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Be wary of doing business with a guy named Johnson Williams (email address johnsonwilliams [email protected]).

He will agree to buy your item for a set amount, send you a check for much more than the agreed amount and will ask you to cash the check and give the balance to the shipping company when they pick up the item. The check I receveived was drawn on Cheese Electronics in Brooklyn, New York.

I believe this is a scam as I have asked for an address to return the check and keep getting assurances that it is good.

Do not fall for this scam.

Billy
 
the 2 or 3 months i have been getting all kinds of messages saying i have won a sweepstakes or a long lost uncle or aunt died or someone i never heard of is looking for an honorable Christian person to leave their estate to as they recently learned they have cancer and will soon die and have no heirs.
 
Yes, it is most assuredly a scam, and one that has been around for some time. The cashier's check is forged (computer printers can make some pretty impressive things these days), and if you cash it, it will bounce, and you'll have to reimburse the bank for the whole thing, including the cash you sent to the "shipper" (who is actually the buyer's friend).
 
I was raised with a healthy dose of skepticism. I might have missed some real opportunities along the way, but I surely took a pass on quite a few scams. Funny, I wasn't raised in Missouri, but more and more I want people to 'show-me'.

Christopher
 
This is a far reaching scam. I got one last year and two this year from the same email address. Real gets under your skin when you're trying to sell hay and machinery and you have to deal with stuff like this!
 
I had the same guy email me this week. He didn't ask any questions about the item as far as size and shipping. I also forgot to list the corn head.
This was a Oliver 7600 combine. Because he didn't ask the right questions as a normal buyer would, I knew something was wrong. He just wanted the address of where he could send the check. The phone number was from Chicago ??? He would tell me where he was or where he wanted the combine shipped.
 
I got one yesterday I think from the same person. Wants to buy my tractor. Little problem,I don't own a tractor.
 
This would be the perfect transaction! He doesn't really want a tractor, so why not sell him one that doesn't exist? Cuts through all the bothersome issues about condition, hauling, etc. Pity he'll be paying with a fantasy check- that kind of ruins the whole thing. . .
 
That is one reason that I deal only with Paypal it Keeps all the scammers from getting though and they guarantee the amount if one does bounce.
Walt
 
What I don't get is people must still be falling for this crap or the bad guys would quit sending the junk out. Just like drugs for sale spam, some idiots must be buying the junk or the emails would stop.
 
this is one of the most common scams. It seems like every time I advertise something for sale I get a lot of these emails and they are usually all worded very similarly. I always just delete them.
 
There are lots of good stories on the internet where people have scammed the scammer waisting their time, and getting them to pay money to have them send you their fake check.
 
Mike that is a good point. I don't even have to air the tires or make sure it runs.Bad check for a fake tractor not good.
 
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