was identity theft - now international transfers

The only International money orders the US Post office will cash are their own and Canadian post. I know because I took a Japanese Postal International Money order once and the US Post wouldn't have anything to do with it. It was legitimate but I ended up having to deposit it to cash it. I do take Canadian Postal Money Orders now. I have used the interbank for international money transfer once and it worked easily. I seem to remember that I had my credit union generate a transaction number along with the interbank number that I sent to the person purchasing the item. A couple of days later the money showed up in my Credit Union Account. However it cost me $10 for the transaction on my side, which I had the customer pay, after all he wanted to pay by wire transfer. Nowadays I take Western Union Wire transfers, Western Union International Money Orders, Bidpay, Paypal or US dollars (Cash) for international purchases. I do not take Certified or Bank Checks, especially for amounts greater than the purchase. And I do not ship until I am certain I have payment. Lately, in posting a HP110 outfit on the HP Museum's for sale site I received three fraudulent offers, and one serious one. Two of the offers were to purchase it with a certified check for a set amount, much more than the item and then have me forward the HP110 and the extra money on to them. The third fraudulent offer was a blatant offer to let me pad the invoice with other goods, name my own price, and get paid by a certified check. I was very disappointed to see that amount of scamming on the bulletin board. All were internationally based scams and easy to recognize, though. Paxton Astoria, Oregon USA