Rockrivr1
NES Member
In addition to putting my Norinco 1911A1 for sale/trade on this site, I also added it to Armslist to see if I would get any bites there. Overnight I receive a nice email asking if it was still for sale and if so she would like to buy it. I send her (Diana) an email stating yes it's still for sale and we could meet today to do the transfer if she'd like. I get the below response.
Thanks for getting in touch. The price Sounds fair to me and Just so you know I am located in Baltimore Maryland, and I relocated here 2 weeks ago. I relocated for work. I have other stuffs in my old apartment which includes (refrigerator, gun wardrobe, kitchen items, grand piano, garage items, Big tires, baby stuffs, a Ruger SR40c 9mm, and a WW2 M1 carbine which they are moving for me. The moving company FFL will come pick up the weapon and will deliver It all together with the rest of my things so you don't have to ship it. For the payment, I will be mailing you a cashiers check and I will as well add extra $100 to the asking price if you can secure the purchase for me till check arrives and cashed. If this is OK, please get in touch with your name and mailing address to send the cashiers check to. Include your phone # as well so I will be able to contact you for fluent communication. Thanks
This sounded fishy as hell, but just for the hell of it I asked what the name of her FFL was and I would drop the gun off to them. Instead she offers to take care of all the details and just wants my address to send the cashiers check too. Yeah, nope not a chance.
Ended up telling her that if she's legit she needs to do a better job with the info, if she was a scammer that she's terrible at it and should get a new line of work and finished with if this is the AG's office doing a sting, tell Maura I said hi!
Got to love the interwebs...... My money is on scam.