Dro_Princess
02-16-2007, 08:13 PM
Let me give you a back story as to whats going on and why I called the police. Its kinda long but very important that you guys read it.
A couple days ago this guy on yahoo contacted my mom and was telling her about this great part time job. He told her all she had to do was cash a check and she got 300 bucks and was to wire the rest of the to someone in the UK. Well she thought it was a great thing and told me about it. I knew it was a scam from the start but I went along with it. I once before been almost scammed with a similar tactic. I wanted to try and get this guy busted and I hope that it works.
Today I recieved a check for $2,850. I called the bank it was from and got conformation that it was a FAKE check. I then called the police to notify them that someone was doing this. I also contacted the company that the check said it was from and notified them. They have recieved many calls about fake checks being made out on their behalf. I was patched through to the president of the compnay and left him a voice mail. I gave him my name and number and told him that the police would be stopping by my house to take a report, and for him to call me back if he wanted any of the information that I had saved from my contacts with this guy.
You see this is what happens. If you get the check and cash it and then wire it to the guy in the UK you are screwed. A few days later the bank finds out its a fake check and guess what. You have to pay the whole amount of the check back to the bank. So if I wouldnt have know better I would have owed the bank $2,850. People who are in need of money will be blind sighted and not realize they are being scammed.
People like this guy make me sick. They should be in prison. Think of poor old grandma living on social security who falls for something like this. Or the single mother just wanting to provide for her baby. Or the teenagers looking to make a buck.
I just wanted to get on here and post this so no one else can fall victim to this scums scam. Someone in the US is the one making out the checks and they are just as bad and deserve to be busted, and locked up.
Has anyone else on here been contacted about these kind of scmas?
A couple days ago this guy on yahoo contacted my mom and was telling her about this great part time job. He told her all she had to do was cash a check and she got 300 bucks and was to wire the rest of the to someone in the UK. Well she thought it was a great thing and told me about it. I knew it was a scam from the start but I went along with it. I once before been almost scammed with a similar tactic. I wanted to try and get this guy busted and I hope that it works.
Today I recieved a check for $2,850. I called the bank it was from and got conformation that it was a FAKE check. I then called the police to notify them that someone was doing this. I also contacted the company that the check said it was from and notified them. They have recieved many calls about fake checks being made out on their behalf. I was patched through to the president of the compnay and left him a voice mail. I gave him my name and number and told him that the police would be stopping by my house to take a report, and for him to call me back if he wanted any of the information that I had saved from my contacts with this guy.
You see this is what happens. If you get the check and cash it and then wire it to the guy in the UK you are screwed. A few days later the bank finds out its a fake check and guess what. You have to pay the whole amount of the check back to the bank. So if I wouldnt have know better I would have owed the bank $2,850. People who are in need of money will be blind sighted and not realize they are being scammed.
People like this guy make me sick. They should be in prison. Think of poor old grandma living on social security who falls for something like this. Or the single mother just wanting to provide for her baby. Or the teenagers looking to make a buck.
I just wanted to get on here and post this so no one else can fall victim to this scums scam. Someone in the US is the one making out the checks and they are just as bad and deserve to be busted, and locked up.
Has anyone else on here been contacted about these kind of scmas?