I don't understand the problem here.
1. The femme sends you her check for a hundred grand.
2. You go to a bank where you don't do any other business and open an account.
3. Check arrives; you deposit check.
4. Check clears; you're rolling in dough, or...
4a. Check bounces, you chalk it up to Revenge Against The Great Satan and file charges with the police in whatever Third World pesthole the check came from.
This seems to be a variation on the old scheme of sending the seller a check for more than the proper amount, and asking the difference to be refunded to the "buyer."
I could never see a problem with this, either. All you do is deposit the check that comes in and if it clears, you use part of the money to refund. If they try to hurry you, get anatomical with them.
The only situation that can hurt you here is if you're too much in a hurry. You have to give these international instruments time to bounce around the garbage dumps they come from to insure that nobody is issuing a good check then gutting their account behind it.
Your bank can advise you how to protect against that.
Of course, the absolutely safest way is electronic transfer. But remember...the transferring bank might have very slow internal procedures, so that they think they have the money in the account, whereas the slick operator who initiatied the wire transfer has pulled the money out of the account behind it.
To guarantee against this, simply remember the following Rule Of International Payment:
"It ain't your money until YOUR bank says it's your money."
Dr. R. Beeman
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From: Karl Sutterfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Feb 11, 2007 11:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] BUYER BEWARE - SELLER, TOO
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At 04:28 PM 2/11/2007, DONALD BOWEN wrote:
>My ALON is for sale (see Al's Swap Page) ... a foreign lady from (?)
>wanted to buy the airplane ... she would send me a check for
>$105,000, which I was to deposit it to my bank account ... this was
>obviously a scam, and stopped exchange of e-mails with her ... BEWARE!
An interesting twist ... thanks for the heads-up.
Karl Sutterfield
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