My son got a cashiers check from Nigeria as well for a few thousand dollars. He calle the bank immediately andfound it was bogus. The scammer went on and on about it not being bogus. Then he said that he had gotton someone to get the cashiers check for him, and he was taken for the money by someone else. He kept email for a good month after he was told the check was bogus.
BTW, always call the bank on a cashiers check and verify it is good. There are several rings doing this out of Detroit, Miami, and New York. Generally speaking for a high dollar check from any of those cities or Nigeria and the mid-eastern countries, or any of a list of about 12 other countries, always check the bank, the odds that a chashier's check being bad is higher than a personal check being bogus. Same goes for postal money orders, I know some merchants that will no longer accept postal money orders it has gotten so bad.. I think it is a crime that the banks accept cashiers checks and don't tell you they are bogus until a week later. There is really no excuse for them to not check electronically while cashing them for validity. Marshall lkfields wrote: > > > It is very real. A friend of mine sold a set of snowmobiles. The > cashiers check she got was fake. No, she hadn't sent off the > snowmobile (they never want the goods) but she was out the full amount > of the cashiers check when it was discovered the check was fake.Lori > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > From: S Khanna [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 12:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>scam > > If you want to read something funny about scammers, go to: > www.bustedupcowgirl.com . One woman's story about how she dealt with > them when they claimed to want to buy her horses. Sally
