Craigs List Scam hits Omaha Truck Seller

Posted on 22 May/2007 by mxw

The owner of a truck in Omaha Nebraska was almost caught by a scam commonly used to dupe people out of thousands of dollars using the comm ads website, Craigs List (www.craigslist.org). He was trying to sell his truck on the site and was contacted by a buyer who sent him a cashiers check by UPS, The truck sold for $5000 but the check was for $10,000 and he had instructions to cash the check and wire the remaining $5,000 to another address in Billings Montana.
The victim was a retired police officer and smelled a rat. He contacted the KETV NewsWatch 7 I-Team investigation who did some investigating….Full Story.

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