The scam goes a bit like this.....your advertising your cycle in cycle trader, EBay ...whatever...someone calls from out of state or even outside the USA and tells you he (she) wants the bike (or whatever it is your selling), has to have it, they will be right down, or they will ask for pics of the machine and have you send or email them.....or they will just get your attention saying that they are interested over the phone or email....then they call and tell you they want you to make shipping arrangements and before you ship, to give them the cost of it and where it will be shipped from and they will provide you with a destination.   If you've gone this far you probably think you've sold it and your probably at the dealer that afternoon setting up a purchase of your new ride.....now the rip off comes...they tell you to get the shipping arranged and they send  you what looks like a copy of a verified cashiers check or a Money Order with your name on it, they may even send what appears to be the actual payment drawn on a Bank you may be familiar with or even the USA Postal Service(Money Order) ...they'll  send it to you and it really looks good...so they have you at the shipping people with your bike before you can discover the draft is a forgery.....don't be fooled, I had a guitar amplifier for sale and had this very thing attempted on me, I thought the whole thing seemed a but fishy and  I went to the Post office and had the Postal Money Order checked out and found it to be a forged document....and I was almost ready to ship my amp to an out of the country address....one of the ploys they do is they send you a check for about $2500.00 more than the asking price and your dumbfounded with the extra cash they seem to be throwing around, but they tell you to forward the rest to the shippers to cover that expense, it sort of sounds logical and your really tempted to run with the whole thing,   but....if you do what they ask you to do,..you'll be paying to ship your merchandise to a place where it can't be recovered,  losing it and costing you to do so....I ran this past a few members in my H.O.G. group and they said they too have heard of it and they were sure glad I didn't get bagged...I bring it up also in a non Motorcycle format because Motorcycles are not the only items scammed in this manner, other high priced items have fallen prey to this type of scam and it seems to grow daily which I found out through a bit of a fact finding that this and a couple of other scams are being used to steal merchandise and motorcycles in this country, and the majority of these culprits seem to be using destinations outside the USA so the items can't be recovered...they are lost due to being outside the jurisdiction of any US authorized personel that can act on stolen items in that country, and that should be the tip off...a buyer from Singapore or South America or something to that effect....just be careful who you trust in a sale.

     (while your here, check my eBay store..Gliptone of Arizona,...thanks)