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Importance of avoiding scams

Author: Brenda ★2017
Date: 2006-06-13 15:20

In the last week I've had discussions with police departments and bank managers about this. Those of us who haven't yet experienced this should be aware of our personal legal liability in these issues.

In short: I posted an ad for a music book here in the Classifieds and a person e-mailed his intent to buy it. We agreed upon a price, including postage overseas, of $21. US. However the cheque arrived for $6,000. US. Because of seeing the warnings given on this BB I knew right away it was bogus. I contacted my local police department - they told me that they didn't have jurisdiction BUT if I cashed the cheque then they would be interested in ME! Internet research, correspondence and phone calls revealed that the bank account number was valid but the cheque was forged. This is now in the hands of the fraud unit of the London police department. At this moment they're tracing the location of the person through his e-mail address and through the street address he sent me.

So if this cheque were cashed, I would be in legal problems because of participating in theft and/or money laundering since there were actually funds behind the cheque. This has been a good reminder! But thanks to this BB the scam didn't hurt anyone on this side of the Atlantic, except that the rightful owner of the bank account had to close his account.

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