Recently
there have been some feedback of sellers
being contacted by a buyer from outside
the US offering to buy the item listed.
The scam works like this. The person
offering to buy wants to give the seller
a cashiers check well above the asking
amount. They then ask if you will send
the item & the difference in money
to someone either in the U.S. or back
overseas. This is a scam! The Cashiers
Check is a fake. The bank can take up
to 3 weeks before notifying you of this
allowing the scam artist to get away
with both the item and the difference
in money that you sent to them. Best
coarse of action is to either not accept
the Cashiers Check, or give time to
allow your bank to process & verify
it before sending any money or items
to the buyer. As always, please practice
smart business transactions.
Money
Orders
Since
you were alerted about the Cashiers
Check scam, they have now changed tactics
to offering fake Money Orders. The scam
works like this. The person offering
to buy wants to give the seller a money
order well above the asking amount.
They then ask if you will send the item
& the difference in money to someone
either in the U.S. or back overseas.
This is a scam! The Money Order is a
fake. Best coarse of action is to either
not accept the Money Order, or give
time to allow your bank to process &
verify it before sending any money or
items to the buyer. When it comes to
something that can be forged, for example
checks, money orders & cashiers
checks. Please verify it is real before
sending items. If it sounds to good
to be true, It is!
Seller's
Scamming Buyer's
OverSea's
& Foreign Sellers
When
you come across a classified ad on GOcounty.com
where either the user has told you or
stated in their ad that they are not
in the United States. Please contact
us with the ad# so that we can remove
it promptly. GOcounty.com is only for
those who live within the US only. The
law cannot protect you when dealing
with foreign sellers outside the US.
In 90% of these cases they are usually
a scam artist anyway's. As always, please
practice smart business transactions.
New
Features to Fight Scams
Restricted
posts to US members only
GOcounty.com
has implemented a Country IP address's lookup and
now prevents new posts by those located outside of
the US. We are sorry that we must do this, but this
was the only option to eliminate fraudulent posts
by foreign users. The law cannot protect US visitors
dealing with foreign sellers.
Restricted
classified email addresses to US visitors only
GOcounty.com
has implemented a Country IP addresses lookup and
now prevents email classified contacts by foreign
visitors. We are sorry that we must do this, but this
was the only option to eliminate fraudulent scams
by foreign visitors. The law cannot protect US sellers
dealing with foreign buyers.
Please
help us to keep all buyers & sellers informed
by reporting any scams you may encounter so that
we may post it here to further combat scammers.
