I've got a kayak for sale locally. As luck would have it, it sold almost immediately to a nice young man who lives elsewhere. Odd though... he wants to send me a check for more than I am asking for the boat, and for me to wire the difference back to him. ::)
So.... how do I best make life a bit painful for this person? I'd sort of like to get a check as a trophy of sorts. Or is it dangerous to interact at all?
Maybe send them the phone number and address of the local police station to mail their check to?
It would be fun to play with them, but you'd be giving up personal info, MTL. I like the idea of sending it to the police. How about asking the local gendarmes? Out of state buyer... FBI?? ???
Tell him to Western Union the money to you and you'll do the same with the 'change'.
Here is my favorite story involving play with scammers. This is extremely long and well developed but actually scammed the scammer. Take a few minutes to read through.
http://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm (http://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm)