Craigslist sale offer, scam or not?

[garbhach65]

I have not edited or removed any information from the message.
The message I received reads:

"Hello,

Thanks for getting back to me, The price is okay by me , I won't be coming down to look on it, as I'm so busy for now and I'm presenting it to my Brother In-law.

I will appreciate if you can send me more closer picture but if not there no problem and My mode of payment is Cashier Bank check or Money Order check cos its more safer to me and i have been using that to buy items on Craigslist without any problem. Once you have the check i will wait until the check is clear in your bank before any procedure. In order to do this i need your full name and address and contact # in which you want the check to be mail to and what name.

My shipper will come for the pick up as soon as payment is certified. Also I will be adding an excess to the payment on the check that will be sent to you which you will assist me in sending the the balance to my shipper for their shipping cost. I'm asking you to do this for me cos my schedule for now is very tight. Once again am gonna wait until the check is clear by your bank before any procedure

Regards."


My thoughts:
1. The sender neglecting to state what the item is called (he/she only refers to the item as "it") seems like a dead give-a-way that this is a scam message.
2. The sender's repeated use of "before any procedure" just screams that the sender's first language is not english and the message was quite possibly translated via an online translator as that grammatical error is common in computer based translations.
3. The sender stating that he wants the item shipped and will not be able to preview is the kicker.

BUT, for some reason I'm not 100% certain this guy is a scam, mainly because I cannot imagine what he wishes to scam me out of.


Opinions?

[porter]

That's a common check overpayment scam

"My shipper will come for the pick up as soon as payment is certified. Also I will be adding an excess to the payment on the check that will be sent to you which you will assist me in sending the the balance to my shipper for their shipping cost"

They will send you a counterfeit check using a real person/company's account number for $1500-3000 over the amount you asked for. You deposit it and it clears your bank. You are then asked to send the $1500-3000 to the "shipper" through Western Union. Three weeks later when the cancelled check is sent back to the real payee with their next monthly statement they notice a check they did not write and inform their bank who informs your bank who debits the full amount from your account. You ended up sending $1500-3000 of your own money to the scammer

Craiglist is ONLY for face to face CASH transactions. Period. Anything else is always a scam. Remember YOU are the seller and YOU set the terms of the sale. Never let a buyer tell you how they are paying you and NEVER accept more than the asking price for any reason

Read Craigslist's scam warnings - they cannot be any clearer
http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams

[gustav]

it sounds like a scam i had heard of these b4