I had a guy from allegedly South Africa that wanted to buy my ATV. After about 3 weeks of email dialogue and arrangements to send me a cashiers check for a returned purchased item, he wanted me to wire him the difference on the cashiers check and he would get back with me to make arrangements to pick up the bike. Everything went OK and I got the cahsiers check which was sent from Maine but from a bank in FL. I went to the bank they wanted to place a hold on the check for two days. Thank God they did. The alleged buyer aka "Alex" from South Africa wanted the returned difference wired that afternoon. The bank called the bank in Fl. ran the routing numbers and the cashiers check was a fake. The police had been notified and are trying to run down the persons involved. Luckily I wasn't out anything, but my guess is that he wanting me to cover the check myself and send him the difference and I would had never heard from him again. He didn't want the ATV he wanted the money. Word to the wise, be vary careful out there. There are alot of creeps out there that are willing to do anything for money.

 

The SAME EXACT thing happend to "ThePunisher" in the bomb forum!!!! It was probably the same guy!!!! He also caught it and he decided to keep his quad anyway..... That could get scarry!.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img]

 

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way too many scams going around with ATV's these days.

If the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is

damn shame too [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

 

I kno its getting riduculas this is like the fourth one ive heard about this month[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img]

 

in the past month I have heard anywheres from 5-7 scams on e-bay concerning cars, games, boats, atv's, and dirt bikes. Its un-real.

 

Those despreit bastards.... lol

 

5-7 in most cars boats atv atc etc? My guess is theres 15+ in just atvs alone. I feel sorry for some people don't catch on and lost 3k+.

 

i know, i'm just saying thats all I've heard of.....theres probly a s#!t load more. Its getting far to easy to get something for nothing.