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A woman, Deborah *******, reached out to me via my website, looking to give away a Yamaha baby grand piano. The claim was that her husband had died about a year ago and she felt he wouldn’t want her to sell her piano, but rather give it away to someone passionate about music, a music school, etc. She claimed that, after he died, she had moved to Calgary from Edmonton, and the piano had been left in storage in Edmonton. The piano was free, but “the beneficiary” would pay moving costs. She then said to contact her moving company for a quote - Fast Lane Movers. This is where, for various reasons, I grew very suspicious and suspected a scam ; I pursued it no further. Finding comments online, others had been contacted in the same way, with the same story (though a different name each time), and had I continued to pursue it, it seems the moving company would have given me a quote and then wanted me (of course) to pay it before delivery of the piano. When I asked my piano guys out of curiosity what a move like that would have cost, they estimated around $1,200.