Complaint Review: Ben Egobia George Terry Usman Dunjam

I was informed last fall that i was the named beneficiary for a lump sum of $30M US dollars. In order to receive this money I had to pay custom charges and other fees. I told the individuals i did not have these funds, thinking this was probably a scam, to pay these fees. After refusing to remint these funds contact stopped for severl months.

Many months later I started receiving more emails and phone calls again from these people. They said they would send me the funds to pay these customs and other charges in the form of a US Treasury check. Days later I received the check from the US Treasury and assumed it must be good, but to be safe I hesitated to use these funds, as I was asked to do, in order to buy time for the check to clear.

After nearly 2 weeks with no return of the check I did as instructed which was to wire money to an account in Canada to cover fees.

Now today, I received a call for the fraud department at my bank saying the check was returned and if they are unable to retrieve the funds I am liable.

There is so much more to this story than I can possible write here but I have documentaion, copies of the checks and a great deal of other information to share.

I guess my real complaint is this: Shouldn't a person feel secure enough with their financial instituion to know that after 2 weeks of cashing a check, the funds are good and available? I mean, just what type of security measure are in place at these banks to insure funds have cleared and are available.

I love to discuss this further with someone in the know.

Thanks for the opportunity to explain my story.

Regards,
Mark
granville, Ohio
U.S.A.