Yes, it's a scam and the money orders, no matter how real they look, are forged. I worked many of these cases when I was the Financial Crimes Detective at my agency. They forge personal checks, business checks, cashiers checks, money orders - any financial document you can think of. I have also seen some beautiful work on forged/manufactured credit cards. With costs coming down on things like tipping machines, we have to be sharp and try to keep up with the many changing forms of these scams.
The stories I could tell you....
There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.