Im EXTREMELy P/O'd

[300exr]

Well I have had my 300ex for sale for a while, and sunday I get a call from someone by relay call(what def people use) saying they would give me 2300 for it. He said he would send me a check, and then I could send the quad to him. I was like whatever floats your boat. He also contacted me by email and his grammer was way off, like a foreign person. I was not suspicious:rolleyes: , stupid me. Any way I tried sending him numerous emails asking for his adress and all, but no reply. So today I get a check in the mail for $5,000, and we conacted authorities and it was indeed fake, and I am very lucky that I didnt cash it, becasue I would have been owing someone 5 grand. So apparently this is common from people in Nigeria or somwhere overseas. So basically, if you sell your bike or quad, or anything, be d&mn sure that you know who your selling it to. ARGH im so pissed right now, and now I have to wait longer to go buy a YZ125.:mad:

[JRP]

that sucks man, maybe thast telling you to keep your 300?:blah:

[300exr]

lmao, yea, maybe, but then again, maybe not

that SAME THING happened to my buddy selling his mountain bike, he got a check for $10,000. and he took it to the bank and they told him it was countiefiet, blah blah blah, and it was from africa. i guess there is really no way to catch them over there.

africa really sucks, but if you think about it it could be a really nice place!! they got sick beahces and ****, just everbody who lives there is ******* PSYCO

[Ruby Soho]

That sucks

[YFZ450Ridr]

isnt that the most popular scam going on around the internet? ill send you 10 grand and u send me 5 back? ive herd of that one a lot around here.

[fandl450r]

Yea this scam is extremely common, and 99% of the time it's impossible to trace. Same thing happened to my parents this last week when they tried to sell an oak entertainment center on craiglist. Said they would buy it for $2000, they "mistakenly" sent a check for 6500 and wanted the rest wired back. God what people will do to make a buck, it just makes me sick.

[zeppelin]

well, you know what they say, better to be pissed off, than pissed on.

[TheFontMaster]

This happens alot. Your lucky that you cought that before you tryed cashing the check.

Originally posted by zeppelin
well, you know what they say, better to be pissed off, than pissed on.

lmao..my dad says that all the time when im mad :devil:

[quad2xtreme]

Originally posted by LTZ400ridr
isnt that the most popular scam going on around the internet? ill send you 10 grand and u send me 5 back? ive herd of that one a lot around here.

I am really to reverse that scam. Send me $5 and I will send you 10 grand back. ;)

[300exr]

Well to make my day better, I just found out my dad was in a nasty car wreck and my 17 month old little brother had to be taken to th E/R becasue he got bitten by a cat that didnt have any vaccination shots. Just not my day:(

[WhiteYFZ]

that sucks. i read an articly on this, but i forgot where.