims because you dont want to get scammed.

you call the bank and make sure that the check is not fraudulent. You call guy (the name / number on the check, or ask the bank for it), and make sure it isnt a stolen check (it is).

if the guy doesnt have the money or it is stolen, they could take the money back from your friend's account. If he doesnt have enough to cover the check, they could put a big negative number in his account, and possibly ruin his credit, put their debt collector people on him, etc.

this doesnt sound good.. definitely sounds like fake / fraudulent check scam.. what happend is this crackhead probably stolel somebody's checkbook and is trying to buy everything they can that they dont need an ID to buy.. such as **** off craigslist.. it will come back to you, even if you have cash in hand right now. contact the name on the check.. get the info from the bank.

THis happened to me too but they sent a check for 4800 for a 1200 item. I got the check but didnt cash it nor send the item. This scam happens all the time. Go cash it at one of those quick check cashing places where you dont have an account of have to show ID.

he cashed the check you dont have to depsoit checks you can just cash them and keep the money.

Thank you captain obvious

Are you really the only one in the world who hasn't read this:

http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams

I think I solved it, with help from my little Watson called "Google": Mike Jones is actually a Houston based rapper! Where is the world going, one wonders...

already stated fyi