accordepicenter

a local guy recieved a counterfeit western union and didnt know it until a week later when the bank let him know...

jung4g

I almost did go cash them, just for the fact that he sent $1800 for shipping, I knew it was shady.

I'd get rid of them somehow, but they are addressed to me, with my name and address. The bank probably would have taken them at first, but they would have come back eventually, so it's not worth it.

I'm trying to get the guys info by saying I need an address to send the wire transfer info to. I already talked to the Postal Inspector, he confirmed that they are fakes, and he just told me to drop off the info involved in the transaction at a local post office and they'll forward it to him.

Overall this sucks, interweb scammers suck

accordepicenter

i posted my dads car on Craigslist cuz hes trying to sell it, ive gotten 6-8 bogus "im a broker and ill give you 3x what the car is worth for my customer in south africa" type of bs... Some of em are pretty trickey but most of them are pretty obvious scams

jinxy

take a picture of you holding 1800 american dollars then send the picture to them with your face blured out and flipping them off. and on the back write "---- you, i have your money"

G2turbo_terror

/\/\/\ Do that! Then they'll be like WTF!?

You can get into some serious trouble trying to cash bogus checks just try to get the most info from them possible and let the authorities take care of it.

racerex

I've dealt with a lot of this ---- working at a bank for two years and now I work for a major shipping company and we get pallet load after pallet load of african fraud merchandise. This scam is just so common and well known I don't know how anybody falls for it. And even if they do I don't know how anybody can even get funds from the bank. Here's the problem:

If you go to the bank with a large cashier's check (that's the more common scam) they are most likely going to put a hold on your funds (per Reg. CC). That is assuming that the teller doesn't notice it's a fake, but since 90% of teller are stupid asses, there is actually a pretty good chance. But the chances that it won't be found as a fake before your hold is released is very slim. Then the just pull all the funds back out of your account anyways, and you're never able to send the cash.

They guy that is going to get screwed the worst is the one that has the kinda cash in his account to cash the check against. If he sends the cash (which is just idiotic) he's going to have to eat it when the bank pulls all the funds from that check back out of his account. Sorry, the bank isn't going to eat that one. Greedy bastards.

But this new money order one might set more ppl up for problems. There is probably less of a chance of a hold, just because money orders are under $1000. But even at that, the fakes are almost all of terrible quality, so who knows.