Cd'A man victim of shipping scam
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 13 years, 5 months AGO
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August 16, 2011 9:00 PM
COEUR d'ALENE - A Coeur d'Alene man was scammed while selling his gaming computer on website Craigslist.
He was seeking $900 for the computer and a purchaser sent him a cashier check for $2,100.
The victim was told to use nearly all the difference to pay the purchaser's "shipper," according to a police report.
The man deposited the cashier check into his account. He then withdrew cash from his ATM and met the shipper along U.S. 95 near Silverwood, giving him $1,150.
The purchaser did, however, tell the victim to keep $50 for his trouble.
The shipper never picked up the computer.
The cashier check turned out to be a fake.
The victim said the "shipper" was a Hispanic man, in his 30s, who was driving a black, extended-cab pickup truck.
