I had a similar experience from Craig's List. We advertised a cook top and received a message indicating that he wanted to buy the cook top for his cabin and his secretary would be sending the funds and someone would pick up the unit. The next message was "my secretary sent $1,775" (or some such number) rather than $75. Please send me a check for $1,700 and my colleague will pick up the cook top this weekend I am on the way to the cabin. This was too obvious. The cook top went to GoodWill. I hope he was not planning on it to cook dinner!

jlb