This person is a scammer. The original message was sent Oct 13,2014: "I will be paying you by money order..I will be adding an extra fifty dollars so you can keep it in my favor.I will like you to send me  your full name and address so i can have my assistant mail the payment to you..I will let you know how I intend to go about the pick-up so I would like you to take the posting off today and consider it sold to me.Expecting to hear from you soon. Please let me know if you accept payment, reply me with your full name and address so i can proceed with the payment. I have given my assistant the go ahead to mail payment to you.You should receive payment within the coming week( 3-5days time).Once payment is received we can proceed with the pickup.Thanks for your understanding and patience. Thanks."  The next day I received this: "Hi, I urgently have to bring something to your notice. I just found out that my Assistant overpaid you. The payment meant for another transaction was made out in your name and sent to you. However I want to believe I wont have a problem with you on this. once you receive  the payment, Please proceed to the bank and cash the payment, deduct your money and send back the balance to me via western union.  So I can proceed with arrangement for pick-up. Once more, I hope I can fully trust you with this? I will await your response on this so my mind can be at rest. Thanks"  The check was for WAY more than needed so we told our bank the situation so they would investigate. It came back as fraudulent. The person that I text with wanted me to wire money via money gram to:
NAME OF RECEIVER: Deborah J Elliot
CITY: wilson place
STATE: Missouri
ZIP CODE:64024
As a note: this phone number is listed in New York, the check he sent was from California, the envelope he mailed it in was from Chicago, IL, and the pickup was supposed to be in Missouri. This person has obviously been doing this a long time. I hope he is caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

He has not been caught. I posted a TV for 200 dollars and he gave the same message as the last victim. He didn't get me...I said I only accepted cash...watch out for this number he is a very dangerous person.

Just recieved this text from 212-202-1077
" I will be paying you by money order..I will be adding an extra fifty dollars so you can keep it in my favor.I will like you to send me your full name and address so i can have my assistant mail the payment to you..I will let you know how I intend to go about the pick-up so I would like you to take the posting off today and consider it sold to me.Expecting to hear from you soon."
Ha. Sounds like a scammer. Don't fall for it

Just received this same message about a console I posted on Craigslist. scammer!!!!!!

I got the same thing. Have taken it to the bank's security department so they can investigate further. I was selling an item for $150 and got a "check" for over $1,700 to deposit and transmit the remainder back. Good thing I still have decent contacts in bank fraud to send what I have to them :)