NIA HARRIS - NIA COLEMAN - CRAIGSLIST Ellis Robert Check Fraud! Check Fraud! Check Fraud! Summervill, South Carolina

    Being in need of some money and a working vehicle, I posted my subaru on Craigslist and recieved a response from a woman identifying herself as Nia Coleman who claimed to be interested in purchasing it as a gift for her cousin. At first, she suggested that she would be in the area in the next couple days, then mysteriously called off, saying her business meeting had been postponed and asking if she could still buy the car sight unseen for the asking price, and giving a phone number to reach her at with the stipulation that she was "speech impaired". She then sent a citibank check for more than the amount agreed upon, which I deposited in my check acccount, and asked that I send the extra on to her "shipper", one Ellis Robert. Unfortuanately, I was gullible enough to do so. After that, I heard nothing from her for a week, followed by an email trying to back out of the deal and asking that I send all but $100 of her money back, again to the shipper. This seemed fishy, so I sent her an email questioning it and waited a day. Then, this morning, I recieved a letter from my bank saying that my account was overdrawn for the amount that I had sent to this alleged "shipper" because the check had been returned as counterfeit. I'm now not only overdrawn in my account by over $1000 that I never had in the first place, but also out the $200 I had just deposited to cover upcoming bills.