Scams

There are a lot of scams out there that seem so real. I had a lady email me. She said she was an artists and lived in the UK. She needed someone to cash her customers (her customers in the US) money orders and western union the money to her. For doing this she was going to pay 20% of whatever the money order was. My first question was why can't her customers either write her a money order or send her a check. Her answer was that in order for her to cash the checks or money orders she would have to come to the US every time she recieved payment,she said the banks over there wouldn't cash US checks or money orders,so she had to go to US and also ,she didn't have a passport. I asked her what kind of money was she talking about(you know,amount).I knew this was a scam and kind of played with her. She never told me how much. I told her that the only way I could do it is if I deposited the money order into my bank and waited the required waiting period for the check to clear,then I would take out her amount and western union it to her. I also told her that I would need to talk to her customer just briefly(to make sure they were real,but I didn't tell her tha)lol.she was really getting into this,thinking I was going to do this until I told her about my bank holding it and me needing to talk briefly to her customers.he he he. after the last one....wanting to talk to her customers,I never heard from her again. It's really too bad that people get scammed by these scammers especially the elderly. They seem to prey on them. I also report al scams to my local police and bank so if anyone goes to the bank with a suspicious money order or check or if the custommer tells them what it's for,the bank will catch it and save someone from losing their money.

I am assuming they are giving them this written form of payment for money. Which is written on Paper(Money Order). The victims gives them the amount of money. When the victim takes the Money Order to the bank to get their money back they learn it is a fake. There is no money. The scammer got your money and long gone. You are left with nothing and lost what you gave them.