This is nothing new, I've been buying and selling on Ebay for about 13yrs now, and you run across all kinds of things, about 4 yrs ago, I kept a buyer on the hook, while the FBI tracked him down, he even sent me the bank ck, on a California bank, looked real, was real, except it was on a persons account who wasn't aware what was going on. It took about 4 months, and I kept him hooked, then one day I got a call, from the FBI, thanking me, and telling me the outcome of the arrest, he is now doing time at RFD 2, and the amount on the ck was 20K, which made the time he'll do a lot longer. You can't be greedy, or gullible, you have to think, and not be trusting of someone you don't know, especially when it comes to money, I had enough experience with this sort of thing while I was in DC, in the Military, in a CIC group. Just remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it most likely isn't! Bob