Guest Mel B Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 I recently put some items on the MMM Internet 'Cash Mart' with my husband's email contact address. He received an email from someone interested in one of our items and, after a few emails back and forth with photos etc, we were then offered £2,500 from which we should take the amount we wanted for our item and then send the remaining money to the person's bank account. The emails were in English, although it did leave something to be desired (no he wasn't an English teacher!!!). I have heard of this buying scam before so we knew to kick it into touch once it became apparent - we declined to sell the item to the person concerned. I just wondered if anyone else has had the same problem from items they've advertised in this way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pete walker Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 hi mel b, i hav'nt but plenty have, i think that there are warnings about simmilar scams in the small adds in mmm. pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest David Powell Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Hi Mel B...I have ben told it is money laundering. So obviously have nothing to do with it. On the other hand some one may be trying to get your bank details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pete walker Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 what they do is, send you a cheque for £2500, you put into your account, when the bank/building society tell you that it has cleared,you send on the rest of the cash and a while latter you get a letter saying that the cheque has bounced and then you lose the lot, this apparently is something to do with the way that they clear cheques. pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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