You may want to reconsider accepting cashier's cheques or ceritified cheques. Forgeries are often used in the Nigerian scam. No reason why someone might try to pull it in a domain deal.
Thanks for your words of caution. I understand this risk and will still offer this means of payment; however, the payment must clear my bank before the domain will be transferred.
Ron,"Clearing" is a deceptive term, since the funds are often only provisional ... that is to say the bank can and will take the funds back, if it turns out the check is bogus, stolen, etc...
One can't be sure a check is "good" until it's final ... for domestic checks, that's 10 business days minimum; many weeks for foreign checks.
Scammers will often send a check that will "clear" just fine knowing that banks will most often clear checks in just a few days despite the fact that it often takes longer than that to truly verify some checks; even if it's 100% real, it could be stolen ... takes time for a bank to determine that ... and thus again, one should wait 10 business days minimum before even thinking such funds are truly theirs.
Ron
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