I've never been asked this, so I agreed & some online woman sent me hundreds of dollars in money orders through ups from another country & has been bugging me to cash them through western union & send them to her (I haven't cashed them yet) then I heard it's a scam-what should I do?
2007-11-04 18:44:21 · 12 answers · asked by strange-artist 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Send them back to her and tell her that you won't participate in a scam. Those money orders are fakes and if you cash them on your account you will be responsible for them and she (if it really is a woman ) will be long gone with the money.
2007-11-04 18:54:45 · answer #1 · answered by Sniggle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have been asked in an email. I knew it was a scam so I just deleted it. I didn't even respond to the email. There is a scam going on like that and the checks are fake. If you deposit them into your account or cash them you are responsible if they do not go through and can be arrested. I am surprised at the small amount you are asked to cash. I was told in an email that they would be sending me checks in the thousands of dollars range and that I was to cash them and keep a portion for myself and send them the rest of the money. This sounds great but also at the same time it sounds too good to be true. If anything ever sounds too good to be true, it's because it is. The best thing you can do is to burn the checks and don't respond to any more emails like that. Also if that woman contacts you again, tell her that her checks were fake and you burned them and warn her not to send anymore and to forget your email address.
2007-11-04 19:33:31 · answer #2 · answered by Dakota Lynn Takes Gun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are probably fake money orders. If you try to cash them you will probably be arrested and charged with forgery and attempted attempted grand theft, a felony. Most prosecutors will try to nail you, because a jury will not believe you could be so stupid as to actually believe what you were doing is legal. You'll lose your job. You won't be able to afford an attorney, so you'll get the public defender who has 200 cases and not enough time, so the public defender will pressure you to cop a plea. The prosecutor will offer to drop it to a misdemeanor if you repay all the expenses of the bank and any money you got with the money orders, and let you get off with only serving 30 days in jail. You'll take the offer because you haven't documented your communications with this person and deep down you knew it was a scam anyway and now you realize that playing innocent won't go over too well with a judge, jury, prosecutor, and 4 FBI investigators who will testify against you. You'll ask to serve the time on weekends and do community service, and if you get a nice judge he'll let you do that. Ultimately your mom/dad brother/sister spouse/kids will find out and wonder what happened to the person they knew. And even if you tell them you were totally innocent, you know that for the next 30 years they'll always suspect that you committed a crime, tried to get away with it, and lied to them about it. If you ever try to get a job, you'll probably have to disclose it even if it's a misdemeanor, since forgery and stealing are "crimes of moral turpitude." You can forget about ever working for the government, winning a custody battle, or being a teacher.
So don't be stupid and ask "what should I do". The fact that you are asking that is exhibit number 1 in the case against you. You are already guilty (or very close to it) for conspiracy to commit grand theft, conspiracy to commit forgery/uttering (uttering means passing a fake check), or attempt to do those things, so you are potentially facing felony charges already. Next time don't be stupid. And whatever you do, don't cash those money orders. Go mark them all "Void" across the face, and turn them in to the cops or the FBI. Don't tip off your foreign contact - you might be able to get out of this by helping the cops do a sting operation with your contact. You might want to talk to a lawyer before you do anything though, and that will probably cost you but it will cost a lot less than ending up convicted of multiple felonies.
Best of luck!
2007-11-04 21:01:13 · answer #3 · answered by openairway 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give that check to your local police. If your friend attempts to cash it, SHE will owe the bank $3000 when it bounces 3 weeks later. And be investigated if not arrested for bank fraud. She will also be prohibited from opening any new bank account, credit card or taking out a loan for 5 years as her name and SSN will be put into CHEX System
2016-04-02 05:36:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
THIS IS 100% A SCAM. The money orders are forgeries .. for all kinds of variations on this scheme check out the post office's web site.
2007-11-04 19:00:41 · answer #5 · answered by TexasCanadian 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Send them back to her, with a letter letting her know that you aren't that stupid and to get off her butt and cash them herself.
Edit: Yes it is a scam, i guess i love to catch them on it. Though with some it doesn't shake, but there are some that will tremble a little. I hate scammers, they drive me crazy.
2007-11-04 18:52:59 · answer #6 · answered by Squeakers 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
DEFINITELY a scam. Call the police and show them the checks, or just throw them away if you don't want to get involved with it.
2007-11-04 19:01:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you want to go to jail! for Mail Fraud among other things.
Report this to the police and expect them to be suspicious of you also so keep all documentation.
Change your email address.
Never respond to internet,mail,or phone money solitations with good evidence of facts.
2007-11-04 18:52:14 · answer #8 · answered by izzie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Contact her and ask her why she can't just cash them herself. If she is a legal immigrant and has no criminal background there is no reason why she can't just cash them herself.
It sounds extremely suspicious to me. Don't get involved with it, IMO.
2007-11-04 18:48:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
send them back to her and yes it's a scam
2007-11-04 18:48:33 · answer #10 · answered by crengle60 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋