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Or ask for a MO or personal check & make them wait 10 days for it to clear FULLY.
With a money order scam, they send a fake MO, you cash it at your bank & deposit the money or take it as cash. The bank sends the money order along with all of the cancelled checks etc. to their HQ to be validated & sorted. THIS is where it will be caught if it's a fake, usually not at the branch you cashed it at, and it will be several days to a week after you've received the money.
At this point, you're liable to the bank for the money they gave you - they'll either take it out of your account, or bill you for it.
SO, if you give it a week to 10 days, you can be 99.99% sure it's legit (I'd never say 100%, 'cuz you always hear about that one time...)
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