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I was selling a potable generator on the Z-Idaho web site when I was contacted via text by a man who said he wanted to purchase it. He didn't identify himself in the initial texts but later sent me an overnight postal envelope bearing the name of Colin Cumbo of Las Vegas, NV. Inside the envelope was a cashier's check supposedly drawn on Prosperity Bank. Though texts, Mr. Cumbo indicated that the check was payment for the generator, a small "extra' for my time and trouble, and the balance was to be pre-paid to a company called Top Movers to come pick the generator up. I had some questions so I looked up Top Movers and they did look sketchy as to their quality, but had enough apparently real information to seem legit. These days so many businesses are sub standard and so many people seem to accept that that it's tough to tell who's real and who isn't. I even checked out ScamPulse.com and saw that Top Movers had some really bad reviews here, but also a couple of OK ones. Apparently they've been around a while so I thought as long as the check cleared, things would be all right. I brought the check to the bank on Friday afternoon and they said it would clear immeditely. I still waited until Tuesday afternoon just in case. I went back to the bank to withdraw the funds on Tuesday afternoon, explained why I was taking out the funds and the teller assured me the check had cleared. I then went to the Post Office and purchased a postal money order for the movers fees and sent it in an overnight envelope, as instructed, to a Mr. Billy Pierce on Kenway Ave in Deltona, Florida. I thought it was somewhat funny that the check was going to an individual instead of the business, but given how some businesses are run, I thought Top Movers might be a guy working from his apartment contacting the moving contractors who sub for him or something. These days it seems that everybody is doing everything from home, so it's hard to know what's legit any more. Anyway, luckily I kept copies of the fake cashiers' check, the sending and receiving envelopes, the receipts, and everything so I have a trail to prove what happened. When the bank called me the following morning (Wednesday) to let me know the check had bounced, I raced immediately to put a return request on the envelope and I filed a police report. Luckily I had requested a signature for delivery and nobody was present to sign for the envelope so it went back to the post office and should be returned to me today or tomorrow. Whew! Stupid me, I know, but I hope my experience will help other people avoid this and similar scams. I can't say definitively whether Top Movers was actually a part of the scam or just being used by the scammers, but I would find it difficult to believe, given the other reviews found here, that they would know nothing about it and are merely victims themselves. At any rate, based on my experience, I would advise others to avoid Top Movers, and anybody named Colin Cumbo or Billy Pierce if they respond to a sale ad you've placed.

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