His main concern is to get you to say yes to the sell, have you ship the item to a address in Brooklyn with the understanding that either a Bank Cashier Check would be used to pay for the item being shipped COD or that the Buyer would send you a Bank Cashier Check by Federal Express prior to you sending the item being sold. Based on our findings, you would received the counterfeit check the day after the first contact. This type of business is classified as a mail drop. Normally, the business has no knowledge of the scam being operated using his facilities. This is very typical.
Many con artists use mail drops as a means to further their various criminal activities.
To combat this, the Post Office has implemented new regs on them. Also users of such boxes will be required to fill out a form to be filed with the Post Office and will require two forms of identification. The revised rules took effect on April 24, 1999. Just recently, the buyer would send the seller a bank cashier check the next day by Federal Express with a returned prepaid shipping invoice. The items being purchase by this group has been mainly expensive camera equipment.