The Nigeria scammers are at it again! NOTE: ANY time you receive payment for something you're selling, especially if they try to overpay you, call the issuing check institution to see if it's fraud! I'm sure these jackasses have ripped off more than a few people, fortunately I called and figured it out first. Perhaps they need a real job.......
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I've made it a hobby of collecting these checks (see RBR thread here: http://forums.roadbikereview.com/showthread.php?t=1612 and scroll down for pics)with the pretense of going along with their scheme, It's actually a great deal of fun, and if you collect enough checks like I did, you can have them framed and impress your friends.
I love it!!
I get a phoney offer of this type every couple of months, and it never occurred to me to play along with the hucksters, costing them time, postage, and whatever they pay for their bogus checks; but I'll do so now!
Thanks for a great idea, Dave!
Their time is not too costly, they spend most of it in internet cafes doing their deeds. What does cost them is the phoney checks and the FedEx from where ever to here. I called FedEx once after I received a check from Nigeria and was told that FedEx Next Day (the way the checks are often sent) is close to $50.00! So I figure if enough people play along until they get a check, these guys will feel it in their wallet. Plus it does make for some interesting e-mails.
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The Nigeria scammers are at it again! NOTE: ANY time you receive payment for something you're selling, especially if they try to overpay you, call the issuing check institution to see if it's fraud! I'm sure these jackasses have ripped off more than a few people, fortunately I called and figured it out first. Perhaps they need a real job.......
No legitimate buyer is going to send you a check and *trust* you to send him the difference! So anytime that you get an offer of a cashiers check 'from a client' with instructions to send the 'excess funds' via Western Union or MoneyGram, it's a given that it is a scam! If you do receive a check, like Ryan Bates says; call the issuing institution for confirmation. If you deposit the check, your bank will give you the money because it assumes that the check is good. When the check gets returned to your bank as being *bad*, your bank will impound that amount of money from your account. If it can be determined that you knowingly deposited a fraudulent check, you could be prosecuted.
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The Nigeria scammers are at it again! NOTE: ANY time you receive payment for something you're selling, especially if they try to overpay you, call the issuing check institution to see if it's fraud! I'm sure these jackasses have ripped off more than a few people, fortunately I called and figured it out first. Perhaps they need a real job.......
No legitimate buyer is going to send you a check and *trust* you to send him the difference! So anytime that you get an offer of a cashiers check 'from a client' with instructions to send the 'excess funds' via Western Union or MoneyGram, it's a given that it is a scam! If you do receive a check, like Ryan Bates says; call the issuing institution for confirmation. If you deposit the check, your bank will give you the money because it assumes that the check is good. When the check gets returned to your bank as being *bad*, your bank will impound that amount of money from your account. If it can be determined that you knowingly deposited a fraudulent check, you could be prosecuted.
If it sounds too good to be true. . .
They keep doing it because there are a lot of gullible people without a lick of sense. Why get a real job if idiots will pay you for nothing?
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"Ryan Bates" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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The Nigeria scammers are at it again! NOTE: ANY time you receive payment for something you're selling, especially if they try to overpay you, call the issuing check institution to see if it's fraud! I'm sure these jackasses have ripped off more than a few people, fortunately I called and figured it out first. Perhaps they need a real job.......
No legitimate buyer is going to send you a check and *trust* you to send
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the difference! So anytime that you get an offer of a cashiers check
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client' with instructions to send the 'excess funds' via Western Union
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MoneyGram, it's a given that it is a scam! If you do receive a check,
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Ryan Bates says; call the issuing institution for confirmation. If you deposit the check, your bank will give you the money because it assumes
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the check is good. When the check gets returned to your bank as being
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your bank will impound that amount of money from your account. If it can
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determined that you knowingly deposited a fraudulent check, you could be prosecuted.
If it sounds too good to be true. . .
They keep doing it because there are a lot of gullible people without a lick of sense. Why get a real job if idiots will pay you for nothing?
