Originally Posted by
vjjo743
My daughter sells Avon and has a webiste. She got an email from a person wanting to order $200.00 worth of products and would send a money order or check to her. The email was polite and had a lot of grammatical errors and typos. I told her it sounded suspicious. She got a second email saying they had a secretary send her a check, but she was in the hospital and had a car wreck, but the check was for a lot more than the $200.00, she quoted some Bible verses hoping she could trust us to return the extra money (Ha). We had our address on the email, mistake, has since taken it off email. They FedXed the check to us for $1900.00. Wanted us to deposit in the bank and then send the rest of the money to her daughter Western Union for her wedding. I was trying to get someone to help us with this scam, maybe catch them, so I continued to play a long. Next email we got was telling us she had just returned from her brothers' burial and by the way she said she was also deaf. We took the check to the bank and they looked it over and it was a fraud, account numbers did not match on check. The scamer even called us on the phone wanting the money sent, they were getting very aggressive, not so polite anymore. I told them we took the check to the bank and it was not a good check and was being sent back to their financial institution. Never heard from them again. So Wells Fargo is investigating them.
My boss has an investment property in Flagler Beach which we advertise on Craigs List. I get e-mails all the time asking to reserve a date which is very soon (usually no more than a week away) and stating they are arriving from the UK but their agent "in the states" will send us a check and all they need is my name, number, address, home phone number and cell phone number which I don't provide in my reply emphasizing that we don't take checks. Then they e-mail back saying their company was paying for this and had made a mistake and sent us a check that included their "travel money" and would we please send them the money. I have a standard reply that states we will ONLY accept credit cards with less than 30 days notice due to fraudulent checks and scams but still giving them the benefit of a doubt. I rarely hear back from them!