404-981-1769

Do not do anything they say, like cash a check, send money etc. It's a scammer's number.

I received a certified check from this person and email instructions about cashing the check and then sending the money by western union to someone in california. I did not cash the check, the entire thing was suspicious and gave me a bad feeling. I contacted my local police.

This person aka "Micheal Carter" sent me a check responding to a craigslist ad. Typical advanced fee fraud, the scammer sent me a check for $2k and asked me to send the difference to the "mover". Spider-sense prevented me from sending the number.

Michael Carter
michealcarter0@gmail.com
number he texted me from 951-289-0179
number he asked me to "text' the mover at..."you can only text her on this number" 404-981-1769

This is scam, i getting messages from that number too, i am really tired of that

I listed a stroller on Craigslist and received this text from them:
"I am a set designer. The stroller is to be used for the auditioning and am ok with the price. Am currently our of town ON SET but i will be sending you money orders for the payment and also for my private carrier whom wll be coming for the pickup on my behalf. As soon as you get the payment cashed, you will deduct your payment and keep the remaining funds for my carrier when they come over for the pickup. What do you say?"

I said "absolutely not"

I just go this same exact message word for word!! Wow, are people really this stupid!!

I got that same message in respond to my post on Craigslist... I told them no because it did not sound believe it then I googled the number and imagine that I found all of this scam info about the number... Always do research before agreeing to a sale if its not in person

Thank you for your alert. They tried to contact me about a craigslist ad. I always look up numbers.

Just got same set designer/carrier message. Weird!

Same message i recieved yesterday. Obviously I'm not going to respond but i am curious...how would this scam even pan out? What is it exactly that thy are doing?

I just got the same text word from word everything but I was selling a wedding dress, so gad I look up numbers first

This person contacted me about a Craigslist ad and I always Google the number. I let him know I knew what he was up to. I get sick of low-life people like this trying to take advantage of people. I just replied to get a job!

Thanks for the info.  Just got a text from them as well.  Told them NO! SCAM NO!

I received a response also from this person I think.  He claimed to want to buy my wedding dress.  He was a set designer and needed it for the audition.  He was relocating his office.  The dress was only 150 but he send a check for 1,980 and told me to keep an extra $25 for my trouble cause he was asking me to go cash it at my bank and send the remaining funds via money gram so I could pay the courier that was moving the dress and several other items like furniture.  He claimed to be named Gary and his number was 404-981-1769.  But had the money gram sent to Mellissa Szwed in Coleman FL.  I assumed it was a fraud when I received the unusually high check and took it to regions bank.  The check that was sent to me was a regions bank cashiers check.  It was a fraud just like I suspected.   I tried to give them a phone number and the information that was given to me via text but the bank said they are not allowed to have that info.

Ya well unfortunately in a tight spot my wife and i fell victim to the secret shopper scam. we have local friends that have done stuff similar to this but never for this amount of money, come to find out after the bank has seized my funds that i had already had in my account before cashing the check, the check is a counterfit check. The bank is blamming me for not knowing that status of the check when it was deposited. My argument is how in the hell is it my fault that you cashed a counter fit check. The check came from TD bank for the amount of 1980. I have been on the phone with two federal agents, police departments from where it was shipped, to where it was picked up. So far nothing. All because we were trying to get caught up on bills. 4049811769 is the google number that keeps calling and texting.

Wow, I smelled something, and Google it, and found just that. Craigslist ad stating that I would cash a cashiers check for 1980.00 take 200 as payment and send the remaining funds to another person, western union in two separate transactions. Then report back detailed information on all transactions.

Oh, I have the check, what should I do with it ??? Call the police, throw it away ???

Please advise