Have any other people been harassed by someone involving Postal Money Orders?

Question

I put a higher priced musical instrument for sale on a major city's newspaper's website and recieved an email indicating interest in purchase. Quickly the emails became odd and obviously "scam oriented" as the purchaser told me he was sending twice the purchase price in Postal Money Orders and wanted me to send the other half (sounds like laundering) to an account. I checked on wikipedia, FBI and USPS websites and all sound like this is a scam originating from Ghana or Nigeria. I sent a final email a while ago indicating the instrument had been sold and that he should not call,email or send me anything. He has called through AT&T assisted internet calls but I have not answered. The phone messages have been rude and angry and it's somewhat disconcerting. What should I do if I recieve the illegal postal money orders? What should I do in general?
thanks

Answer 1

You run down to the Post Office and state that this is fraud.

The office will take the money orders and forward tehm to the Postal Inspection Service, who will attempt to trace it back to origin and put these clowns out of business

Answer 2

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Answer 3

if you receive the money order. Don't cash it is a scam. It it is legit don't cash it as he has to wait 6-8 weeks before he can place a tracer on it and then another 8-12 weeks before the Post Office will give him his money back for the grief of the rude phone call

Answer 4

they are fraudulent send them to the postal inspector in your area

Answer 5

You may have to notify the United States Postal Inspection Service. They'll take care of the mail frauds.

I have experience several people coming up on AIM or YIM asking me for help to cash checks cuz they cant get their money from the states while overseas. So, I direct them to U.S. Embassies. Example 1:
A girl come up to me and pose as a nice girl and wants to chat for several days to make you think she's innocent and nice. She's from California but went to Nigeria to help her sick ill mother and several days later she asked me for help for that she cant cash checks while she's in nigeria. So, I told her go to the near by U.S. Embassy in Nigeria. And she says: No, I dont want their help. So, I rose suspicion on her, and told her i cant do cash checks without proper IDs and if you continue, I'll notify the Interpol. She stopped talking and I havent heard from her for days.

Example 2: A girl came up to me and ask me my name, where i from, and if i'm single, and I told her that im single she insist on me to be her boyfriend because her late father had died and left $10 million for her but she cant touch it until she gets a boyfriend. So, that ring in my mind "until she get's a boyfriend?" Never heard of it so I played along. And told her what do i get when i fake it as a boyfriend, she says she would give me $2 Million dollars. So, I played along and she wants me to talk to her lawyer. So she gave me her lawyer's email address and found out it was familiar to the scam alerts [e-mail](couldnt remmy the exact but for example), I immediately told her she's fradualent and she said she not doing anything fradualent and she's serious abt this and I asked her if I would allow INTERPOL to check this out and she said go ahead and do that....(signs off) perhaps, i scared her off.

Example 3: This girl came up to me and ask me where i am from , my name, my age, and if im married. She said she's from MI, and is working as a red cross volunteer and imposing as a deaf girl which is that I'm deaf (she thinks deaf people are dumb, think again) she states that she's out of country and is in Badgdad, Iraq. I asked her how was the weather there, since its dark and chilly in Iraq at 9:34am U.S. Eastern Standard Times. And she told me the situation is bad (of course I know that I watched CNN) and then couple minutes later she ask me for help to cash some checks, and I was like well since you're in Iraq, go to the near by safe zone U.S. Embassy, they'll help you. She said: they wont help her. And I was like thinking to myself: An American Embassey in Bahgdad, can't help you? wow, interesting. All it does is to get the Iraq money and change it to American currency. Damn, what a dumbass. So, I told her i can't do that, i dont have a proper ID for doing all that cash checking. And she insist me on helping and I said well the United States Military is in Bahgdad, they'll help you and I have no authority over this. Sorry, and she got pissed off and said Gbye.

Bit of advice to all internet users, be aware of what's going on. ok? Dont fall into a trap. Dont trust anyone, anybody, while on the internet. Its a whole cruel cyberspace world. Take care and have a safe browsing on the NET.