Date:         Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:46:27 -0500
Reply-To:     The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
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From:         The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
Subject:      Re: QUESTION ABOUT AUTO BROKER
Comments: cc: Pat Callaghan <patcal096@COMCAST.NET>
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>  As you may well know, I am selling my 87 Westy.  I got a
> email from a guy named Tony Blewett.  I believe he is a auto
> broker.  He says he is ready to send me a cashiers check for
> the price of the van & then arrange shipping.  I find it hard
> to believe that he is going to buy it site unseen. Has
> anybody heard of this guy?  Is a cashiers check a safe way to
> accept payment?


It's a common scam. If it follows the usual pattern, he will proceed to
tell you that the check he is sending will be for an amount above the
asking price. You will be asked to wire him the difference after
depositing his counterfeit cashier's check. By the time your bank learns
that the check was fake, and takes the funds back out of your account,
he will be long gone with the money that you wired to him.

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  www.busdepot.com
  (215)  234-VWVW

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