They contact you requesting the item you are selling or the service you offer, they say they will pay you more over the amount you want.
They say to take the extra funds they provide and send that to another party, an agent, a shipper, a driver, or someone would processes some fees or taxes. The reason they give can be anything, bottom line is they want you to send off some cash.
You are instructed to wire transfer or use a pre-paid money card like GreenDot or MoneyPak or such to send the funds.
You get a check in the mail, it is either a cashiers check, money order, bank draft, or business check.
So, you do as instructed, cash the check and take the extra funds as cash and transfer it via wire transfer or money card.
After awhile, sometimes several weeks, you find out the check was stolen, a forgery, or counterfeit and is returned. It used faked or stolen account and routing numbers to keep it looping through the banking system until it was ID'ed as stolen/forged/counterfeit.
The money you had sent out, via wire or card, is completely unrecoverable and was really sent to the scammer.
You are out the money you sent, the face value of the check, fees for returned check and overdrafts, and also face criminal charges for passing a bad check.
See:
http://www.fraudaid.com/
http://www.fraudaid.com/solution_center/solution/draftsoption3/4c.htm
It is called a Money Laundering Scam, by which worthless money, the check, is converted illegally into real money, the cash. It is a scam that has been around for as long as money has been around, thousands of years.
It's posting cleaning jobs on Craigslist, send you a check in the mail, asking for you to cash deposit it at your bank keep a certain amount and western union the rest. The check is real and can be cashed, BUT they are stealing the money from a real company!
How dis you find that out that they were stealing the money? What did you do with the check? I too have received one and need to know who it's gets reported too and what kinda trouble I may be in if this is a scam. They actually sent me a address of a business I was to clean when I got there it was a field with no buildings anywhere. This Ph number keeps texting me hounding me about the status of the check. Please let me know
They contact you requesting the item you are selling or the service you offer, they say they will pay you more over the amount you want.
They say to take the extra funds they provide and send that to another party, an agent, a shipper, a driver, or someone would processes some fees or taxes. The reason they give can be anything, bottom line is they want you to send off some cash.
You are instructed to wire transfer or use a pre-paid money card like GreenDot or MoneyPak or such to send the funds.
You get a check in the mail, it is either a cashiers check, money order, bank draft, or business check.
So, you do as instructed, cash the check and take the extra funds as cash and transfer it via wire transfer or money card.
After awhile, sometimes several weeks, you find out the check was stolen, a forgery, or counterfeit and is returned. It used faked or stolen account and routing numbers to keep it looping through the banking system until it was ID'ed as stolen/forged/counterfeit.
The money you had sent out, via wire or card, is completely unrecoverable and was really sent to the scammer.
You are out the money you sent, the face value of the check, fees for returned check and overdrafts, and also face criminal charges for passing a bad check.
See:
http://www.fraudaid.com/
http://www.fraudaid.com/solution_center/solution/draftsoption3/4c.htm
It is called a Money Laundering Scam, by which worthless money, the check, is converted illegally into real money, the cash. It is a scam that has been around for as long as money has been around, thousands of years.
I also answered an ad by this person off of Craigslist, dumb but desperate for money. It was for a car decal job by Monster Energy Drink. I did not get any checks or further texts, but they have my information. Real dumb of me but I needed the money. Next time I will do this and search the number, especially of Craigslist.