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L gin <ladurgin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yup=--I listen to Clark Howard--who is a consumer advocate--he talkes 
> about these all the time. Skip the fishy ones--too big a gamble. People who 
> are reading ridecamp ads. should be more "savvy" than the average horse 
> person, don't you think?
> BTW it is very easy now for overseas Scam artists to fake a certified 
> check. He says don't take them anymore , unless you get it from someone you 
> know at a bank you know. They are so good at forging them and MO, Checks 
> etc. That the banks don't even know till it bounces.
> I used to sell printing papers 25 years ago and
>  they then said the 
> copiers were getiing good enough to print money, and that was before the 
> laser printers and such.
> There are whole countries who now are "havens" for internet scam 
> artists. Nigeria is a biggie, he said they have literal "cafes" where this 
> is common. Also some former Eastern block and Russia have set up internet 
> scams for thier new "capitalist" businesses.
>
> I'd suggest waiting till a regular check clears or maybe a western union 
> sire transfer (NOT to your account) maybe Paypal --(even they have some 
> problems)
> What ever you do --don't give them your bank account numbers or routing 
> numbers.
>
> (He says lock your check book up in a vault- 85% of identity theft is thru 
> stolen checks --- I who used to use checks for eveything--but it they get 
> your routing numbers and signature and most the time no one asks for 
> id....you are cooked..loss of credit ability, possibly jail on mistaken 
> charges, he has some
>  stories on his website that are really bad. These 
> days people steal checks out of mailboxes, and now clerks in stores ..... He 
> suggest cash or credit card.......
> Good luck.It is getting easier to buy things and really hard to sell 
> them.
>
>
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