Lafayette Hill Man Gets Strange Check from Russia, Police Say

A Lafayette Hill man will have to wait a bit longer to unload his bike.

According to police, the local man posted his motorcycle — a 1997 Honda PC 800 — for sale in an online motorcycle forum for $3,500. A short time later, the man began receiving correspondence from another man regarding the sale of the Honda.

The owner of the bike then received a check for “$15,000 pounds” from the man on Thursday … the Lafayette man immediately noticed that the check was fraudulent, police said.

The seller provided police with several pages of correspondence from the alleged buyer. 

The “buyer” then began calling the seller at home, requesting that the seller contact the shipping company to finalize shipping arrangements, police said. The seller became suspicious of the arrangements and contacted police.

According to police, the “buyer” was using several IP addresses and a couple appeared to have been coming from a university.