Hi I am a college student, and live in Pa. I received a check in the mail for 3251 dollars from a fake company called iRecruit. I cashed the check at a check cashing place and sent about 2800 back to the people (please don't tell me I was stupid.....I know!) Now I am being charged with fraud. I want to know since this is my first offense will I receive jail time?
I was told I would receive community service and probation and I can pay 150 to get it off of my record. I am so scared and have no idea what to do. I have never so much as getting a traffic ticket and now I can be going to jail. I was thinkg about going back to the check cashing place and asking if I repay the money will they drop the charges.
I really wasn't thinking at the time, I was a college student and was broke! Will they drop the charges if I have all of the paper work from the company ?
If any one can help please do?
Also if anyone know any websites I can get information off please send it!
2007-05-14 10:25:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Yes, get a lawyer. I'm shocked that the district or county attorney charged you in this case, when you were clearly just a pawn in a larger (and VERY well known) scheme. Plus, I'm not sure you had the requisite intent to defraud the check cashing place... which makes you NOT GUILTY. This isn't legal advice, but just a friendly note saying that things probably aren't so bad. Potential punishments always look frightening, and, as one cirminal defense attorney says "anytime you go into court, expect that you may be taken into custody." But the odds of that happening are rare, especially here. You need an ADVOCATE to get the charges dropped, not merely reduced. Because check fraud will travel with you wherever you go from here on out.
Seek counsel; good luck; take deep breaths; you'll get through this!
2007-05-14 10:56:54 · answer #1 · answered by Perdendosi 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You need to get a lawyer. You should not be in any trouble as long as you can repay the amount of the bad check. Obviously you will be out the $2800, but YOU were not trying to defraud this company. They should have asked for the money back.
You need a lawyer. You can get out of this. I suggest you see if your college provides legal aid to students. Mine does.
2007-05-14 10:33:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You won't be sent to jail. You will be required to repay the money back. You can work out a deal with the DA to do that. Keep your paperwork because you will have to prove that a college educated person was that gullible and stupid instead of a criminal.
2007-05-14 10:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by lcmcpa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you should learn from this experience. no one is going to offer a stranger a valid examine to deposit on the monetary employer. The in charge social gathering of a fraudulent examine is frequently the guy who signed the examine, whether it could additionally be the guy who fraudulently surpassed it on, or possibly a third social gathering who counseled and surpassed the examine directly to a different. examine fraud is a sort of criminal monetary employer fraud that includes utilising exams to illegally obtain or borrow money that don't actual exist in the account stability. examine fraud could variety from "floating" a examine to envision forgery. All varieties of examine fraud, whether via a individual or business organisation, carry criminal effects, which variety based on the state and the circumstances.
2016-10-05 01:52:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you will not receive jail time. Get with legal aid, to help you with your case, and they will see what kind of service you need to do to help you. Very rarely do the victims get jail time in this case, but a community service call.
if you have the emails/paperwork, work with your legal aid.
2007-05-14 10:33:08 · answer #5 · answered by arus.geo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go talk to the prosecutor. Any prosecutor worth his salt knows the difference between stupidity and venality. Advice to anyone else who receives such checks: always deposit them "subject to collection." Your account will not be credited until the check actually is paid.
2007-05-14 10:30:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Cash this check I'm sending you and keep 10% of it as a service fee for doing this for me. Then I can afford to send you all the information via Fed-Ex.
2007-05-14 10:30:50 · answer #7 · answered by Lavrenti Beria 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
try contacting the Pa Attorney General and let them know of the scam...
2007-05-14 10:31:13 · answer #8 · answered by bytchy_princess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋