[TheForge] Interesting scam

[Jerry Smith]

         The spelling of the word Cheque, should have tip everyone off, the 
American spelling is Check, the rest of the world spells it like in the email.
         I ignore such things.

Jerry

At 12:51 PM 10/20/2004, you wrote:
>A friend of mine, not on theforge, is trying to sell a nice drophammer for
>$2000 and other equipment. He advertises on e-bay. He has got 
>approximately the
>  following response from several different sources over the last year.
>
>Anyone know what the details of the scheme are? How does it work.
>
>
>Hello,
>
>this is a very straight forward deal, and not bad  transaction, is just that
>as i have said in my previouse mail that i have an  associate in the states
>that is oweing me a sum of $6,500,and he as agreed to  pay me back in that 
>term
>of cheque so all what i will like you to do is to have  the trust on me 
>that i
>will instruct him to issue you a certified cheque of  $6,500 on my behalf and
>send it to your  location  as soon as cheque  arrives,i will like you to take
>the cheque to the nearest cashing store for the  fast payment of your
>money,at the cashing store all you need to do is you will  be requested to 
>pay for
>some charges in other to get the cheque cashed, so after  that you have to 
>make
>use of the western union money transfer in your location  to get the balance
>of $4,300 wired to them so that the pick up can easily be  made asap.
>
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