If you want to read something funny about scammers, go to: www.bustedupcowgirl.com . One woman's story about how she dealt with them when they claimed to want to buy her horses. Sally
Terry Chamberlin <tcj...@yahoo.ca> wrote: Last year, I received an email informing me that such-and-such a business in Europe wanted to do business in Canada, and needed a rep here. They would send me money to pay their clients with, and I would keep a percentage as my commission. (They didn't at this time have any bank accounts here.) I played along, expecting them to ask me for some money of some kind, or my account number, etc. One day UPS showed up at my door and handed me an envelope containing a check, made out to me, for $34,000! My commission was to be $6,000. All I had to do was to deposit it into my account and write a check to a certain person (the client) for $6,000 less. I have a background in tax consulting, and I knew that a deposit of that size would not go unnoticed. I looked up the company that had written the check on the internet, and found it to be a very large, billion dollar a year company with offices in Canada and the US. I had been informed by the people who first contacted me that a Mr. John Hansen (not actual name) had sent me the check. When I called this company (800 number in Cleveland), I was told that, yes, Mr. John Hansen did work for them. I was transferred to him, but he didn't know who I was nor had he written any $34,000 checks. I was later contacted by a security agent for this company, who informed me that 8 checks had been stolen from this company. They had been altered (very professionally) to be made out for much larger sums than originally, plus made out to me (this one, anyway). The agent told me how these checks had been reappearing in the hands of other people. One lady had been told she had won a contest, had deposited the check, sent a smaller sum to the scammers (for "adjustment fees") and spent $5,000 of it, before it bounced. Now she owes the bank $5,000. The agent also told me there was nothing to be done about it. The local police had no authority over a crime originating somewhere else, and no one wanted to spend the money to pursue the scammers all over the continent, indeed, the Europian continent. Had I deposited the check, I would have owed income tax on the whole amount, not just the amount I kept. (How would I have proven it wasn't all mine?) Don't be suckered by these scams. If it sounds to good to be true.... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
