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Old 11-04-2009, 10:07 PM
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Default WAY off topic... Scam alert

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, this is way off topic, but I'm sure none of you guys in the B5 Models ever check off topic anyway, I know I don't.

Anyway, You guys have all been a great help over the past few months since I joined AF, and I just wanted you all to be aware of a "new" scam going around. They tried to get my wife with this one.

My wife, while looking for a new job, found in our local paper an ad for a Mystery Shopper. She sent an email, got a response, then forgot about it, until today when 2 WalMart money orders showed up in the mail today for almost $2,000 total. The money orders were a pretty good forgery, but obviously they're fake. She is supposed to cash them at our bank, then be a "Mystery Shopper" at Western Union sending the money internationally.

DUH!!!

Anyway, just wanted you guys to be aware...
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Old 11-05-2009, 12:14 AM
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if they let u cash the money then go for it lol
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Old 11-05-2009, 12:21 AM
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Yep.. take them to WalMart and cash them
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Old 11-05-2009, 12:41 AM
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Thought with those checks if they come out to be fraud, even if they find out 2 weeks later they will take the funds out of account...
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Old 11-05-2009, 12:57 AM
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Thats why you go to Walmart
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Old 11-05-2009, 03:01 AM
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The point of the scam is you are suppose to deposit the checks into your bank account then wire the money that you dont get to keep to the forger. By the time the bank processes it and the check bounces and is picked up as fraudulant you are out two large.

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Old 11-05-2009, 06:59 AM
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Thanks for letting us know.

Good looking out for fellow members.
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Old 11-05-2009, 07:45 AM
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Well, we called MoneyGram themselves and asked them if they could run the reference numbers because we suspected to have fake checks. They said they couldn't do it over the phone, so my wife took them down to Wal-Mart and told them the deal. They could tell right away they were fake but ran the numbers anyways. Then, she dropped them off at the police station.
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Old 11-05-2009, 01:17 PM
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^^ Good deal...

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You never deposit checks from unknown persons into your own account...
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