My wife sells Scentsy products. Scentsy sells wickless candles with many different fragrances to choose from.
A week or so ago she got an email from Mary Stone saying she wanted to place an order. No problem. Mary emails a list of the items she wants to order and it comes out to $530 with tax and shipping, a very nice size order for my wife. So Mary is informed of the order total. Mary says she has to have a check issued by her bank as she does not have a credit card (and evidently not a checking account). Mary further informs my wife that she is deaf and cannot talk on the phone and has a hard time placing these orders.
The next email from Mary says she contacted her bank and had the check drawn up but they made the check out for to much, and the extra was to be used for her daughters upcoming wedding. She asked my wife to cash the check, take out the amount for the scentsy order and send the extra to her daughter ASAP as she needed it for her wedding. A week goes by, and the check finally arrives. $2250.
Mary has stated that she lives in Illinois. Her 'debtor' who issues the check is named "University of Pacific". The check is from the Bank of Stockton in Stockton California. Postmark on both checks is from Minneapolis Minnesota. Yes, I said checks. My wife now has two checks one for $2,350.00 and one for $2,250. The checks both look official enough, but both envelopes are hand written, even the return address is hand written. Very suspicious.
There have been so many craigs list scams that go much like this where they overpay for an item they have never seen and of course the check which looked good to start with ends up bouncing for some reason and the seller is left holding the bag. So my wife is not at all comfortable with this transaction and has said as much in her email communications with Mary.
I thought scam from the beginning ...what do you think?
A week or so ago she got an email from Mary Stone saying she wanted to place an order. No problem. Mary emails a list of the items she wants to order and it comes out to $530 with tax and shipping, a very nice size order for my wife. So Mary is informed of the order total. Mary says she has to have a check issued by her bank as she does not have a credit card (and evidently not a checking account). Mary further informs my wife that she is deaf and cannot talk on the phone and has a hard time placing these orders.
The next email from Mary says she contacted her bank and had the check drawn up but they made the check out for to much, and the extra was to be used for her daughters upcoming wedding. She asked my wife to cash the check, take out the amount for the scentsy order and send the extra to her daughter ASAP as she needed it for her wedding. A week goes by, and the check finally arrives. $2250.
Mary has stated that she lives in Illinois. Her 'debtor' who issues the check is named "University of Pacific". The check is from the Bank of Stockton in Stockton California. Postmark on both checks is from Minneapolis Minnesota. Yes, I said checks. My wife now has two checks one for $2,350.00 and one for $2,250. The checks both look official enough, but both envelopes are hand written, even the return address is hand written. Very suspicious.
There have been so many craigs list scams that go much like this where they overpay for an item they have never seen and of course the check which looked good to start with ends up bouncing for some reason and the seller is left holding the bag. So my wife is not at all comfortable with this transaction and has said as much in her email communications with Mary.
I thought scam from the beginning ...what do you think?
. 'mary' has gotta be a scammer.
