Do NOT do business with this person! Do not sell anything, do not buy anything, do not let them come to your home! Do not cash any checks from them. Do Not wire anything to them! It is a scam! I was selling something online through craigslist They started texting wanting item. They overpayed me saying I was to send the remaining money to mover and they wanted me to wire money through western union. They were in big rush for me to cash check from sun trust. I told them I needed to hold on to check before I cash it. So I did my research and there is no Michael Johnson at Florida Southern College like it said I check. I took to suntrust asked if it was real and under examination it is not! Person got anxious and called me (foreign sounding) and asked if they could come get item. I told them No because they are scammers! He was very demanding on the phone and threatened to cancel check I told him to go ahead because its fake anyways! Do not think if the bank cashes check it is real. It is not there job to really make sure check is legit. It doesn't get found out usually until weeks later and then YOU owe the bank money, Not the scammer. Any overpayment scenario especially involving wiring strangers and third parties should be avoided!
Total scammer! Offer to buy my items without looking.
Ask for address to send check, very polite at first.
Check is fake so if you send the overpayment to him is your lost.
This fool keep texting me about my items and my address. I text back and he send me two checks one on Friday and I didn't respond and he send another check on Monday. Checks came from two different company that are in Chicago but banks are different, one from Chicago and one from New York. The checks was four time the cost of what I'm selling. Cashier check was poorly printed, all black and white with no water mark. I know the check was fake by looking at it and he ask me to deposit it and give the remaining amount to the mover. He said his name was Barry and the printed signature was Michael Johnson. I text him back and told him to get a [***] life and call him a scumbag and told him I can print better check than his. I also told him to google his phone number and he never text me back. I think I hurt his feeling hahahahaahah.
Same thing happened to me. He also uses the phone numbers: 925-318-1642, 805-738-9565, and 510-467-0131. He called from another number that was restricted and sounded foreign. Wanted us to send the money for pick up via western union or walmart money gram. Barry is quite the scammer. We did report him to the police and if caught he will be charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and forgery. The company and bank on the check does exist and they are aware of Barry as well and are also looking for him.