Scam?

[TaylorREIGNXXX]

Hey guys so being new to the escort Bussiness I was contacted by a client saying they were going to send me $500 in advance to book which I wasn't gonna dispute. However, upon getting this next email it sounds like a scam. Thoughts?

 

"All is set. My Agent already sent out payment. He dropped the envelope at the nearest UPS drop box. It has being picked up and already in transit.. You would get it soonest

 

There is something i must bring to your notice immediately.The Agent was unable to purchase the money order as agreed but he issued a Check on your name. He said you will have to take it to your bank or any atm near you and have it deposited for 24 hours before it can clear.

 

I think the Agent also misunderstood me when i forwarded your info to him for payment. He mistakenly sent the check of $2000 that was meant for another expatriate's ticket along with your payment.

 

 

I need you to kindly help with the refund of the excess payment as soon as the check clears in your account. Can i count on you? Can you help me send the excess fund after deducting your own payment through money gram transfer?

 

I am willing to offer you the sum of $100 as compensation for any inconvenience i might want to cause you. If i have my way, i will ask for the payment to be re-issued but he had already traveled away. You are my only hope of getting funds to the other expatriate."[\quote]

[+ purplekow]

If it slithers like a snake, do not wait to get bit on the ass before you decide that it really is a snake.

Anyone volunteering to pay without ever meeting you, probably has an agenda. Be careful.

In fact, I would go all Nancy Reagan on his ass and "Just Say No"

[craigville beach]

scam.

[mattr]

Scam... if you get a check, destroy it immediately and cut off all contact with this person....

[+ ArVaGuy]

It's a scam. Don't cash that check or money order. You should cut off all contact with this person and block emails from them.

[Reluctant Daddy]

He didn't happen to be from the Nigerian Royal Family?

[MikeyGMin]

Total scam. You should always trust your gut, but I think this goes way beyond that. It's almost laughably transparent.

 

I hope the "info" he had for you was not your true personal information. If so, no reason to panic, but definitely something you should consider going forward. There is no way a stranger should ever have your real name before ever meeting.

[beachboy]

It's a scam. Don't cash that check or money order. You should cut off all contact with this person and block emails from them.

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[caliguy]

Very classic scam. I had a friend fall for it. Except in his case it was $20,000. He had a business account. He could take out $2,000 for his troubles. They said the same thing. Just wait for it to clear. The bank can take a long time to verify it though. In the meantime the scammers were threatening him by calling day and night to western union it to them. So dumbass did and of coarse all was predictable. He now owes BofA $20,000 plus everything else..

 

The prey on escorts because they know they're very unlikely to go to the police.

[rvwnsd]

As others mentioned this is a scam. In addition to you being "out" the money when (not if) the check bounces, you could be accused of laundering money and/or passing fraudulent checks. If the person stole someone else's identity and bank account information, you could unknowingly be an accomplice to a crime.

 

Cut off all communication with this person and destroy the check when you get it.

EDIT: I take back what I said about destroying the check. Save the envelope and the check and contact the US Postal Inspection Service or the FBI.

[+ glennnn]

Hey guys! I'm thinking Taylor should put the uncashed check some place safe and not destroy it. It is his proof that the sting was perportrated. I don't think just holding it would break any laws and it would give him a bargaining chip should things turn nasty. What do you think? Should he just deny he ever received it if harassed?

[rvwnsd]

I do not see anything wrong with keeping the check in a safe place and not cashing it as long as the check remains uncashed and there is no temptation to cash it should funds be needed in the future. The check will bounce if deposited. Guaranteed.

 

At this point the next steps depend largely on how the check was sent (assuming it was sent):

• Untracked postal mail: There is no delivery record and it can be ignored. Should the sender make contact you simply say "I didn't receive it." Better yet, don't reply.
  
• Tracked postal mail with no signature required: There is a delivery record, but there is no record to whom it was delivered. Postmen make mistakes all the time and deliver to the wrong mailbox. Unattended UPS packages get swiped. "Golly, I didn't receive it" still works. Again, the best approach is to not reply.
  
• Delivery signature required: Simply refuse the package or, if a delivery notice is left, don't make arrangements to retrieve it. The package will be sent back.
  

I hope you don't feel bad for getting ensnared in this type of net. It happens all the time. At least there is a forum like this to ask questions.

[+ not2rowdy]

Almost certainly a scam.

Sounds similar to this one one that my friend received:

http://www.companyofmen.org/threads/nigerian-prince-vegas.107435/

[LADoug1]

Maybe I'm missing something but why not cash the check. If it clears refund $1,400.

[+ WmClarke]

Maybe I'm missing something but why not cash the check. If it clears refund $1,400.

It will take forever to clear and then bounce. By then, the victim has already sent the "refund" and is on the hook for the amount of the check.

[LADoug1]

It will take forever to clear and then bounce. By then, the victim has already sent the "refund" and is on the hook for the amount of the check.

I wouldn't send the refund until the check has cleared and not bounced.

[Kenny]

Maybe I'm missing something but why not cash the check. If it clears refund $1,400.

I wouldn't advise trying to scam the scammer. You will not win.

[+ WmClarke]

I wouldn't send the refund until the check has cleared and not bounced.

Usually the scammer exerts tremendous pressure to get the "refund" ASAP. That's why it usually works. If you can wait out the barrage of pressure, you will end up with ... nothing because the check bounced. Just not worth it.

[Rudynate]

Hey guys so being new to the escort Bussiness I was contacted by a client saying they were going to send me $500 in advance to book which I wasn't gonna dispute. However, upon getting this next email it sounds like a scam. Thoughts?

 

 

This is really innovative. You typically see scams like this with lawyer's trust accounts. Targeting escorts seem like brand new flavor of this scam.

[Rudynate]

I do not see anything wrong with keeping the check in a safe place and not cashing it as long as the check remains uncashed and there is no temptation to cash it should funds be needed in the future. The check will bounce if deposited. Guaranteed.

 

At this point the next steps depend largely on how the check was sent (assuming it was sent):

• Untracked postal mail: There is no delivery record and it can be ignored. Should the sender make contact you simply say "I didn't receive it." Better yet, don't reply.
  
• Tracked postal mail with no signature required: There is a delivery record, but there is no record to whom it was delivered. Postmen make mistakes all the time and deliver to the wrong mailbox. Unattended UPS packages get swiped. "Golly, I didn't receive it" still works. Again, the best approach is to not reply.
  
• Delivery signature required: Simply refuse the package or, if a delivery notice is left, don't make arrangements to retrieve it. The package will be sent back.
  

I hope you don't feel bad for getting ensnared in this type of net. It happens all the time. At least there is a forum like this to ask questions.

 

Someone sent me a check for half a million dollars a couple years ago. The postal service wasn't interested in the check, so I called the fraud investigator at my bank and they were very happy to get it.

[maninsoma]

Maybe I'm missing something but why not cash the check. If it clears refund $1,400.

 

I don't really understand how it works, but even when a check initially appears to be good it can still end up bouncing. So you may think the check you deposited has cleared, and then a month or more later the bank reverses the deposit and advises you that the check was not valid. It's been a while since I read how about these scammers make it so difficult to quickly process a check, but if I remember correctly it has something to do with forcing the check to be manually processed.

[Rudynate]

I don't really understand how it works, but even when a check initially appears to be good it can still end up bouncing. So you may think the check you deposited has cleared, and then a month or more later the bank reverses the deposit and advises you that the check was not valid. It's been a while since I read how about these scammers make it so difficult to quickly process a check, but if I remember correctly it has something to do with forcing the check to be manually processed.

 

They take advantage of the fact that wire transfers are processed very quickly and paper instruments clear more slowly. So the OP would have deposited the check, wired the funds as requested by the sender. The OP would have paid out the amount for the wired funds, and then, when his financial institution presented the check for payment to the issuing bank would have found out that the check wasn't good, leaving him on the hook for the wire transfer.

[Rudynate]

One of the things that is weird about this is that it seems fairly labor-intensive for a small amount of money. Usually, the amounts involved are larg-ish.

[sincitymix]

One of the things that is weird about this is that it seems fairly labor-intensive for a small amount of money. Usually, the amounts involved are larg-ish.

small numbers add up.

[sincitymix]

Hey guys so being new to the escort Bussiness I was contacted by a client saying they were going to send me $500 in advance to book which I wasn't gonna dispute. However, upon getting this next email it sounds like a scam. Thoughts?

If you believe this is real, then you are in luck! I have in my possession the deed.. yes the DEED, for the golden gate bridge which can be yours, yes yours! for the low low one time only price of 500.00 us dollars!

but joking aside, yeah.. its a scam.