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Bill:

No, I don't take offense...I just thank you guys here at CC for highlighting the scams. Over the past year, I've purchased/sold losts of stuff over the internet for both my Lotus and Subaru and have always dealt with folks of integrity. The trouble is you get in a pattern of "trusting" folks you've never met before...so when I got the email from this guy, I was happy to get some movement on my Sportscar Specials, and made an email deal with him, and just yesterday, heard word back from him asking about his payment and the status of his "goods".

Of course I told him I never received payment....thing was, I didn't even recognize his check being from him as the "sendee" was this "Green Dot Corp" and seeing it was from "Wells Fargo" I associated it with some investments I was moving from WF over to Edward Jones and this more-than-requested payment amount didn't even register with me as being associated with my advert on CC. I thought it was a holding I had that Edward Jones couldn't take receipt of and had to be sold... so I was about to hand this check over to Edward Jones until the light clicked on in my brain last evening, and I called the Wells Fargo branch listed on the check and they confirmed it to be fraudulent.

So circumstances aside, I really appreciate the notices here on the forum, otherwise, I could have been a victim!

- Allen.