[Jukebox-list] !!!! POSSIBLE ONGOING CRAIGSLIST SCAM !!!!

[Bob Ellingson]

At 11:05 AM 3/20/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>
>I recently responded to a post on Craigslist offering
>a Wurlitzer 1500 in Delaware for $1000.00. I asked if
>the machine was still available, and if so, when could
>I could come to look at it. Delaware is close to
>Baltimore, so I thought I'd take a ride. Besides, the
>photographs of the machine looked pretty good. I was
>pretty sure I'd bring it home.
>
>Later that day, here is the email I received from
>mwbbr at yahoo.com:
>
>
>Hi,
>Thank you for your email. I still have it for sale.
>Right now i am gone in my honeymoon in Hawaii but i
>hope that`s not going to be a problem because i can
>still handle the transaction. When i left in my
>honeymoon, i left the item along with several other
>items in the custody of The Online Outpost because i
>wanted to sell them on eBay when i return, but
>something came up back home, something wrong with my
>mom and i decided to sell this one before i get back
>but not on ebay because i need to sell it faster. So
>if you are still interested let me know because i can
>make the transaction immediately. Just let me know and
>i will explain 
>all the details of the transaction...
>Thanks

Tell him that you have a friend that owed you some money,
and that you were paid with a cashier's check for $8000.
You want to use that to pay for the jukebox, and the fellow
can just wire back the difference to you with Western Union
at the same time he sends the juke.

--Bob
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Bob Ellingson					bobe at halted.com
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