Back story:
Placed a Wanted Ad for a seatpost:
“Matt” contacted me saying he had one. After a few emails we agreed a price, he said he couldn’t accept paypal, but could do a transfer. I said I wasn’t comfortable with this and he offered to send a pic of his DL along with his address. He also offered to do 50% now, 50% on delivery, something others have done on STW in the past.
I did a bit of due diligence, found his FB, Twitter, MSE accounts and checked his bank account details against the register..all seemed fine, I also found something else for sale on another forum, but nothing untoward and so agreed and paid.
That was Thursday…