I have received a "phony" cashiers check from a yahoo address of [e-mail]. I need to know

Question

who this is to report this tto the FBI and Deparment of Homeland Security. The check was mailed from Canada. Yahoo will need to help the US Federal Authorities locate this phony who is making FAKE $38,000.00 cashiers checks, which have been verified by the bank. I want her name revoked from Yahoo, or I will cancel my business account with you.

Answer 1

You know better than to do business over the net without thoroughly investigating the people you are doing business with. Sounds to me like you got frogged. I wouldn't be bragging it around.

Answer 2

Welcome to the world. Hopefully you did not spend anything to get that check.

There is an entire worldwide enterprise in sending out those checks. The general approach is that they want you to send them back the change or to deposit it into a 'business account' for them and keep 20% and send them the other 80% right now.

If you do that, guess who will get stuck for the entire amount later on?

You can call the FBI, but most of these crimes are based out of Nigeria or have their roots in Nigeria and there is absolutely no way that the US can touch them. Even tho there is a canada address I will bet money that they wanted you to wire funds via western Union - Right? Most people do not know that if you have the control number for the transaction, you can collect the wired money from ANY Western Union in the world.

What Can you do?

1) Send a copy of the text to [e-mail]. They will investigate and send you some boilerplate, but they WILL close the account.

2) Send an email to the FBI if you wish... they have a whole collection. You will feel like you did the right thing.

3) If you are not out any money... have some fun with the scammer. After all they are not going to come down to your house and arrest YOU. With a little practice you can ruin THEIR day a bit and make them hustle all over town to collect money that is not coming. Visit www.419eater.com for an introduction to a group of people that try to make a scammers life hell by turning the tables on him. If you go to the links from there you will find exactly the same type of con that was tried on you. Meantime enjoy the knowledge that the con artist who sent you that check had to pay someone to create it for him/her (

4) If you ARE out money. THen you are scr*wed, as you have already found out. Its an expensive lesson and I am very sorry it has happened. Call your local newspaper, and see if they will run a story. Maybe you can save one other person and that will help.

drop me a line if you enjoy option #3 and I will share a few stories.

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Answer 3

Ok, just a reminder, the folks at Yahoo will not read this question here. So threatening to cancel you business account on here won't do you much good.

Next on the agenda. Contact the FBI. Actually call them up and talk to a person. Describe what is going on. They will investigate it, redirect you to another agency, or tell you it is not a crime. I don't bet on the last one happening though.

You can also contact the postal service, your own local police, or the FTC. Something else to think about it taking the check to your bank and talking to a manager and getting his/her advice.

I do not think that Yahoo will have much power to do much with this since they are not the ones who wrote the check. However, you never can tell. They will probably want to be informed about this. Here is a page with some real Yahoo contact info.

http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/contact.cfm

Answer 4

Get a No Cost Background Check Scan at https://bitly.im/aNEjU

Its a sensible way to start. The site allows you to do a no cost scan simply to find out if any sort of data is in existence. A smaller analysis is done without cost. To get a detailed report its a modest payment.

You may not realize how many good reasons there are to try and find out more about the people around you. After all, whether you're talking about new friends, employees, doctors, caretakers for elderly family members, or even significant others, you, as a citizen, have a right to know whether the people you surround yourself with are who they say they are. This goes double in any situation that involves your children, which not only includes teachers and babysitters, but also scout masters, little league coaches and others. Bottom line, if you want to find out more about someone, you should perform a background check.

Answer 5

a Cashier's Check from an email address? Sorry, I just don't get it.
If you want to communicate with Yahoo, then contact Yahoo Corporate, don't post it on Yahoo Answers. We're just a bunch of Yahoo users like yourself. We aren't the corporate office of Yahoo.
Try this link: http://info.yahoo.com/

Answer 6

You need to contact the postal authorities in both Canada and the United States. Since mail fraud has been committed. Second contact your local authorities in regards to this.

Answer 7

You can take the check to the State's attorney's office. It is a felony to write a check for an amount like that. I work as a bartender, and once this guy came in and wrote me a $20,000.00 check, he also gave one to my friend. We knew these checks were no good, but we did take them to his bank. Security came out and took us into the back and started asking us questions about the guy. They told us we could take the checks to the state's atty. and sue him for the money. We didn't, but if you want to you can check into that. Good luck.

Answer 8

you tell em. go to the FBI and let them know about it. they have a special unit in the FBI for stuff like this. good luck. shut her asss down.

Answer 9

people do all sorts of things. if i were you i'd check with yahoo to make sure this person exist and if that person know anything about it. could be fraud.

Answer 10

Why would yahoo care if you cancelled your FREE account?