I'm amazed that some people on here actually think that there's a chance that it's legit lol. It is 1,000% a scam! The scammer is trying to get $, not a gun.
Scammers only txt or email, they won't talk on phone because they can't speak English well or at all. If you try calling a scammers phone number that he's been texting with its usually a Google voice account.
I have shipped ammo and other gun-related items out of state a couple times and used an electronic payment service and maybe personal check, but I always called and talked with them first. I will not ship to someone without at least talking to them.on the phone. I would never even consider shipping a gun without talking to both the seller and the FFL and making sure that payment was cleared. And I would call the number listed by ATF, not a number provided by a buyer.
I think most criminals are smart enough to not try to use fraud to obtain a firearm in the U.S. as they wouldn't want to deal with the ATF and bank fraud systems etc. Not saying nobody would be dumb enough to try it, just that most wouldn't.
