Hi, a guy in broken english, supposedly from Denmark, told me he wanted to buy my Litespeed Mt. Bike and that all I had to do was to receive a check for over $6000 more than I was asking. All I had do was to wire the balance of the check to his "shipping agent". At first I wasn't suspicious, but as I traded correspondences I became moreso. He kept referring to my Mt. Bike as an "awesome bike" and that he would overpay me $300 for my efforts. He didn't seem to want to know much about the bike, but was more concerned my my wiring him the balance to his "agent" asap. When I told him that I needed to see and cash his check before I wired him anything, he stopped correspondence. Luckily, I found out that this check would be a forgery even if I did get. Sounded too good to be true and it was.

..but rather just your run-of-the-mill Nigerian scammer. There must be hundreds of them, sitting in every internet cafe in Lagos, scouring every classified posted online across the world. Happens thousands of times each day.

I had a friend who was selling a used saddle, and one of these guys contacted him. $25 saddle, wanted to send him a cheque (note spelling...) for $6k, and would pay him $250 for his trouble. Yeah, right-like they really need $25 used saddles over there. Sheesh.