It was fun for a while but I have grown weary of this game. So, I sent the following::
Patrick,
Please allow me to share some information a fellow pilot passed on to me:
Author wrote:
> This is posted on the AOPA website:
> AOPA members recently have been alerting the Pilot Information Center to the latest aircraft buying scam. In a typical scenario, the "buyer" offers above asking price for the aircraft and asks the seller to forward the difference to a third party. The buyer pays with a bogus cashier's check from a foreign (or even domestic) bank, and the seller deposits the check and forwards the excess money. Here's the catch. It can take two to three weeks before a bank determines that the cashier's check is fraudulent. If the seller has forwarded money to another party before the check clears, he could be responsible for coming up with that money. To be safer, a seller may want to establish a bank account specifically for receiving a wire transfer of the buyer's funds, suggests Rodney Martz, AOPA senior technical specialist, adding that "the solution is for any seller to have his banker check out any offered funds or checks." For questions about this or other scams you may have seen, contact AOPA's Pilot Information Center at 800/USA-AOPA.
I like this advice. Are you acceptable to the terms explained?
Best Regards,
Bill
I suspect that I will no longer be hearing from Patrick!
