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Just wondering

I've got three ads running at the moment and all three of them have attracted numerous seemingly unrelated inquiries from non members.This is new for me and I'm wondering if others are having the same experience.
One of these guys agreed to pay $500 for my tuner and said he would have his secretary send the check. A while later after the check had had enough time to arrive from the moon, I contacted him to say I hadn't received the check. He wrote back to say that his secretary had accidentally sent $5000 instead and would I send the other $4500 to his friend in the UK by Western Union wire transfer. Since this smelled really bad I dropped the matter. Does anyone else suspect this guy of scamming? It's been weeks now and no check has ever arrived.
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It's a scam for sure!

I was listening to NPR last week & there was a report exactly like this wherein the fellow called in from Nigeria & said that he had mistakenly sent several thousand $ for an item & if the seller would be kind enough to send the balance to a friend elsewhere in the world!

You did the correct thing & dropped the matter 'cuz you could have been burned badly! Report it to your local authorities - FBI, police, etc. esp. if you have the fellows contact info.
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