Huge Fucking Scam : Wow!
 

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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western union = always be careful

" Thanks for your mail,Since the cost of your bike is $800 i just contacted
my client about the cost of your bike and it present condition and he said
there is no problem about that.So my client said he will be issuing you a
Certified Check of $4000 while you wire 3000 to me through Western Union
Money Trasfer and you deduct the cost of your bike $800 and keep the
remaining $200 which my client said you should take for the terms of
Transaction and Agreement between you and my client.So i will like you to
send me your full contact information to where my client will be sending you
> the Certified Check like this:
> name.........
> full address.............
> city...............
> state.............
> country..........
> zipcode............
> cell/office/home phone number.......................
> I will look forward to the requested information as soon as possible so
that the check can be sent out to you immediately And do get back to me
with the Pics of the bike so tha! t my client will be Able to see What he
is paying off.Get back to me immediately. Looking torwards your
> respond,
> Best Regards."

from craigslist's fraud site

Probably a shitload thats why they keep doing it .

the saying is ..if it looks to good ....always someone will find a new smart angle/scam to get money off people..and ususally they prey on one weakness..greed..and the promise to people of easy money! :Oh crap

Did he contact the scammers back and let them know what he thought of them?

If you want real grants everyone knows you must buy that fat ass book by that crazy ass old guy on TV or at least go to B & N and copy out the ones that interest you.

Or some towns have a grant and resource center.

The Australian Government has reported that Australians in Australia are losing $2.5 million EVERY MONTH to the Nigerian scam alone.

Still. TODAY.

Suckers are born every minute.

2c

probably Nigerian ring out of Toronto. They have huge printing shop there that can make checks that look 100% real.

Nigerian scam again; whenever you hear about Western Union, the scam is there!

wow :disgust

That is a really old scam it has many variations but always the same. They send you a fraudulent check you wire money to them. Any time someone sends you money and then asks for money back that is usually a good tip off you are about to get robbed. That and the obvious Western Union.

When ever someone says "send me money so I can send you the money" it's a scam.

You know, this scam has been floating around forever. I no longer feel sorry for the people who get taken by it. Its like the people who count their money in public on the subway. I don't feel much for them, either.

Many people fall for this. It's a business field were big money is made.

I'm sure that next time he will be more carefull and will read more about scams

I would have fallen for it

One of my friends almost fell for a similar scam.

She meets this guy on a dating site and they start IMing each other. He seems really nice to her and asks her to cash a check for him. He tells her to wait for it to clear BEFORE she gives him any money. He gives her the check and just before she deposits it she asks me (because I used to work for banks) if she should do it. I tell her it is a scam. However, when she called the bank, whatever dumbass she spoke with made it seem like as long as the check clears she will have no problems.

I told her to call that person back and specifically ask what would happen if it was a fake check written on a real account. THEN they tell her she would be liable. Of course, this guy disappeared into the wind after she called him on it. The cops didn't pursue it because she hadn't been successfully ripped off. I guarantee that this guy is ripping off other (too) trusting girls right now.

Classic scam.

See here:

http://www.fakechecks.org

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Holy crap thats gotta hurt, I imagine this would get most people it all seems legit till bingo check bounces.....

Nothing online is free and nothing you get offered online is free.....

Anyone who asks you to pay for a loan in advance is shady. Period.

lol, the guy with the question mark suit right? Matthew Lesko! Years ago when I owned a direct marketing firm, Lesko had us sending mailings for him.

The guy runs around like a lunatic:rainfro

http://www.westernunion.com/info/osM...ferOptions.asp

thank goodness you were there to help him avoid getting ripped off. :(

Alot.

They just started running a funny commercial though where a guy sits down next to another man in a coffee shop and does the whole speal- "I need you to deposit all this money in your bank account and I only need a little back" etc. Then the tag line is something to the effect of- "There is a reason these scams are online, they don't do too well in person."

Pretty funny, don't remember the company or the product though, so maybe not the most effective ad.

Nigerians have been doing that shit for years...

EVERYONE is this thread is RACIST towards niggar-ians except ME

Con artists... the world will always have them.

Con artists... the world will always have them.

dats one for the classics