BEWARE OF WHO YOU SELL TO!

It`s weird that you had that happen. I have been dealing with a man from Nigeria, about buying a puppy from me. He proposed the same thing. Except my fiance and I knew something wasnt right about this deal. He called and talked to the FBI and gave them the guys e-mail address.
Thanks Dee

I am SO GLAD I was on this site and read this, as I was right in the middle of processing an order for tuxedos and flowergirl dresses from someone in Nigeria!! I was a little unsure of how things were going, and just yesterday, I got a cashiers check...looking VERY authentic...for $4500 which was $3300 MORE than the order should have been...followed by an email telling me I needed to send some of the money back because the guys commission had been included by mistake????? I took the check to the bank this morning and they ran tracers on it...it is a BIG, international scam! There have been many of these fraudulent checks sent to people, always with some type of request that money be mailed back. I have had to file police reports and inform the FBI Internet Fraud division etc!! This was a cashiers check, that was done up so good, that the bank said, had I not been suspicious, they would have processed it without much question since it WAS a cashiers check. Thank goodness, I had read Megan`s note, was already suspicious, and had NOT ordered the products. I am not out any money...just a lot a of time! BEWARE of buying or selling ANYTHING coming from Nigeria!! I was communicating with someone supposedly named Larry John, with a Yahoo address, but in the end, I was to send $3300 back to someone in Lagos, Nigeria Africa, who had a decidedly African name, and do it by bank wire transfer, such that they would have MY money immediately, without recourse on my part....and later I would have found out that the cashiers check was fake. By the way, the cashiers check was issued, supposedly, by a credit union in Memphis, Tennessee...just in case anyone reading this comes upon such a scheme! And, if anyone else has...I would recommend contacting the FBIs Internet Fraud Division, since we already know they are aware of this particular one, and are investigating it. They need all the hard info they can get. Why are people so EVIL??

Yes, we also contacted the FBI. I had saved all emails and passed them on to my mom to give the guy that is working on this. The person that tried this with me chose a very american sounding name and it was also a yahoo address. The check that we received was an american express cashiers check and I can`t remember the name that was signed ( I think something like Ginny Peters). The bank said this person had been doing this for years and was very persistant. In the future, I say only sell to US buyers (I`ve noticed a lot of ebay auctions are doing this now) and never accept a third party check. What a pain this is though!! You get excited that you can sell something and it`s a scam! AND I can`t figure out how to get my item off of this website. I know that the person that tried to scam me saw my dress here because of the names used. Uuugh!!