These type people should be ashamed of themselves.

Now he's using the name Michael Smith

Yes it is a scam. But do have him send you the check in the mail, and overnight if at all possible. That's about $34 he has to pay.

Also got a Craigslist scam from this number.

Yes  This is a SCAM.  Don't get involved.  If you have given them your address, don't worry.  They are spending too much time on Craigs List to cause you any harm.  Their main objective is to create a line of information that will gain your confidence, identify suckers, etc so that they can hit you with a really big SCAM later.  Most of them are just scammy (pardon the French) perverts and deadbeats.  The real issue here is that our illustrious government leaders in all their glory and with all their wisdom will eventually figure out that they need to give these guys an entitlement and then they won't have to work so hard. PLUS ... that will take them off the unemployed list and make the unemployment numbers go down so that we will re-elect them and feel real cozy.  Ain't we smart !!!!!   It's our tax dollars at work, thank you very much !!!!!!!

Just got a text from James Scott. What a bunch of crap. Craigslist is getting worse with spammers and scams.

Re. "he will tell you anything to get you to send your item", he does not want your item. He does want you to agree to the deal because what he's after is the 2000-300=$1,700 that you have to Western Union him (Moneygram, Green Dot card, whatever). The $1,700 you send him is your own money that will vanish is short HOURS. The $2,000 check will bounce in DAYS to WEEKS after he already has your $1,700 in his hands. You will lose $1,700, will have your bank account frozen for weeks while the bank investigates (no access to money, utility auto-debits denied, etc.), will likely be hit with bank fees, and may be prosecuted for passing a bad check or money laundering. A fake cashiers check is the most common version of this kind of overpayment scam. He does not want your item because he won't want to give you his real address to ship the item to and give himself away.

Got another text from this fool. After telling him to go "F--K HIMSELF" he still thinks we have a deal, how bold. I reported him thru the FBI website and I hope they catch him and string him up by his balls.

This is a scammer that answers classified ads and wants to send you a bad check, have you cash it, and send then the money minus your asking price for whatever item you are selling. His name comes up as James Colt and he will tell you anything to get you to send your item. He sent me a text with a USPS tracking number which did show up as a good number but why would you want to send someone a check for over $2000 dollars for a $300 dollar item.

Yeah he texted me wanting to send me a check. It sounded. Off so I googled him. He used a deceased persons name.

I think this is a scammer that answers classified ads and wants to send you a bad check, have you cash it, and send then the money minus your asking price for whatever item you are selling.