Lymax Shipping Agent

We placed our food cart for sale on craigslist and received an immediate response from papa_joke7. We had hesitation from the name alone but only thought it was just a quirky name. After going back in forth by e-mail correspondance we received a check for more than double the asking price we set to sell our cart. The cashiers check was deposited into our account and we explained to him that we wanted to wait until the check cleared. This guy became very anxious and tried rushing us to wire transfer the difference for shipping. I held ground and told him that by no means, any transactions would take place while the check was awaiting clearance from the bank. He seemed to agree and waited 5 days. The fifth day is today as I am writing this e-mail but what happened earlier today was kind of ironic.

Before work today I checked my account to see if the money was still available. The money posted and seemed to be cleared but I somehow felt that the whole situation was still weird. When I went to work I had a chance to read our local newspaper. When I got to the business section there was an article with this headline- "No Protection by banks for check scams". As I read on I discovered that the people who were written about in the article had almost the same exact situation I was going through. All the signs and more popped in my head: selling an item over the internet, correspondance through e-mail only (even when he said he would personally call me), a check with twice as much as I asked for, asking me to wire the difference and he included a shippers name ( Lymax Shipping Agent) with an e-mail (lymax_shipper@hellokitty.com). After many e-mails asking for his full name, address and phone (which he ignored) I did not wire any money today.

Im still waiting for the details inorder for the mover to carry out the services...

Your swift reply is needed.

Regards

I suspect that this is his last e-mail to me because I did not write back. Needless to say I did not lose any money just wasted time.The local people who are truely interested in our hot dog cart will be hearing from us shortly. If I ever sell anything it will only be face to face for now on. I will also be checking the web every so often to see if he is trying to use my name or my company name for any reason.

Also, this guy speaks in very broken english, here is a previous e-mail he sent to me:

Hi James...

I hope you the check cleared your bank now and i still waiting for the western union money transfer information inorder for the shipper to come over for the pick-up and carry out other services and you should also get back to me with the pick-up location and the actual time you will be at the address to sign on the shipping and pick-up documents before the shipper can make the pick-up done and i was told by the manager of the company that they will be moving this evening to carry out the service.

HERE IS THE INFORMATION TO TRANSFER NTHE MONEY TO SO THERE WILL NOT BE ANY MISTAKE....

Receiver's Name : John Mogan
Address         : 15 Brookdene Rd
                : enough.

And make sure you get back to me with all this necessary details immediately the transfer done .

Full sender's name .....
Total amount sent......
10 Digit Money transfer code.....
Text Question ....................
Answer ....................

Kindly make things done today and i thank you so much for the stress and efforts making since the beggining of this lovely transaction.

Hope im informative enough on how to work things out so your swift response to this will be highly appreciated......
Regards