Robert
Rochester,#2Consumer Suggestion
Tue, February 08, 2005
this is a classic scam that has been around... you get contacted (trying to sell something or some such thing). They want to buy (or rent) but its for someone who lives in Africa... they will send you a check for an amount way over what you want... You get to keep a bonus, but you have to send the rest to someone over seas. Problem is... the checks you got are fake and by the time they get bounced you have already sent the money overseas. YOur bank comes after you for a bad deposit you made... you get stuck holding the bag...or the bad checks sorry, you are out of luck.