Nigerian check scam
By happymoney
@happymoney (143)
Finland
May 2, 2007 4:58pm CST
I am selling banner place in my site. One day someone contacted me and wanted to buy banner place. He asked my address so he could send me a check. That was first time I thought that this might be a scam, because I have easier ways of paying. He wanted to invest 50$ to my site and when I got check it was 500$ check. He told me that I should sen some money back, but because I had heard about scams like this, I didn't do it. After I told him that I don't send any money back and I don't even bother to tring to cash check because I think he is just trying to scam me, he haven't contacted me and he never send me a banner which he would like to add my site.
So if you or your friend have a website where you are selling banner place, be careful. I think that scams like those are based on volume and those who do that will try to it to everybody they can. I have heard that they have scammed some money by bying carss, motorcycles etc.
I surely was lucky because I know something about that kind of scam. Otherwise I could send some money back and lose them all, because my bank would someday tell me that check is useless.
3 responses
@happymoney (143)
• Finland
3 May 07
Scams in Internet is so easy to point so many people and because it doesn't cost a scammer any money they are richer even if one in a million fall in scam.
I think it is easy to fall scam like this, because it looks like that at least you don't lose any money because you have that check.
@happymoney (143)
• Finland
3 May 07
Of course it is hard to believe that someone want to gave you a million, but I don't think that it is so hard to believe that someone want to buy something from you and hes wife or someone write wrong amount in check. And yes I am sure that check is false and bank wont give any money or bank will take money back later.
In my case I was selling banner place price 50$ and "accidently" buyers wife wrote $500. Buyer asked if I would send $400 back.
@bazzo9 (83)
• Netherlands
3 May 07
Ok , all this Nigerian scammers are commiting internetcrime. Did you also had some email from somebody who says he/she is very rich and that you get 1 million if you give him some "investment cash" ? They just walk away with the money.
@happymoney (143)
• Finland
3 May 07
I haven't got that kind of messages for ages. Do they still try that old scam? I just thought that it is hard to believe that kind of scams, but it is easier to fall in scams where they just accidently wrote wrong sum in check and ask you to give some money back. Specially because they can't say in banl right away that this check is bad and you can't have any money with it.
@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
2 May 07
Yes my friend you were very smart. That is exactly how the scam works. The scammers send you more money than is due and then ask you to send some money back to them, but the checque is bogus and your bank will charge it back to you so you would have lost the money that you sent. I wish more people would realize this.
