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I have just
encountered an experience as a result of my ad in your system that
you might want to bring to the attention of your customers. I hope
most folks won't fall for their scheme, and to put them on notice
will be effortless but hopefully worthwhile. The e-mail I received
was for the purchase of the 5th wheel trailer I have advertised.
Their scheme is to
send you a check for more than the asking price and you are to
follow up by making arrangements for the pickup of the unit and to
send them your check for the difference between the asking price and
the amount of their check. In my case the difference was $6500.00.
I just played their
silly game and deposited the money only to be plagued for the next
three weeks to send them the $6500. I wasn't about to send them
anything until I knew for sure that this was not some sort of a
scam.
The point I want to
make is that it can take weeks before the worthless check they
issued is returned to your bank. Their schedule is to issue the
check early in the month so it is not presented to the issuing
checks owner until the bank statement and the checks for the month
are received the following month. That gives them up to 30 days.
Then the owner has another 45 days to identify the fact that someone
is issuing checks on his account illegally and report it to his bank
for correction. That means that it could be up to a minimum of 75
days before you are notified that the check you deposited was issued
illegally. I
had my banker call the owner of the issued check (An Electronic
Company out of New York) and his response was that he knew someone
has been issuing checks on his account. The strange thing is that
he had done nothing to close the account so additional checks would
be returned NSF upon receipt by his bank. It was my thought that he
may also be involved in this scam so we reported it to the FDIC who
just happened to be at my bank when this was going on.
I only hope that
somehow this will be investigated and the scam artists caught but
only time will tell.
Sincerely, Les
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