Here is how the scam works: you deposit the check, it clears, they take your couch and your "movers" money. Then days later the bank realizes the check is a fraud and you are responsible for the money.
My husband got one like that. From "Dr. Pepper" wanting him to wrap his car with logos. They sent him a check for $2500. Said to deposit it, keep $500 and send the 2000 back to them. Total scam. But I imagine plenty of people have fallen for it.
This happened to me a few times on craigslist. I just messed with them and asked a bunch of questions that annoyed them and eventually they got pissed. One guy was trying to buy a motorcycle jacket, so I asked him "what kind of bike do you ride?" He goes "I don't have time for questions! Do you want to sell your item or not?" I replied "You could have typed less characters and just told me what bike you ride, sounds like you're full of shit" I just couldn't imagine what the "end game" of this scam would be. Would "movers" actually show up to my house to collect my item and money?
@@PhilTheThrill yep they've had warnings all over the site warning about scams exactly like this for must be going on 20 years now and yet they are apparently still quite common
This is a common scam. The check when deposited will appear to clear as the funds will be added to your account. It'll take a bit of time for your bank to find that the check has bounced and then your bank will deduct the amount of the check back out of your account. Meanwhile the scammer put heavy pressure on you to pay the "mover" or "lawyer" or "church" or whoever they claim the additional amount was for hoping you do it before your bank can take action.
Great video. One problem, though, is that mail IS shipped all around the country, up a chain of hubs until it gets to a hub whose service area includes your location, then goes down the chain. It saves money on redundant routes.
Well, have fun with that. From what I've heard, they're gonna harass you until you pay the movers fee (or parts of it, they dont really care how much they receive, as long as it's a decent amount), but the check won't get deposited so you'll have to pay out of pocket and boom. You're poorer and they're richer.
Rafael Santos I would text Emmanuel, say that this is too complicated, you are refusing the check, and not to send the movers to your house and how would he find that anyway with only a PO Box?
Carl Siemens Movers who would again arrive at the PO Box, look at it, realize it's connected to a wall, and figure that they need to get more money. Our hero beat them to the punch by not giving his street address.
I dont think it's the item they want. They attempted this scam on me after I listed a motorcycle jacket and an older bicycle. Who's gonna try this elaborate scam just for a jacket or bicycle?
I just watched your videos and I haven’t laughed for months. Thanku..I just went through this whole ordeal for the romantic scammer on an oil rig. No I didn’t send any money..but I had fun along the way with this guy..anyway freakin awesome
Obviously gonna receive a counterfeit check and the movers are part of the crime so you'll lose your couch and $800. Better get police to catch them once they arrived at your place.
There are no movers. He will get the check and will be asked to pay the “movers” $800 of the $1100 check. After paying them, the check will be seen as counterfeit by the bank (takes a few days) and the remaining money will disappear from his account and he would end up owing the bank the money he sent to the scammer.
Yeah if there are no movers it is just sending a piece of paper. They need the movers to be paid or to get the couch to sell to make any money. Unless the scammer then asks to pay the movers by another cheque or credit payment prior to them coming.
FYI: Fedex sends everything to their mass sorting facility in Memphis. I used to work for a company that used Fedex almost exclusively. It was a nightmare for something to go from California to Arizona via Memphis.
so now because of you I finally figured out how they get the checks how they make them look real and how they do all their tricks thank you for posting this now I know how far they did it as I've always wondered how they got the checks
I have a garden toy for kids for sale. A person contacted me asking if it was still available I said yes and they then said the DHP wanted me to pay part delivery. They sent an email that was so a scam it was unbelievable. I forwarded to DHP and then told them a lie that I tried to pay it wouldn't go through. Dhp have let me know they never ask the seller to pay delivery. I guess this person didn't know I used to work for a fraud prevention agency.
2:01 actually this happens. Once I purchased an item on eBay; the item was in Chicago, and I have lived in Indianapolis. The item left from Chicago, and followed a route to Iowa, Missouri, back to Illinois and then Indiana. It took 6 days to receive the package.
Woah! Hey BTW!! (530) is a California area code! Specifically an area code for around where I live in Northern California! My phone number is a (530) number and so is everyone around me!
Ben, shipping never makes sense. I live in N.W. Florida, near Destin. I bought an item online from Homestead,FL. The item went to Atlanta, GA then Pensacola and finally to me. Husband bought lego pieces from a guy in TX. It went to Nashville TN over to Atlanta, down to Jacksonville, then over to Defuniak Springs and the FedEx truck apparently drove 50 minutes south to us. There is a FedEx hub 25 minutes closer. It never makes sense 🤪🤦♀️
I had and still have the same scam happen each time that I sell something on craiglist. They sent an extra $2500. I told them that I had cashed it, sent a pic of a huge stack of money with dudes name on it. Told him that I wouldn't pay the movers unless they showed up in person. He was pissed. Started threatening me. I lead him on or a week. It was awesome.
Wait...so they wanted you to transfer the "movers fee" before they ever even showed up? I. Really curious how this goes...I've had it attempted to me several times on craigslist but I never gave them my address and just asked a bunch of questions, pissing them off.
@@turtlepowersf so the scam goes like this. You sell something, they contact you, they say that they want the item and will buy it with money order and ask if that's okay. I say yeah because I know it's a scam. Then they proceed to tell you, this is all in text messages btw, that they are in the process of moving and the moving company will pick it up. I say okay. Then they say that they will include an extra amount of $ for me to pay the movers. I assume I will be paying the movers when they come pick up the item because that is how we do business in the USA. I agree. They also say that they will include an extra $50 or some other random amount for my time with dealing with the movers. I agree. They then send a fake cashier's check for some random amount over night to me. This has got to cost some one $10 or more bucks. I recieve the fake cashier's check/ money order and tell the scammer that I deposited the money and want the movers to pick up the item. This is when they tell me that I need to send the money to some random person via western union. This random person is said to be the mover. I tell them that I will pay the mover in person when they show. Meanwhile the scammer will always say things like he is trustworthy and ex military. As if being ex military means that a person is trustworthy. I will tell them that I am ex military and that I am keeping the cash. Then they threaten you with things that they think that Americans are afraid of. I had one scammer tell me that he was sending his niggas over. I laughed
@@travisk5589 wow, geez. Yeah part I was missing was when they'd ask you to send the money to the movers beforehand. Yeah that's nuts, not how we do business here.
HEY THAT HAPPENED TO ME!! I tried selling my bass guitar and someone from Texas was doing the same thing as this guy! I tried to sell it on craigslist and the person from Texas was like "I can send you $1800. Deduct $200 for how much the bass will cost, go to the bank and deposit the rest of the money to my account." The check was completely fake. Computer-like paper check. Faked named and address. So I ended up saying "Oh I am selling my bass to my next door neighbor. He is a police officer and he wants to buy the guitar for his son's birthday." the scammer said "OH NO we can work it out please! Take $200 and put the rest into your checking account then take it out and put it in my bank account".
This is a classic scam. Where they send you the check, in this case for 1'100$ dollars. The bank will accept the check and 1'100 will be in you account. The bank will notice after around 2 weeks that the check is fake, and will remove 1'100 from your account. This is when you have already pain the "movers" 800$. Meaning that the scammer will get away with 800$
Here is how the scam works: you deposit the check, it clears, they take your couch and your "movers" money. Then days later the bank realizes the check is a fraud and you are responsible for the money.
Earlier this year I ordered a DVD of Mel Gibson's Payback (because all you can find on sub/online is that remade trash) I watched tracking as it travelled from Georgia to Iowa to California, back to Iowa then to me in Florida... I told wife that someone had opened it, saw it was Payback (a movie erased from history as if by INGSOC) and shipped it around to all their buddies.. I imagined them all watching it in their breakroom and repackaging it to send elsewhere... it finally arrived in good condition.
That's a well known scam. The cheque will turn out to be counterfit or a legitimate cheque that has been modified in some way (account number changed, amount changed, payee changed, etc). Bonus points if it's a third party cheque. This type of thing is actually one of the reasons most banks put a week or two (or longer) hold on cheque deposits (and, of course, to catch NSF cheques). Odds are good it won't even be drawn on any bank account owned by any of the scammers. (It's likely to be someone else they scammed into giving them a cheque.) Someone tried pulling this one on me, once, when I was renting out a room. It didn't pass the smell test so I just refused. They went away, probably to try scamming the next person on their list.
I've used USPS a lot for time sensitive parcels, and anytime a tracking number is generated, the origin facility is *always* listed because that is where it enters the system as paid postage. sure, scans often get missed in transit, but the origin facility will always be in the tracking history as soon as the shipping label is created, before it even goes on a vehicle for shipment, so that's a definitely red flag and a lie - it couldn't have had postage paid in Texas. there's no way an envelope can be mailed from Texas with registered tracking and say it is being shipped from California - there is always an entry for the physical acceptance of the parcel into the system, even if that's the only entry... I've had packages end up in the wrong state, or go 3000 miles across the country from its origin post office to my door and only ever get scanned the once the whole way, but the origin facility is basically the single aspect of tracking that *can't* be screwed up, because the very act of creating the tracking number happens in the origin zip code, it's literally the first piece of information tracked besides the destination address. 99% certain, sure as I can be without actually having worked for them. just for the benefit of others watching, regarding sketchy mail claims.
I know it wasn’t the case here, but he’s right that things get sent out of the way to different facilities. If I want to mail something from Kentucky to Idaho, instead of getting a whole plane to take just a few packages, they’ll send it to a much larger state like New Jersey and then send it to Idaho.
I was talking to a scammer online before for 5 weeks. I was able to convince him I owned an electronics store and I was gonna ship him 20k worth of items to him. I also pretended to be an employee and I was on to his scam and I was gonna steal the items and tell the owner that they were shipped. The scammer ratted on the employee and told me to stop him and do the shipment myself. I also convinced the scammer I fired him and he tried to rob me and I was in the hospital for 2 weeks. It was a very fun.
I got this exact scam once! I deposited the check and told them I'd only pay them once it cleared.. needles to say, it never cleared. I did however continue to communicate with them and waste as much of their time as I possibly could. It was all I could do.
This is a common scam. Someone out of state (or province) pays by cheque with extra for movers. The victim recieved the cheque and deposits it. The victim sees the additional funds in their account and send money to the movers. The movers are a front by the scammers and take the money. Meanwhile, the cheque bounces and the victim is scammed.
This is a very common tactic. Have had this tried to me once. The check comes but it would bounce if you cashed it. So you are out the total amount of the check from your personal account
I live in Ohio and I bought something online where the seller was also in Ohio, I thought, perfect, all they have to do is go from his local post office to my local post office... Well instead they decided to send the package all the way to Illinois then back to Ohio. Took 2 weeks to get the item. I was pissed! So yes, the post office is garbo and a joke.
Classic scam! They ask you to sent the $800 before the check clears. The check is obviously fake and it will bounce. There is no mover, he doesn't care about the couch, he doesn't even remember what he is buying, he call it an "item". I bet he doesn't even need your address...
I wish people would stop saying the USPS is broke, they are the only organization on Earth thats required to prefund all future retiree benefits. So they're paying approximately $6 BILLION in addition to all current benefits and operating expenses. The USPS is profitable and a valuable American institution, slandering them based on untruths is unnecessary.
I live in Alaska and I've seen a package leave California, go to Texas, Then Tennessee, then back to California then 3 cities in Washington, then Alaska. In fact a lot of packages come from Asia and I am thinking, "Anchorage Alaska is a Major hub, yet I pay huge fees for packages that actually land here via plane then fly to California to do this....wth." Most the time I make orders I see packages go in every wrong direction until they get here.
I shipped an item from Brooklyn NY going into Manhattan NY. It took USPS 2weeks to ship it there and it was shipped to NJ first before coming back to NY.
Its a classic, they send u a fake cheque for more than you asked for. Then they ask you to send that extra amount to a third party which is most likely also them ( this case movers) and you send them money out of your account and then it turns out the cheque has bounced.
Obviously a scam from the get-go: scammers always ask if your "item" is still available, because they're sending the same message to many people. Anybody who actually wants to buy your couch will call it a couch.
I received a similar message, he wanted to pay me 800.00 more than I was asking for the TV, and he would have a moving truck arriving, he would send a check. funny how same type of story.
Dude I live in Kentucky and I’ve ordered things from Amazon that get shipped from Tennessee then go to Michigan then come to Kentucky. Yes this is why the postal service loses money.
What is going to happen next if you continue the transactions are: you give the movers(guy buying it and his friends) the check after you deposit 300 dollars, they canceled the check, the bank claim 300 from you and the guy buying gets his couch played by you
this is happened to me so many times I've lost count and the worst part about it is I suffer from bipolar agoraphobia and I'm on disability and yeah this really sucks I had some guy try to pull this s*** with me the other day and I had enough
Spoiler alert... The check is from a legitimate but unaware 3rd party. This happened to me at work. When I received the check, I called the owner of that bank account. They had no idea what I was talking about. I sent them the check and it turns out a scammer got their routing and account info and printed a fake check. Which is why they want you to deposit it into your account and give them the remaining amount. *On the edge of my seat waiting to see how this turns out!
There was this guy wanting to buy a paintball gun from my friend and he tried to pull a check scam saying he is a marine biologist and can only pay with checks and most of his details didn’t add up and my friend asked him for proof he was a marine biologist and he never texted back. This happened in October of 2019
I had a guy try this with a used motorcycle jacket. I asked him "what kind of bike do you ride?" And he got pissed, telling me he doesn't have time to answer questions, ""Do you want to do business or what?"...after that I just started effing with him and he eventually told me to fuck off.
2:25 Saw in some video about lost packages, the tracking of such a package instead of going north one state it decided to go east to the coast and back to get one state north.
I doubt you’ll see this. But when he said the check went from Texas to California, that actually does happen a lot in delivering, especially low priority shipping. Now I’m not saying he is honest which he’s 100% not. But when stuff is shipped around it will go to hubs that deliver to certain areas, and sometimes the hub in Texas may not deliver to your area, so they send it to one that will. You see this when your package bounces around. That or the Texas hub may not be making a trip to there until, say 3 weeks later? But then the California hub is conveniently going in 3 days so it’s going to California. It’s weird but it does happen. This dude is total bs though
Awww yess new video? Can I be pinned?
boi, you are pinned. you lucky fuck XD
No
Bruh
You show on the map the package going from Texas to California to Utah but you're pointing to Colorado not Utah!
no
Here is how the scam works: you deposit the check, it clears, they take your couch and your "movers" money. Then days later the bank realizes the check is a fraud and you are responsible for the money.
EpicATrain yea ik someone tried to scam my friend like that. Its actually quite common on Craigslist.
Yep that is the “craigslist” scam as we call it.
My husband got one like that. From "Dr. Pepper" wanting him to wrap his car with logos.
They sent him a check for $2500. Said to deposit it, keep $500 and send the 2000 back to them. Total scam. But I imagine plenty of people have fallen for it.
This happened to me a few times on craigslist. I just messed with them and asked a bunch of questions that annoyed them and eventually they got pissed. One guy was trying to buy a motorcycle jacket, so I asked him "what kind of bike do you ride?" He goes "I don't have time for questions! Do you want to sell your item or not?" I replied "You could have typed less characters and just told me what bike you ride, sounds like you're full of shit" I just couldn't imagine what the "end game" of this scam would be. Would "movers" actually show up to my house to collect my item and money?
@@PhilTheThrill yep they've had warnings all over the site warning about scams exactly like this for must be going on 20 years now and yet they are apparently still quite common
The start of another documentary!!
I think this one is gonna end a lot sooner and will be a lot less wholesome.
Haha someone tried to do this exact scam to my friend but with a dirt bike instead. This is very common on craigslist.
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Mobile Force One I smell cap
Thats bs. Your channel has destiny 2 videos and shit. I dont Think you have that in Nigeria if u arent already wealthy
@@trappingforjesus9220 i know right.
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This is a common scam. The check when deposited will appear to clear as the funds will be added to your account. It'll take a bit of time for your bank to find that the check has bounced and then your bank will deduct the amount of the check back out of your account. Meanwhile the scammer put heavy pressure on you to pay the "mover" or "lawyer" or "church" or whoever they claim the additional amount was for hoping you do it before your bank can take action.
But how would someone pay the "mover" if no "mover" ever shows up to your house? Everyone keeps skipping over that detail.
Great video. One problem, though, is that mail IS shipped all around the country, up a chain of hubs until it gets to a hub whose service area includes your location, then goes down the chain. It saves money on redundant routes.
Well, have fun with that. From what I've heard, they're gonna harass you until you pay the movers fee (or parts of it, they dont really care how much they receive, as long as it's a decent amount), but the check won't get deposited so you'll have to pay out of pocket and boom. You're poorer and they're richer.
Rafael Santos I would text Emmanuel, say that this is too complicated, you are refusing the check, and not to send the movers to your house and how would he find that anyway with only a PO Box?
Waya525
There are no movers.
Carl Siemens Movers who would again arrive at the PO Box, look at it, realize it's connected to a wall, and figure that they need to get more money. Our hero beat them to the punch by not giving his street address.
Waya525
Oh course! What was I thinking?
You know the drill🤣
I would not be surprised if the men that were sent to you will just mug u for the couch
PO BOX.....
RetrixTV PO Box is where the check was sent, he said the mover guys are being sent to his house
There are no movers.
I dont think it's the item they want. They attempted this scam on me after I listed a motorcycle jacket and an older bicycle. Who's gonna try this elaborate scam just for a jacket or bicycle?
I just watched your videos and I haven’t laughed for months. Thanku..I just went through this whole ordeal for the romantic scammer on an oil rig. No I didn’t send any money..but I had fun along the way with this guy..anyway freakin awesome
Obviously gonna receive a counterfeit check and the movers are part of the crime so you'll lose your couch and $800. Better get police to catch them once they arrived at your place.
Lukas Kopp There is no mover, he just want the $800. He already forgot what he was buying.
There are no movers. He will get the check and will be asked to pay the “movers” $800 of the $1100 check. After paying them, the check will be seen as counterfeit by the bank (takes a few days) and the remaining money will disappear from his account and he would end up owing the bank the money he sent to the scammer.
Why would anyone fall for that? Doesn't make sense at all if the movers don't have to be paid with cash.
Yeah if there are no movers it is just sending a piece of paper. They need the movers to be paid or to get the couch to sell to make any money.
Unless the scammer then asks to pay the movers by another cheque or credit payment prior to them coming.
You’re wrong
A package always goes through a larger sorting facility (either a secondary or a superhub) before it reaches the smaller post offices.
Its just a cheque
True but the teaching shows where it originated which _should_ be Texas, if this were legitimate (spoiler, it's not).
FYI: Fedex sends everything to their mass sorting facility in Memphis. I used to work for a company that used Fedex almost exclusively. It was a nightmare for something to go from California to Arizona via Memphis.
The thing I most like about your videos are the music and sound effects, especially the comical drum one 🤣
Aww I found the Emmanuel vs Ben origin story!
Your attempt to keep an open mind is giving you a REALLY open mind.
This has become my favorite RUclips Channel.
I've had a package bypass my house twice when I could have driven 25 miles to go pick it up via FedEx
Absolutely love everything from this channel. Looking forward to where this leads.
yess youre back, i missed your videos for real. unique content!
Such an amazing channel thank you for the upload big man
Hey guys! I hope you have a nice day and stay safe, God bless you!
Always a great thing when there’s a new pleasant green series
so now because of you I finally figured out how they get the checks how they make them look real and how they do all their tricks thank you for posting this now I know how far they did it as I've always wondered how they got the checks
I have a garden toy for kids for sale. A person contacted me asking if it was still available I said yes and they then said the DHP wanted me to pay part delivery. They sent an email that was so a scam it was unbelievable. I forwarded to DHP and then told them a lie that I tried to pay it wouldn't go through. Dhp have let me know they never ask the seller to pay delivery. I guess this person didn't know I used to work for a fraud prevention agency.
This new set is the best
Love the background music that you use, it really follows the sort of mood that this video follows
2:01 actually this happens. Once I purchased an item on eBay; the item was in Chicago, and I have lived in Indianapolis. The item left from Chicago, and followed a route to Iowa, Missouri, back to Illinois and then Indiana. It took 6 days to receive the package.
I’ve been waiting so long for a new video! Thanks bro
Finally a new video, been waiting for a long time 👍
Yaaaaay!!! You're back!! Can't wait for more :)
YES! Great to see you're making new videos!
You uploaded it with the title Nigeria 1, why u gotta give it away 😂😂
Woah! Hey BTW!! (530) is a California area code! Specifically an area code for around where I live in Northern California! My phone number is a (530) number and so is everyone around me!
Jippy! Looking forward to the next series. Best regards from Germany!
Ben, shipping never makes sense. I live in N.W. Florida, near Destin. I bought an item online from Homestead,FL. The item went to Atlanta, GA then Pensacola and finally to me.
Husband bought lego pieces from a guy in TX. It went to Nashville TN over to Atlanta, down to Jacksonville, then over to Defuniak Springs and the FedEx truck apparently drove 50 minutes south to us. There is a FedEx hub 25 minutes closer.
It never makes sense 🤪🤦♀️
Yes a new video! So excited to see how this ends!
It goes to show you the old adage: If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
I had and still have the same scam happen each time that I sell something on craiglist. They sent an extra $2500. I told them that I had cashed it, sent a pic of a huge stack of money with dudes name on it. Told him that I wouldn't pay the movers unless they showed up in person. He was pissed. Started threatening me. I lead him on or a week. It was awesome.
Wait...so they wanted you to transfer the "movers fee" before they ever even showed up? I. Really curious how this goes...I've had it attempted to me several times on craigslist but I never gave them my address and just asked a bunch of questions, pissing them off.
@@turtlepowersf so the scam goes like this. You sell something, they contact you, they say that they want the item and will buy it with money order and ask if that's okay. I say yeah because I know it's a scam. Then they proceed to tell you, this is all in text messages btw, that they are in the process of moving and the moving company will pick it up. I say okay. Then they say that they will include an extra amount of $ for me to pay the movers. I assume I will be paying the movers when they come pick up the item because that is how we do business in the USA. I agree. They also say that they will include an extra $50 or some other random amount for my time with dealing with the movers. I agree.
They then send a fake cashier's check for some random amount over night to me. This has got to cost some one $10 or more bucks. I recieve the fake cashier's check/ money order and tell the scammer that I deposited the money and want the movers to pick up the item. This is when they tell me that I need to send the money to some random person via western union. This random person is said to be the mover. I tell them that I will pay the mover in person when they show. Meanwhile the scammer will always say things like he is trustworthy and ex military. As if being ex military means that a person is trustworthy.
I will tell them that I am ex military and that I am keeping the cash. Then they threaten you with things that they think that Americans are afraid of. I had one scammer tell me that he was sending his niggas over. I laughed
@@travisk5589 wow, geez. Yeah part I was missing was when they'd ask you to send the money to the movers beforehand. Yeah that's nuts, not how we do business here.
HEY THAT HAPPENED TO ME!! I tried selling my bass guitar and someone from Texas was doing the same thing as this guy! I tried to sell it on craigslist and the person from Texas was like "I can send you $1800. Deduct $200 for how much the bass will cost, go to the bank and deposit the rest of the money to my account." The check was completely fake. Computer-like paper check. Faked named and address. So I ended up saying "Oh I am selling my bass to my next door neighbor. He is a police officer and he wants to buy the guitar for his son's birthday." the scammer said "OH NO we can work it out please! Take $200 and put the rest into your checking account then take it out and put it in my bank account".
This is a classic scam. Where they send you the check, in this case for 1'100$ dollars. The bank will accept the check and 1'100 will be in you account. The bank will notice after around 2 weeks that the check is fake, and will remove 1'100 from your account. This is when you have already pain the "movers" 800$. Meaning that the scammer will get away with 800$
Oh yeah, another classic scam I've seen time and time again.
Here is how the scam works: you deposit the check, it clears, they take your couch and your "movers" money. Then days later the bank realizes the check is a fraud and you are responsible for the money.
@@EpicATrain everyone keeps saying that nobody actually comes to your house to pick up the item/money. I dont see how the scam works otherwise, tho.
First. I love you man. So entertaining.
Cronin nope 9th
I_Am_Toxic ah damn Ive made it before. Unlucky.
Earlier this year I ordered a DVD of Mel Gibson's Payback (because all you can find on sub/online is that remade trash) I watched tracking as it travelled from Georgia to Iowa to California, back to Iowa then to me in Florida... I told wife that someone had opened it, saw it was Payback (a movie erased from history as if by INGSOC) and shipped it around to all their buddies.. I imagined them all watching it in their breakroom and repackaging it to send elsewhere... it finally arrived in good condition.
Great story. Keep us in the loop.
That's a well known scam. The cheque will turn out to be counterfit or a legitimate cheque that has been modified in some way (account number changed, amount changed, payee changed, etc). Bonus points if it's a third party cheque. This type of thing is actually one of the reasons most banks put a week or two (or longer) hold on cheque deposits (and, of course, to catch NSF cheques). Odds are good it won't even be drawn on any bank account owned by any of the scammers. (It's likely to be someone else they scammed into giving them a cheque.)
Someone tried pulling this one on me, once, when I was renting out a room. It didn't pass the smell test so I just refused. They went away, probably to try scamming the next person on their list.
Mine was an RV on Craigs list. Soon as they said ebay would deliver it. Hard Pass.
Makes it rough for people like me writting actual checks
I've used USPS a lot for time sensitive parcels, and anytime a tracking number is generated, the origin facility is *always* listed because that is where it enters the system as paid postage. sure, scans often get missed in transit, but the origin facility will always be in the tracking history as soon as the shipping label is created, before it even goes on a vehicle for shipment, so that's a definitely red flag and a lie - it couldn't have had postage paid in Texas. there's no way an envelope can be mailed from Texas with registered tracking and say it is being shipped from California - there is always an entry for the physical acceptance of the parcel into the system, even if that's the only entry... I've had packages end up in the wrong state, or go 3000 miles across the country from its origin post office to my door and only ever get scanned the once the whole way, but the origin facility is basically the single aspect of tracking that *can't* be screwed up, because the very act of creating the tracking number happens in the origin zip code, it's literally the first piece of information tracked besides the destination address. 99% certain, sure as I can be without actually having worked for them. just for the benefit of others watching, regarding sketchy mail claims.
Finally you're back.
Yes! A new video, can I please get a heart?
I know it wasn’t the case here, but he’s right that things get sent out of the way to different facilities. If I want to mail something from Kentucky to Idaho, instead of getting a whole plane to take just a few packages, they’ll send it to a much larger state like New Jersey and then send it to Idaho.
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I was talking to a scammer online before for 5 weeks. I was able to convince him I owned an electronics store and I was gonna ship him 20k worth of items to him. I also pretended to be an employee and I was on to his scam and I was gonna steal the items and tell the owner that they were shipped. The scammer ratted on the employee and told me to stop him and do the shipment myself. I also convinced the scammer I fired him and he tried to rob me and I was in the hospital for 2 weeks.
It was a very fun.
Just keep those assholes busy
I got this exact scam once! I deposited the check and told them I'd only pay them once it cleared.. needles to say, it never cleared. I did however continue to communicate with them and waste as much of their time as I possibly could. It was all I could do.
This is actually such a classic scam technique, I'm surprised you're going with it though.
This is a common scam. Someone out of state (or province) pays by cheque with extra for movers. The victim recieved the cheque and deposits it. The victim sees the additional funds in their account and send money to the movers. The movers are a front by the scammers and take the money. Meanwhile, the cheque bounces and the victim is scammed.
Yo pleasant green! I live in Utah and I almost got scammed from my riding lawnmower. But I'm smart because of you and said NO SCAMMER
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This is a very common tactic. Have had this tried to me once. The check comes but it would bounce if you cashed it. So you are out the total amount of the check from your personal account
Right, but when you cash a fraudulent check, you still have the cash. How would the $800 change hands from you to the scammer?
I live in Ohio and I bought something online where the seller was also in Ohio, I thought, perfect, all they have to do is go from his local post office to my local post office...
Well instead they decided to send the package all the way to Illinois then back to Ohio. Took 2 weeks to get the item.
I was pissed!
So yes, the post office is garbo and a joke.
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2:24 it actually depends on the company it does that to mail it out *in* time its complicated but that's how it works for some companies
Classic scam! They ask you to sent the $800 before the check clears. The check is obviously fake and it will bounce. There is no mover, he doesn't care about the couch, he doesn't even remember what he is buying, he call it an "item". I bet he doesn't even need your address...
Sometimes postage actually does work out like that though, it’s silly but if works for them as they have large hubs, etc
Woah!...530 is my area code!!! Hits wayy toooo close to home!!!!!! Davis CA here!!!!!
I wish people would stop saying the USPS is broke, they are the only organization on Earth thats required to prefund all future retiree benefits. So they're paying approximately $6 BILLION in addition to all current benefits and operating expenses. The USPS is profitable and a valuable American institution, slandering them based on untruths is unnecessary.
I live in Alaska and I've seen a package leave California, go to Texas, Then Tennessee, then back to California then 3 cities in Washington, then Alaska.
In fact a lot of packages come from Asia and I am thinking, "Anchorage Alaska is a Major hub, yet I pay huge fees for packages that actually land here via plane then fly to California to do this....wth."
Most the time I make orders I see packages go in every wrong direction until they get here.
I shipped an item from Brooklyn NY going into Manhattan NY. It took USPS 2weeks to ship it there and it was shipped to NJ first before coming back to NY.
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KSL is notorious for scammers, everyone I know who tries to purchase or sell something on there has had some sort of scam experience.
Its a classic, they send u a fake cheque for more than you asked for. Then they ask you to send that extra amount to a third party which is most likely also them ( this case movers) and you send them money out of your account and then it turns out the cheque has bounced.
Obviously a scam from the get-go: scammers always ask if your "item" is still available, because they're sending the same message to many people. Anybody who actually wants to buy your couch will call it a couch.
WOW this is an amazing story and I watched 1 through 8
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This is a common craigs list scam. The check will bounce and the "movers" run away with your shit before you see the check is no good.
I received a similar message, he wanted to pay me 800.00 more than I was asking for the TV, and he would have a moving truck arriving, he would send a check. funny how same type of story.
The idea of moving the package the "wrong" direction at first is entirely plausible. Couriers move the packages through sorting centers.
Dude I live in Kentucky and I’ve ordered things from Amazon that get shipped from Tennessee then go to Michigan then come to Kentucky. Yes this is why the postal service loses money.
Can’t wait till the next one
The excitement begins to rise but, you’re in the know, right?
What is going to happen next if you continue the transactions are: you give the movers(guy buying it and his friends) the check after you deposit 300 dollars, they canceled the check, the bank claim 300 from you and the guy buying gets his couch played by you
this is happened to me so many times I've lost count and the worst part about it is I suffer from bipolar agoraphobia and I'm on disability and yeah this really sucks I had some guy try to pull this s*** with me the other day and I had enough
Man KSL classifieds has so many scammers. Funny seeing it here though.
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there's at last 1000 videos on youtube about this exact scam, it's nothing new Mr. Green
Hey Emmanuel - you watching this?!?
Spoiler alert...
The check is from a legitimate but unaware 3rd party. This happened to me at work. When I received the check, I called the owner of that bank account. They had no idea what I was talking about. I sent them the check and it turns out a scammer got their routing and account info and printed a fake check. Which is why they want you to deposit it into your account and give them the remaining amount.
*On the edge of my seat waiting to see how this turns out!
There was this guy wanting to buy a paintball gun from my friend and he tried to pull a check scam saying he is a marine biologist and can only pay with checks and most of his details didn’t add up and my friend asked him for proof he was a marine biologist and he never texted back. This happened in October of 2019
I had a guy try this with a used motorcycle jacket. I asked him "what kind of bike do you ride?" And he got pissed, telling me he doesn't have time to answer questions, ""Do you want to do business or what?"...after that I just started effing with him and he eventually told me to fuck off.
2:25 Saw in some video about lost packages, the tracking of such a package instead of going north one state it decided to go east to the coast and back to get one state north.
I doubt you’ll see this. But when he said the check went from Texas to California, that actually does happen a lot in delivering, especially low priority shipping. Now I’m not saying he is honest which he’s 100% not.
But when stuff is shipped around it will go to hubs that deliver to certain areas, and sometimes the hub in Texas may not deliver to your area, so they send it to one that will. You see this when your package bounces around. That or the Texas hub may not be making a trip to there until, say 3 weeks later? But then the California hub is conveniently going in 3 days so it’s going to California.
It’s weird but it does happen. This dude is total bs though
I think, they dont want to take the couch, they just want 800$ and then you will never hear of them again^^
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