Originally Posted by RayVega

My neighbor has been filling out all these bullshit "we will find you business grants" forms online.

Well last week he got a letter which congratulated him on the fact that they have isolated several US grants that he qualifies for and that grants were guaranteed and already in an escrow account. In the Letter was a Legitimate looking CHECK from one of the smaller grants they got for him which all in total were $75,000.

The check was for $3580.88 and the reason they processed this grant was to show him that they were real etc. Now to get the additional money, all he needs to do is send them $3500 in fees Via Western Union and in a few weeks he'd receive the rest of the checks.

Wow! he figured he had it made. He deposited the check...and it CLEARED! That's when (now that he knew it was legit) he showed me, and told me about it.

Of course I eventually convinced him to abandon his dream until more investigation was done, but the wire had to be sent back within three days! Needless to say, he waited and received a nice call from the bank manager telling him the check was fake, and that sometimes the money will hit the account even if a check was a fake for a few days until it's caught, but the bank is not responible and it was taken back from his account.

What a scam! He almost sent them $3500 to have it yanked back out of his account. Thanks to a little common sense he didn't get ripped off.

I wonder how many people fall for this shit?
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