Interface Fabrics - Peter Daniel was sent a job offer online thru email. i opened it and there it was this make money quick . i was unemployed , being evicted, no money, had to get a hotel, so i asked the sender a few questions. 2 weeks later i receive $4000 in american express traveller's cheques. i never confirmed this job, or really tought i got this job. so, 2 days later or so i check my email, i have threatening to be contin Phoenix Arizona
Interface Fabrics-peter Daniel sends me a job offer thru my email. i was looking for employment so i opened it hinking it came from monstor.com. it was a get money paid to you quick job which i desperately needed since i was being evicted in a few days. i responded with some questions but, i never confirmed the job. 2 weeks later i get a ups letter with $4000 of american travller's cheques. i didnt do anything with them for a couple of days until i received threatening emails that the fbi will be contacted if i dont get their money wired back to their "diplomat" in england. they called me yelling saying they knew where i lived and so on. i was desperate for money because i needed a hotel room for my diabetic roommate and my dog. luckily i had my daughter at her dad's and she didnt know i was having any money issues. i stayed at 2 hotels. these places i stayed had kitchens, and enough room for my roommate and i and my dog. they also accepted amer. express traveller's checques. i figured 10 would be enough. i paid with the checks, and i was suppose to recive change back. i told the desk clerk not to worry about having to give me back such a lump some because they could just give it back daily since i'd be there awhile. meanwhile, the change i would receive i would have wired back to the "diplomat'. anyways, i checked out and for a month i stayed at a friends, where i put a change of address in and for some reason more came to me. i needed to get out where i was so i checked into another hotel for 3 days. i reserved the room with my credit card, gave my drivers license info, i was shot on camera, i even filled out a comment card and gave my cell number . i checked out 5 days instead of 3. i received change back and told the clerk if she didnt have enough change she could mail it. she had enough change. i than wired it to the "diplomat". 4 months go by and i was arrested. i didnt even know why at first. so, i am being charged with forgery with a written utensil. and theft. i am 39 years old have never even had a speeding ticket and they offered me 4 months in prison with 2 years probation. i am so scared. no one really has heard my story. i even let the police search my house and of course there was nothing. what can i do. can i prove i didnt know they were fake. i even took them to a bank and they never said they looked fake. please i am a single mom, and i have no family to help me can someone give me some advice. thank you
Meishka
phoenix, Arizona
U.S.A.
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Jay_workman
Jax,Florida,
U.S.A.
419 written all over it
#2Consumer Comment
Mon, July 14, 2008
Hey bro, you just got hit with that is called a Nigerian 419 scam. These scumbags hang out on craigslist, ebay...all over. They offer to send you checks for a large amount, then tell you to take what you need and send them the rest. The checks are fake so by the time you cash it, the money is on its way to them and all the while your bank is still processing it. By the time the bank finds out, you get arrested for fraudulent check and they make off with money that was never theirs. You get stuck paying the funds back because you made the transaction, it's ugly. 419 refers to the penal code of the Nigerian government regarding fraud (AFF) but it has become a very profitable worldwide organization.
Think about this, how can they have you arrested if you dont wire their money back? You at the time, didnt cash the checks. Therefore you owe nothing. Bending to their will is how the scam works. They try to intimidate you and scare you into sending money, but they didnt even wire it to you. And diplomat? Come on now, that has suspicion written all over it. Did you ask for an employee ID number for anyone, direct contact numbers through the main company directory, why you were being treated like a leper if you haven't even cashed the checks, where their HQ is located at...any of the above? 9 times out of 10, scammers dont research who they are trying to represent so likely they wont have any valid answers. Best I can tell you is to check out www.419eater.com.
The site is not only comical in its approach to dealing with these crooks, but it sheds alot of light on their scams. it will make you wiser, perhaps help you atleast stay out of jail and maybe just maybe help you recover some of your money. Thats no guarantee, but you will see that you now have alot in common with ALOT of people, myself included. I only got nabbed for 150 bucks and I did get it back, but still...these guys operate in every country and some are very convincing. From bank websites, credit card offers, emails, phone calls...they use every venue they can. If only 2 out of a thousand people send money, hey...they didn't do anything to deserve it and its hard to convict them. Just be glad you didn't get robbed out of more than 4 grand. Others have lost hundreds of thousands, even millions! Good luck to you bro,
Jay