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FIB - Scams 101 - Ye Olde Archives
Posted By: Bill Carton - the Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Could this 2 be a Scam (Chanel C Francois)
Monday, 30 January 2006, at 12:17 p.m.
> Soon our partners from the USA will send you a check.
Fake check, to be sure.
> "As well we’ll
> tell you to whom you should transfer the check after the cashing".
Knowing that you'll send the real money to them LONG before the bank returns the fake check as forged.
> I forward it to my son who reads it and and figures it's a scam.
You have taught him well to have a working BS detector!
> If you have questions,please
> check this link http://www.euro-venture.net/faq.html.
Russian scam site.
> i check my mail box and in it were two
> checks (post dated) for $1800.00 each in an envelope with a post mark from
> "Turkey" with only the name of the company (no return address).
Har!
> So now of course i immediately DON'T WANT anything to do with this so i go
> directly to my email to look for a some sort of address to mail the checks
> back to.
Don't bother, they're fake.
> Much to my surprize there is another email from these people
> dated one day after the dated on the check threatening me of disappearing
> with the funds and that they will report me to the US Government (could
> they just).
Har! Har! Tell them to go ahead. Or just go silent. That bothers them FAR worse than any kind of reply.
> Our colleague
> KSENIA ZHELTYAKOVA who is responsible for receiving the cash from Western
> Union is in hospital now.
Tell them their pants are on fire.
> And the system of Western union can't give us out the money.We apologize
> to you for these inconveniences.As you will have to apply to Western Union
> once more we will compensate you 5 from the sum of the check. So, your
> total profit will be 15.Please,make at once changes in other information
> in Western Union".
You know to not do this by now. :-)
> i'm certain that this is some sort of scam.
The authorities are quite busy with these sorts of cons, but the Treasury Department is the typical one to investigate forged checks. You can safely ignore the entire mess, and next time, don't engage international criminals using an email address you might want to use later. They might try some sort of lame revenge harassment on that address, but if they find a new mark, they'll forget you ASAP.
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