Thanks for the Grauburger posting. Made me laugh.

My experience was really strange.
I listed a console safe for a Tahoe I had traded off. Was asking around $100
Got a response from Illinois that the buyer would send me the money and a friend would pick it up.
It had been listed about a week without any real action.
I said sure, when his check cleared, his friend could meet me and get it.
He sent the check to my P.O. Box. $1,500
His number had been disconnected, but I got a call from a different number. He said cash the check, keep $200, give the console safe and $1,300 to his friend.
I googled the bank on the check and it was in Virginia. The address and company name on the check was in South Carolina.
No phone number on the check. Googled the company and called - no answer.
I got another call from the buyer from another number (the second number was disconnected) asking if I had cashed the check and could his friend get the console safe and cash.
I said no, I could not accept his check and had sent it back to the originating company. He called a couple more times from a 4th number, which I did not answer.
No further calls.
I did sell the console safe to another buyer within a couple of days.