09.27.07 One of the Biggest Scams Ever, Watch Out
Yesterday after a long day of work i made my way home and as usual took some time looking over my mail. As i was sorting through my mail of bills and junk i saw an odd envelope from Canada. Almost immediately I jumped to open it because, well, I don't know anybody from Canada. When i opened the letter what did i discover? A check for $4,500.00.

Immediately i reviewed the check. It was definitely made out to me and oddly enough it didn't look like a scam check. Then i dove farther into it. I read the letter attached to the check and it revealed a secret. I felt like a detective going through this.

The letter was clearly not official nor from any sort of high class xerox machine. The text and images were distorted. I could tell it was from a personal ink jet printer. I showed my father and we both had a good laugh about it.

So as i stated before this is a scam. What the people do is get your resume from Monster, Career Builder, Hot Jobs, or Craigslist. They then email you with an exciting position that only requires 4 hours worth of work a week! Oh boy, so now that they have you caught on this they tell you the pay rate. Typically the pay rate is from $1k-10k/week. So now you're thinking you're a damn millionaire. So you send them your information, simple name, address, phone number. Now what you're not seeing is in the header their reply address is different from the email address they used. Why? Because they want you to think they're from some high class organization such as the one's i receive.

So now they have your information and are in the process of creating this fake check. This isn't difficult to do at all. All the scammer really needs is an identity and that identities bank account. So now they go through a printing company who makes custom checks such as Vista Print or if they're really skilled they will use graphic art programs such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Next they send you the check. You receive the check review what you need to do and go to the bank. You deposit the complete check in your bank account and then write a check to whomever the directions stated. This person is of course your scammer. So now that you have sent this person your own physical money a few weeks pass by. You get a phone call from the bank stating there is a problem. Apparently the check you cashed was fake and now you owe the bank. So that $4,500 check you received now becomes negative $4,500. Along with that you must keep in mind you sent the scammer roughly $3,000. So now you're in debt to the bank $-7,500.00. Unfortunately there is no way out.

What can you do
If you receive a letter like this whether it be in mail or email? If it is through email typically you can report it as scam based on your email account. If the letter physically gets to you, you should contact your police department. This is identity theft and you do not want to be charged with that! Try your best to stay away from the whole situation!
Posted by bar@pics.com on 09.27.07 @ 01:55 PM
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