[TheForge] Interesting scam

[marilyn traber 011221]

Subject: Re: [TheForge] Interesting scam

> In a message dated 10/20/2004 3:54:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
> PlumDon at aol.com writes:
> 
> Anyone  know what the details of the scheme are? How does it work.  
> 
> Don...I got the same offer for a boat.  If your friend agrees, 
> cashes  the check and wires the balance to the recipient, when the 
> check bounces your  friend will be stuck having to pay the full 
> amount of the check + charges.
>  
> I called the FBI on my offer and they said, essentially, a sucker is 
>  born every minute and there is nothing they can do since the 
> transaction is  foreign.  Interpol might listen, but probably not closely.
>  
> I let my transaction go until the check came, then called it off.
>  
> Philip Whitley

I thought I sent you guys the log of a lady who was scamming the scammers. 
She kept playing along with them, making them send her duplicate checks and 
so forth until it cost them money. They've been doing this with horses and 
other moderately large ticket items. Reading through the letters back and 
forth is hysterical ;-)

One of the common things for these scams is the scammers screw up regularly- 
everything from serious mispellings and really strange grammar, to not being 
able to keep track of which fake name they were using.

Basicly, what they're doing is sending you forged checks and making their 
money when you send them the change. Eventually, the "certified" checks get 
exposed as forged, and come out of your bank account.

Remember guys, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Saint Phlip,
CoD

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