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I played along with a Nigerian scammer (posing as UK buyer) about 8 years ago with me selling a $4k mountain bike. The deal was that he would overpay me but I would wire some money back to him or some stupid shit like that but I would still get $2k more than my asking. It went as far as he sent a me a $14k cashier's check (fake) "from" a real Connecticut bank via FedEx worldwide... from Nigeria.
I thought it was hilarious that he must have spent about $100 to send this thing from Africa to WA. Two days later I get a translator phone call at 3am and via a telephone translator (just doing her job) he begs me for the money and eventually says he'll fk'ing kill me and my family if I don't send it. It was pretty funny and the translator was trying not to laugh. I wasn't worried, but yeah I called Secret Service at that point. Of course there's not much to do. I can't believe people fall for this stuff.
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