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Originally Posted by greatharvest
The emails I received were inviting me to work as a Secret Shopper. I, like an idiot, filled in my name, address, phone number expecting to receive instructions about doing some shopping to rate the service. Then I received a couple checks from Go Motors in Boulder Colorado. Each was for $1,850. I was instructed to deposit one and cash the other and immediately send the cash through western union. I did all that, then started to wonder why I was sending this money through western union. I looked up Lemmens Crane, Go Motors, and the several different addresses I got. That is when I found out this is most likely a scam.
But now I am sitting with over $2000 in the bank that I have no clue what to do with. I already sent $1500 via western union before getting wise to the scam.
I decided last night to contact the FBI, but they advised me to forward the emails to them, and I don't see how that is getting me anywhere.
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They are so many diffrent type of internet scams has been flooded and spam through-out internet. Many of us has suffer job loss and desperatly looking for another sort of quick income. Those Nigerian are taking advantage of us more during this recession and they are running internet scams more in the past year than I have ever seen. Some offer part time job, roomate payment in advance, down payment on realestate, packages arrivals, inheritance, personal loans, transfering money to investment, any of these sort is all part of the Nigerian scams to get them to send you their conterfeit checks to cash along offering you to make 10-20% of the top call commissions for you work. They are trying to trick you by sending you a fake cashier checks, which looks so real lots of banks cant even tell the different. I have seen US Postal Money Order, Bank Of America, Chase Bank and many others types of checks. The trick is to get you to cash those checks with your local bank, 99% of the time your bank will not question you since you do banking business with them. Then you take your 10-20% commissions of the top your part to keep and than they want you to wire them the rest of the money by Western Union. Keep in mind, if you cash what ever amount of the checks they have sent you, you will be out of that amount with your bank. those Nigrians are excellent con artist, they know not to send you extremly large amount of check to cash due to the red flag it will create. Some of the banks are getting smarter by doing a 10 days hold on the checks before they depurse the funds although if you have enough funds availible in you checking, saving, money market, etc; 100% of the time your bank will go ahead and cash those checks without putting a hold on it. Nigeria are now known to be one of the largest corrupted country and number one mass producer of counterfeits checks. So dont get caught in the middle like my neighbor did which he lost 20,000.00 in his saving and still owe 10,000.00 to his bank by cashing those conterfeit checks. And here is some example of internet scam. If you get caught in the middle there is nothing you can do, you might as well say good by to that money and the chance is that hopping you dont get in trouble for cashing conterfeit checks...kepp in mind, CIA, FBI cant do a darn thing about it.
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I am in search of an agent to assist us in the transfer of A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF
MONEY and subsequent investment in properties in your country.
You will be required to
(1) Assist in the receiving the said sum before arrival
(2) Advise on lucrative areas for investment
(3) Assist us in purchase of properties.
If you decide to render your service to us in this regard, 50% of the total sum
of THE SAID AMOUNT OF MONEY will be for you. Send information such as personal
telephone/fax number and contact address when replying.
yours faithfully,
#2
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#3
From: MR. V H C CHENG
Hello,
I am Mr. Vincent Cheng Hoi Chuen, GBS, JP Chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation Limited. I have a sensitive, confidential brief from
Hong Kongand I am asking for your partnership in re- profiling funds worth
$24,000,000.00 (Twenty Four Million U.S Dollars) What I require from you is your
honest co-operation and I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of the law.
Please accept my apologies, keep my confidence and disregard this email if you
do not appreciate this proposition I have offered you.
All confirmable documents to back up this fund shall be made available to you,
as soon as I receive your reply via ,I shall let you
know what is required of you.
Regards from,
Mr.Vincent
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Nothing FBI can do
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