Just read about a scam on Craig's List. Sounded like an experience I had recently, albiet not on that BBS.
I had listed a Cowboy Action Crescent 12 double hammer gun. Got some strange responses, the "buyer" wanted my personal e-mail address (NOPE, sorry) and then my home address and phone number (UNLISTED)- but he seemed "interested" and asked the appropriate questions.
Long story short, he kept telling me a Fed Ex would deliver the certified check, and I should deposit same in my bank account, then wire transfer part of it to his "offshore" account-He was going to send me a check way larger than the $400 asking price.
You can guess the rest. About every week or so I would get a e-mail, through the Web Site, a Personal Message I guess-advising me to watch for the "bonded delivery". As I never gave him any address or PO Box- made me very suspicious, so I reported same to the site Webmaster, also advised the BATF. He become very "strange" when I told him only a FFL signed dealer's license would work for this 'sale". I later sold it through an ad in an area paper Bargain Section, used my secure cell phone to weed out the "tire kickers" and met the buyer and took delivery for cash money- Done deal.
The folks who reported in the Press this "scam" were area farm folks, they had an older Allis-Chalmers tractor for sale at $1750. Boy Howdy, pays to be super careful now-a-days.
Most of us here avoid E-Bay, due to their "anti-gun" policies, but watch our for any "Craig's Lists" or even, I suppose, "Graig's Lists" as well. RWTF
