Apparent Fraud

Wise decision. As outraged as we are about crooks, it's almost always best to walk away and let the authorities handle it (or ignore it and do nothing, as they often do).

 

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Good choice, boss. It’s even better than doing nothing because this way you’re on record as a targeted victim in case this guy gets funny. This was pretty nervy on his part. Best to not provoke a criminal mind like this.

 

Dear Sir
I have the coin ready to ship. Just waiting on payment.
It's a pretty coin. Hope you have not changed your mind.
Please let me know.
ToughCoins

This would be truthful. You have not been paid. Maybe he will send a second money order. You could start a collection of fake MOs.

I would frame the MO and hang it on the wall as a reminder of all the crooks that are out there.

 

I don’t think you want to get cute with a moron like this.

 

I love it... If you have one you are just a hoarder, but TWO is a COLLECTION!

 

You all are very civil like..

 

This is a common fraud actually. One of my customers had a couple things for significant money he thought sold and paid for by fraudulent stolen cashiers checks. Genuine checks that were stolen from a business when the addresses don’t match up and the states in particular beware. I had a similar experience selling a car I kept getting fraudulent purchase offers after I said ok until it started getting fishy on the first one. They sent a cashiers check for more than the amount which I was supposed to cash and pay the balance to the shipper. I said no way once I realized it was a scam. Then I kept getting texts from other scam artists trying the same thing. Another tell was their English wasn’t good either.

 

This thread has made me think of something that happened about 44 years ago. Yes, I was young and I took a job at Christmas in a retail drug store. I learned a lot in that job. It was supposed to last no more than 2 months but I was there over 10 years. I became an Assistant Manager with them.

I worked as a clerk in my store in my first spring. I was stocking some items near one of the registers when the store manager came up and asked me about the cash register at one of the multiple checkout lanes, the one on the end closest to the exit door.

Long story cut to the chase, someone had come in and stolen the register. No money was in it but they walked out of the store with the cash register and electric cord to operate it.

It was reported and a police report was filed. A few months later in walked an individual with a sales receipt from that register. Being as the machine had not been cleared out in the closeout procedures the date was still set for the day it was stolen.

The guy tried to return an expensive item with a receipt. He claimed he bought the item last week but the date was months old. A manager said he needed to call for approval due to the dollar amount to which the customer agreeded.

Since the police department was less than a mile away 2 uniformed officers were there within 2 minutes. The manager had the paperwork filled out. The customer gave a phony name, address and phone number. Needless to say, he was arrested and pled guilty. Then the store got its cash register back.

Not sure why this thread brought back this memory but it did.

 

BOY..... Nut that was deep in the Archives 44 yrs ago... and it was triggered...

 

It happens... Some of us remember history...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/doomed-to-repeat-it

Some developer clown was telling me this morning that we couldn't be working on two simultaneous releases.

I told him that I have been doing it in 1986 (albeit that is only 34 years ago) and we have far better tools today.

I didn't mention that based on the evidence he wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.

 

I'd report the guy.

There will always be another jerk trying to rip people off, but at least this would be one less person.

 

Yes it was. I had basically forgotten about it but something in this thread brought it back like it was yesterday.

 

You still have the street address.... you could periodically drop random BS mail/letters/whatever to them with no return address..... I think he might end up subscribed to a whole lot of 'questionably themed' magazines or something.

 

Now we wait for the new TV series "NCIC: CoinTalk" to air...

Starring ToughCOINS with a special guest cameo appearance by @GDJMSP
;-)

 

It's interesting when you go back and watch your favorite TV shows of the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's and see a star who became much bigger later on.

Also many actors literally went from show-to-show playing bad guys and would get 10-12 acting gigs a year. Made a pretty good living as the "Special Guest Star...." on lots of TV shows.

You watch THE BIG VALLEY or BONANZA or GUNMOKE or THE WILD WILD WEST or even STAR TREK and see people years or decades before they hit it big.

And sometimes, a few people were 1-and-done or close to it.

OK, back to our regularly scheduled programming......

 

He ditched the hat for those truly annoying Liberty mutual commercials

 

It could be worse TC. You could have V Kurt Bellman representing you. He'd be the first to say he had Perry Mason beat hands down.