i so can not believe it......
By xXmeganxX
@xXmeganxX (4420)
February 27, 2007 3:55pm CST
ey peeps, as you may know a few weeks back now i put a discussion up from emails what had been sent to me from scammers and alot of people here told me they are scammers trying to get my money!
so anyway i have a friend who is only fluent speaking english and she called me yesterday to tell me she has a new online job working from home as she now has the internet, she's quite happy, well she sounded it telling me for every cheque she cashes she gets 10 percent!
right now today she text me telling me that she had recieved a ceque for £5000 and what she has to do tomorrow is put the cheque in her bank and keep 10% out of it and send the rest to her colleague via western union!
uh huh doesn't sound good to me! well anyway i told her it was a scam but she doesn't quite understand as i said before she is olny fluent with english, plus she is only new to the internet.
so any ideas on what i should do to p[revent anything bad happening to her? i wish she would of told me this earlier as i don't want anything to happen to her!
please help me out here peps, much appreciated and thanks in advance! :'(
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22 responses
@mimatexas (1818)
• United States
27 Feb 07
It sure is a scam. I received a check some time back telling me to cash it in my bank and send them back the money via moneygram. Well after I had cashed the check and asked for a moneygram, the moneygram company called me and asked how I got the money, I explained to them and they told me it was a scam, the check was counterfeit, they placed the moneygram account on hold and I voided the transaction and returned the money to the bank and they gave the check back. God was with me and nothing happened but I wouldn't listened to them, the check would have bounced and I would have a negative balance in my account. Tell your friend not to cash the check or deposit it in her account. It's a counterfeit check.
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@xXmeganxX (4420)
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27 Feb 07
hey mimatexas well i didn't know that this happens! i wasn't sure on how it was done! how long do they find out that it's fake or something? i cant imagine her going into the bank and them taking it off her telling her it's counterfeit, she would cry or something! im sorry this happened to you and you were so lucky! thanks very much for responding! +
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@Alexandria37 (5717)
• Ireland
27 Feb 07
If your friend does not already have £5000 in her bank account, then the bank will have to wait for the cheque to clear before they will release any funds drawn on it. It won't be long before they tell her that it is a forged cheque and is worthless. Hopefull she won't put herself in this posittion.
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@xXmeganxX (4420)
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27 Feb 07
hey alexandria, im going to try and make her not do it, even if it means me bwegging her, i really don't want her getting into trouble as she is a very nice girl! im sure i will or i hope i will be able to stop her! thanks v much for the info and responding! +++
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
27 Feb 07
Meg I think you are going to have to go and see her and explain it to her. This sounds very serious and she could be doing something against the Law here. If she has put that cheque into her account and the Money is stolen or something she will be the one in Jail, so please go and see her and stop her. My Son had a case where he was selling something on E-Mail and this Guy sent him a cheque and to me it was dodgy as it was aparently a Company cheque and he was paying more for the Shipping then the Item AND the Cheque was for £2000 and my son was to take his £200 and transfer the rest somewhere else, well guess what, my Sons Account was investigated as the Cheque aparently was stolen, he had to print of all the E-Mails this person had sent him which lucky enough he had kept and then take it all in to the Bank and for the week that it was being investigated he was not allowed to pick any money up. So please stop her.
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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28 Feb 07
wow gabs he was lucky there, it seems abit strange all these cheque things what people do, im glad you lot here on mylot told me first as i probably would of fell for it! im going to have a chat with her tomorrow and tell her about it even i will try and get her to come on mylot and show all the responses to my discussions and maybe that might help! thanks alot for responding and sharing with me gabs! much appreciated! +++ :)
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
28 Feb 07
hoghoney here, tell her to read this. I am dealing with this right now. It is launderying money. I have 3 checks right now on my desk waiting for the police to pick up from me, I got into the same thing they are fake. one is for $66,244.00 one for $79,542.72 and the other one is for $47,000.00. If she cashes them she can go to jail and then she will have to pay the bank back the money. My bank would not even touch them. So please tell her give them to the police or FBI or something but dont cash them. and dont take anything that has a yellow stamp one them or from canada that is where the biggest scammers are coming from right now.
@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
28 Feb 07
also tell her to keep any emails that she gets from them so the police can see them to help them find out where they came from. I have a copy of every email that these company and there so called customers sent me and the police are transferring my files some place to view them.
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@xXmeganxX (4420)
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28 Feb 07
wow how bad is that, well you done the right thing, im happy you done that and got in touch with the police, ive give her the link to mylot anyway with my name to sign up and have a read through my discussion, she says she would and i trust her, she is going to call me later and tell me what she's going to do about it anyway so thansk alot for your great responses! ++
@ScrappinHappyMom (914)
• United States
1 Mar 07
I hope she doesn't try to deposit the check hopefully her bank will tell her it is a scam. That check will bounce and she will be on the hook for the money she sent to the fraud company.
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@xXmeganxX (4420)
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3 Mar 07
she never deposited it mom im happy she never, me and my sister talked her out of it, im happy to say this! thanks alot for responding and sharing with me! ++ =)
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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28 Feb 07
hello lols yes we are going to have to tell her, you know who she is! so you can help me ok! +++
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@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
28 Feb 07
Tell your friend this is a scam and she could loose a lot of money. The cheque for 5000 pounds will look authentic, so the bank will accept it and credit her account. Your friend will have instructions to wire the money via Western Union to some other place, maybe out of the country. So the money minus the 10% is gone. In a few week's time your friend will get a notification from the bank that the cheque was bogus and that the bank will take the amount of 5000 pounds out of her account. If she does not have that kind of money in her account it will go into overdraft and the bank can sue her for it. End of story. She will have no recourse to the people to whom she wired the money. So I hope you read this soon and prevent your friend from depositing the cheque and wiring the money.
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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3 Mar 07
hiya thanks alot for your information, she never went through with the job anyway me and my sister talked her out of it! ++ =)
@classy56 (2880)
• United States
28 Feb 07
well i got a check for 4,999 from an irish lottery an they want me to take the check to the bank an cash it an send them the rest.i took it to the bank an it was fraud.the bank kept it an the police were called.here is what could happen to your friend if she cashes those check.if the bank give her any money from them checks an if the checks bounce.she has to pay all that money back to the bank.an they can file fraud charges against her.so she better not be cashing any checks.you can check out www.irishlottery scam.com
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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3 Mar 07
thanks alot for your advice, it has al been solved now + your adive really helped many thanks again! =)
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
28 Feb 07
This is not a good thing and i am afraid that if she does in fact cash that cheque. I sure hope that she doesn't though as she is really innocent but unfortuately we all know that this is not how the law sees it. Try to warn her again and this is really the best that you can do! If she does not listen then i guess that will be a lesson that she will have to learn on her own when she is paying the consequences for her own actions!
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@xXmeganxX (4420)
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3 Mar 07
thanks for your response ronita she informed the police anyway and they took the cheques away with them! ++ =)
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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3 Mar 07
thats okay shambuca its all been sorted out now thanks for your response! ++
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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3 Mar 07
woah how bad is that! glad he never went along with it, it's better to be safe than sorry after all! =)
@danabfunny (100)
• United States
28 Feb 07
You can tell her to type in the name of the site and put scam after the name.
There will be message boards with that site under scam boards if it's really a scam.
Or, she can go to the bbb online. Just type in bbb.com and there will be a link to the right that says bad business b.
They have a hughe site with a lot of online scam sites posted that they have personaly looked into.
Plus you can email the bbb with the web site and they will get back to you with in two days and let you know what is up with the site.
I have checked with them on a couple of places and they are very informative.
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@mbizmom (237)
• United States
28 Feb 07
I received one of those fake lottery checks in the mail so I looked up the address of the company, it didn't exist. I had the bank look at it, they said it looked fake. Then I called the bank it was supposedly written off of, the verified it was fake so I gave them all the contact info on the letter so their security team could look into it. She should do the same.
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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3 Mar 07
she called the police and got it all sorted, thanks for responding and sharing with me! =)
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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3 Mar 07
i know true, it's okay now she understands and has handed them in to the police! thanks for helping out! + =)
@jhartana (1084)
• Australia
28 Feb 07
You should stay away from scam like this and you should already know it does not give you any advantage. It maybe tempting for some, but if anyone gives in to it then they will fall for it. Pay more attention to any type of scams. She would be justified for what she had done, will be penalised for huge sum.
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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28 Feb 07
thanks alot for sharing with me, im going to see if my friend will read my discussion today and see what happens from there, i just hope she doesn't do it! ++
@GardenGerty (160665)
• United States
28 Feb 07
I have at least one myLot friend who has fallen for this scam. When you deposit the check, after the bank finds out it is bad, and you have wired money to someone else, then you are responsible for all of the bad checks that you deposited and got cash for. It is true. Just let your friend read all of the responses here.
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@xXmeganxX (4420)
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28 Feb 07
im going to try and get her to read this discussion gardengerty, hopefully she will! thanks alot for responding and sharing with me! +++
@yorb24 (2179)
• United States
28 Feb 07
The only thing you can do is warn her not to cash the check. I've heard of this before on the news, the check is bogus. It's fake. What they want her to do is try to cash it and if the bank doesn't catch it, they get the money from her BUT if do catch that it is not real, she will get in trouble for it. The authorities will get involved and she could be arrested for this. This way the scammers aren't caught only your friend is, tell her this. If she doesn't believe you, then she will have to find out for herself.
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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28 Feb 07
thanks alot yorb for responding, im going to see her today and hopefully try and get her here on mylot to read my discussion then that should work! if not then i don't know what will. ++
@jal1948 (1359)
• India
28 Feb 07
the first part is cashing a cheque she becomesliable andanswerable to the authorities asto where she got the money from,secondly she can encash the cheque and only when the cheque is cleared she remits 450 pounds to the concerned party from the cheque cleared amount and not from money of her own in this case if the cheque bounces the bank will levy a penalty on her which she needs to find out from the bank prior to the cheque being deposited
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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28 Feb 07
hey there thanks alot for sharing with me, im just going to try and persuade her to not do it as i don't want her getting into trouble! +++
@hestee (250)
• Nigeria
27 Feb 07
The law will come after her. The scammers are using her account as a means of clearing the cheques they duped people of. I have had such offers in the past which i decline to honour. I advised she should report to the police and let them take it from there. Tell her to always do a due diligence on any offer she gets in the future. It's not difficult to do online.
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@xXmeganxX (4420)
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28 Feb 07
hey thanks alot for this information given by you, im going to try my best to speak to her anyway and sort it out, i didn't think she could go to the police about this but great idea! thanks alot for helping me out here, cheers! +++ :)
@sarkar121 (63)
• Pakistan
28 Feb 07
say her to not accept tat job because if some one is stealing tat cheque from some where then she is gona get caught coz she is the one who is cashing tat cheque out.so tell her this thing tat not to do it cause i have much experience tat how ppl fraud with others.u can only advise her but if she doesn't listen then leave her.she will make her experience soon by learning a listen by the police
@xXmeganxX (4420)
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3 Mar 07
she never accpeted it, i talked her out of it thanks for responding and your help! ++
