http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/16846698/detail.html

They say they can't trace these guys? The money was wired somewhere...there is a trail to somewhere...Although I find this kinda strange I have heard of this happening before. Rotten bastids that's not right.

one day-> a couple grand in checks arrived

and the plan was to deposit them and send less back

so ->there's your profit...

some of them were postal money orders

so i went up to the post office and showed them to

the clerks and they showed me why they were

bogus... but they looked totally real.

then i contacted the investigator for
the post office. :conf:

This has almost happen to me before...a while back I was selling some electronics on craigslist (first time I ever used or been on a site like craigslist) that I had no use for.

This scammer offered me more then what I was asking (should have figured it out right there but thought maybe it was worth more) and said that he would have someone pick it up but I had to cash the check that was sent to me which was even more then the already higher offer he offered me and mail back the remaining amount of money.

I got out of it right there but the check was still sent to me, funny thing is, is that I was in the shower the other morning and my girlfriend found it in the kitchen cabinet and wanted to know why the hell I had a check for two grand. Should have dropped it off at the police station but never did.

definitely something people have to be very careful for

Unfortunately, some people's BS meters don't work when there's "free" money involed. The worst part about any of these types of scams is that they are perpetrated miles away, maybe even countries away, and you as the scamee have no real recourse except to learn from your mistake.

Well,, just so you guys know,,, When you visit other countries some of them keep your passports until you leave then they give them back,,, How's that make you feel,,,

and Nigeria is one,,,, I still worry about it,,, but then again they could keep it for 2 minutes and make a photocopy or scan it and still have all your info,,,,

There's an old saying among con men---you can't cheat an honest man.

This chick really thought she'd make $500 just for cashing a money order and reporting back on how good the customer service was? :hs:

Like, man, every other word out of her mouth is "like". "It's just so unfair. Like, I don't steal from anybody. Like, to get stolen from me is just the worst" :doh:

I would assume English isn't her major :wall:

Most of these things appeal to the dishonest side of people--like those Nigerian e-mails that invite you to help the sender put one over on a bank in Lagos where some dead guy has $35 million waiting unclaimed.

The latest one is an e-mail from some "Marine" in Iraq who just stumbled on $25 million of Saddam's hidden swag and needs your help smuggling it out of the country :laugha: