It’s a scam. If you send them a check, they will have all the banking information they need, plus your signature, to drain your account. They will also have your address for further misdeeds.
Yep, once they’ve identified a rube, the name gets passed around.
A couple of years ago, I was selling an $1800 item on CL. I would ignore texts that were ‘suspect’. I finally decided to make him (might have been a woman) pay a little something for being a crook. I answered one text, asked him to call me. He said he couldn’t because he was at work. I text back, “please call when you can talk.” He said he would but wanted my address so that they could “get the check out to me immediately” with next day delivery.
I told my wife to not bank the check, cuz it’s a scam. The check arrived, I had my wife call the bank on the check and verify it. It’s not, so she tears it up and throws it in the trash. The following day I get a text asking me if I received the check. I said no (wasn’t really lying because I never did see it, lol). Asked him to call me again, but got another excuse as to why he couldn’t. The crook said he would contact me again the next day. When he did, I told him I was fairly certain that my wife mistook it for junk mail and threw it away.
He said no problem, he would send another immediately. Well, it arrived, and I let it sit for a day. He texted me asking if it had arrived. I told him that I was on the road on would be home the next day (still not lying. I’m an OTR trucker). Next day is Saturday. I get a text asking if the check arrived. I wait until after noon, tell him I have the check, but the bank is closed, and I will have to wait until Monday to bank it. He says ok.
He texts Monday asking why I haven’t banked the check. I told him the truth:
“I called Chase bank” (the bank on the check), “and they told me it was a fraud. Adios crook!”