[smittykid]

A number of years ago I had a car for sale on "Carsonline" I was asking $24,000 for the car. I was contacted via email with an offer to buy the car for $30,000 and he would send me a cashiers check for that amount. I was then supposed to Western Union him the difference of $6,000. This guy even told me where my closest Western Union office was. Long story short-I finally received a cashier's check for $30,000 made out to me. I held it up to the light and it looked good right down to the watermarks. It came in a plain white envelope with German postage on it and no return address and no cover letter. I was able to contact the bank the check originally came from. The gal at the bank asked me the check # and the account # on the check. She told me that the check was no good (which I already knew). At one point in time these were legit cashiers checks from this bank. Apparently there was an inside job where someone stole a bunch of blank cashiers checks and must of sold them on the internet. She said that normally the bank would request me to send them the check, but they already had a file full of bogus checks.
I knew this was a scam from the get-go. I just wanted a $30,000 cashiers check made out to me to hang on the wall in my office. I contacted the "buyer" via email and told him I was informed by the bank the check was no good. I ended my email by stating, "Nice try A-hole". Surprise, surprise- I never heard back from him.
This was several years ago and this scam is still going on in one form or another.