I had a friend ( a very dumb friend) scammed with something similar on Craigslist when he tried to sell a guitar. The scam is that someone sends you a message that they want to buy your item, then they send you a check for $2000 and claim that it was a mistake. They instruct you to cash the check for $2000 and send back the difference and the item you were selling. My friend almost got arrested at the bank for trying to cash the check. My friend also believes in Bigfoot, UFO's, chem trails and voted for trump so pretty easy to see why he got scammed.

Don't be too harsh on your friend, I've got scammed by telephone by someone who was claiming she was from microsoft, before I realized it was a scam, they got into my computer and locked it. I have always said this would never happen to me, but it did. I switch down my computer, but the damage was already done, and the only solution was to erase my harddrive and reinstall windows, I lost a couple of months work inspite of having a backup. My IQ is more than average but i'm a little too trustfull from time to time. I was called several times after that occasion with the same nonsense, but I never trapped again. I had a call with microsoft about this, but they said they would never contact me like this. It was a hard lesson, I always have a good virusscanner, a firewall, I always throw away nigerian emails but I never expected something like this. So be warned.

best regards,

Bopper

BTW . I would never have voted for Trump.

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