Complaint Review: Shawn Reilly - Abington Massachusetts

I had a car for sale on a online auction site. This idiot thought he could offer me thousands over the sale price and have me send the difference to his "shipper". Yeah, like I'm gonna fall for that one after all these years. lol I'm sorry to hear that you fell for that. I would think that if maybe you explained your situation to the authorities, maybe they could grant you at least a little leniency or some sort of payment plan. If nothing else, at least explain to the judge that you were also a victim in this. These scams were taking a lot of people's money. As far as the "job offers", I am now doing what is called scam baiting. It is basically wasting their time. They waste the time and effort trying to get a payment from someone that is never really going to give it to them. You just start making all sorts of excuses why you can never get to the western union office, your horse was sick, the road was washed out, the office was closed for flower beautification day, they really don't know the difference. lol A good place to see examples is 419eater dot com. I see the gov't put that fakecheck site out too. I had to spell it to get by the censors. Maybe it will get left in, maybe not, if it doesn't, then just go to your favorite search engine and type in the term scam baiting and you should come up with the site. The "pro's" have some really great stories and pictures of what they had the idiots pose with sign's saying. It's all fair, I think. I still have the check in my file box in a drawer. I filed a report with the online gov't site about these scams. If they ever ask for it, I'll send it to them, but for now, it'll just sit there, collecting dust. Maybe sites like these will keep at least one person from cashing another of those fake checks.

I was not suprised to find a rip off report regarding this scam. I actually came on this site looking for similar claims. I t was probably the same scenario with you-gettting an email, asking for minimal information, getting another email saying your hired, then you get to keep 10% of the payment and send the cash via Western Union. and then you start getting envelope after envelope with fake travlers checks and money orders. I unfortunately did deposit the first payment of 3,000$ worth of travlers checks, kept the 300.00$ and wired the rest. Now I am facing federal theft by deception or fraud charges because of this and of course going to get sued civialy by my bank for the 3,000$ I look back and can't believe I was so stupid. My mindset was travlers checks and money orders have to be purchased with cash(if there real)., and of course the emails said "this is absolutely lega" I have hired an attorney and hope all goes well and lesson DEFINETLY learned!

I was not suprised to find a rip off report regarding this scam. I actually came on this site looking for similar claims. I t was probably the same scenario with you-gettting an email, asking for minimal information, getting another email saying your hired, then you get to keep 10% of the payment and send the cash via Western Union. and then you start getting envelope after envelope with fake travlers checks and money orders. I unfortunately did deposit the first payment of 3,000$ worth of travlers checks, kept the 300.00$ and wired the rest. Now I am facing federal theft by deception or fraud charges because of this and of course going to get sued civialy by my bank for the 3,000$ I look back and can't believe I was so stupid. My mindset was travlers checks and money orders have to be purchased with cash(if there real)., and of course the emails said "this is absolutely lega" I have hired an attorney and hope all goes well and lesson DEFINETLY learned!

I was not suprised to find a rip off report regarding this scam. I actually came on this site looking for similar claims. I t was probably the same scenario with you-gettting an email, asking for minimal information, getting another email saying your hired, then you get to keep 10% of the payment and send the cash via Western Union. and then you start getting envelope after envelope with fake travlers checks and money orders. I unfortunately did deposit the first payment of 3,000$ worth of travlers checks, kept the 300.00$ and wired the rest. Now I am facing federal theft by deception or fraud charges because of this and of course going to get sued civialy by my bank for the 3,000$ I look back and can't believe I was so stupid. My mindset was travlers checks and money orders have to be purchased with cash(if there real)., and of course the emails said "this is absolutely lega" I have hired an attorney and hope all goes well and lesson DEFINETLY learned!

I was not suprised to find a rip off report regarding this scam. I actually came on this site looking for similar claims. I t was probably the same scenario with you-gettting an email, asking for minimal information, getting another email saying your hired, then you get to keep 10% of the payment and send the cash via Western Union. and then you start getting envelope after envelope with fake travlers checks and money orders. I unfortunately did deposit the first payment of 3,000$ worth of travlers checks, kept the 300.00$ and wired the rest. Now I am facing federal theft by deception or fraud charges because of this and of course going to get sued civialy by my bank for the 3,000$ I look back and can't believe I was so stupid. My mindset was travlers checks and money orders have to be purchased with cash(if there real)., and of course the emails said "this is absolutely lega" I have hired an attorney and hope all goes well and lesson DEFINETLY learned!