NSC Classified Ads - SCAM WARNING - Sellers Beware!

Several NSC members have already been the target of the following Cashier's Cheque SCAM (or some variants):

[Adapted from www.shianet.org/pages/faq/scams.shtm]

A scammer (often from a foreign country, using poor grammar) offers to buy your boat for a price higher than your asking price, using a cashier's check.

He says to deposit the check and wait for it to clear before releasing the boat and sending him the money in excess of your asking price.

Your bank OK's the check, you send the excess amount to the scammer who arranges to have your boat picked up or delivered to some foreign client. Then after a week or so the bank informs you that the check was counterfeit and that your account is frozen until you reimburse the bank for the full amount of the cashier cheque. You thus end up without a boat, and with a debt exceeding by several thousand dollars the value of your boat!

Internet users should use common sense and not get "blinded" by the large amounts of money being offered. Remember: if sounds too good to be true, it probably is.