Selling a strip built sea kayak and a road bike on craigslist, I've recieved about 4 of these

ex. an actual email I recieved:

"Hello, thank you for your respnse, am satisfied with the price and condition of the item and i want you to know that am out of town for an official purpose and i want you to go and withrew t he item from the list and keep it for me, i will ask my client to send you a cashier or certified check,overpayment of $2000which when you recieve it, you will take it to the cash point and have it cashed, then you will deduct your item fund and help send the rest to my mover via western union or moneygram, he is also helping picking up some other item in your area and i want you to know that is after the check cleared that my mover will come for the pick up and am very sure that you will recieve the payment before this week runs out and i want you to know that am a person that you can trust, so i need your full name,valid address and your number so that the payment can be made quickly,pls reply asap."


craigslist also has a page about these scams:


http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html