I rent out a holiday home via various websites on the net. I had an enquiry for a booking and a price and dates were agreed. Due to the wording etc on the emails, I was a bit suspicious. I checked the persons yahoo account and found nothing. I checked the name and address they gave me and nothing showed up in telephone directories etc. The person said the payment would be sent by cheque through a family member in the USA. Then yesterday I got a email saying that the person in the states had "accidently" written the cheque for the full amount of their holiday. I was asked to cash the cheque and then send them the balance. Obviously, I declined and told them I did not want their business, but what were they getting out of it. It was definately some type of con, but I cant get my head round what they were going to achieve. A very similar thing happened a few months ago. What is the con???|||This is an easy scam. It generally takes about three business days for a check to "clear", meaning that your bank will inform you of a bounced check that you cashed/deposited three days later.
In that time, you would've already given the scammers the "overage" of the check that they "accidentally" wrote, so they'd have your money and be long gone before you get word that their check bounced and the bank is adjusting your bank balance.
You were wise to notice that something was amiss and decline to do business with them.|||I believe they are relying on their bad check not fully clearing until after your check back to them gets into their hands. This happened to a friend of mine and she lost about 1200 dollars. They sent her a bogus cashier's check, which most banks will honor without question. She wrote a personal check back to the person for the "remainder" and it was immediately cashed. 3 days later the bad cashier's check was returned and she was out all of that money plus fees. It's great you did not agree to their scam!! Good job!|||Hi,
this is easy, they where given you a dud cheque and you would have given them some cash for it.|||If the account that the check was written on had been hacked or accessed illegally, then someone writing a check from it could send it to you to be cashed. If you cashed it for them and sent them the balance, they receive money from the account without having to personally try and cash a forged check. You should report it.|||OK dont give them a cent you chances are there are in Nigeria and a trying to scam you i have come across 1 like this and may other when i have been selling on ebay. type in google nigeria scams and loke at all the fourms that come up that a simalar.
hope this helps and stay safe!!|||The con is you send a check for balance, they wash it which can be easily done, and change the amount. The check they send you will take several days to clear and will not be good. You will be charged for all the service fees and find your are overdrawn. If you want to foil them, wait until their check clears if it is good and write the check to them with a roller gel pen. It cannot be washed.|||If I am reading correctly, this is the scam where you THINK you've got their money because it shows up in your bank account, but they can bounce the cheque weeks or even months (which is outrageous) after it seems to have cleared.
So, you send them the money and suddenly a huge amount vanishes from your account because they have taken the money back. Why banks allow this to happen is a mystery to me.|||You did the right thing declining to send them any money. the con is simple. There are many "green" People on the net, and they are hoping that you are one of them, and that you would send them the money in good faith. Good to see you have a good sense of how to conduct yourself.|||sounds to me like they were conning someone by the sounds of it, a family member maybe, they organised it all with you to rent out the holiday home and got their family member to fill in the whole amount on purpose then knowing you would receive it give you some lam excuse that they put the full amount on the cheque and would you cash it and send the full amount back to you thinking that you would do it I take it the cheque was made out to you. but they lost out because you stuffed up their plans.
thats what I think anyway, but I could be wrong.|||Sounds like money laundering. The credit card people block your card if you overpay due to money laundering. My money is clean I never have it long enough to get dirty.|||Maybe the cheque' were stolen and they send the cheques to loads of people who rent out their property payment in full but then ask for the balance to be sent back to them,
if they do this long enough they end up with a nice tidy sum of cash.
but then how can they ask for the balance to be sent back if the payment was correct, for there is no over payment and so there should be no balance or out standing money to send back.
like you say, very strange and it does sound like a con.
maybe if you send back the balance by cheque they then have your details of your name/bank/account number/sort code for a nastie scam and you being the next victim. so be very careful who you rent out your holiday home to.
take care now and always be on the lookout for scams like these.|||The check would have bounced after you sent them the cash. People have tried that scam on me on Ebay. You did good turning them down.|||This definitely looks like some kind of phishing technique...As a guideline donot use cheques as method of payment.. Use credit cards which can be easily verified and cashed..
If they can get a few dollars from you , just realise how much that can make if they do the same thing for thousands of people like you...|||Hi; Yes its a scam and it also happened to me,, What these people do is have you cash the check or money order and then you send them the money before your bank figures out that it is counterfit and after you have already sent the money the bank will hold you accountable for the money amount on the counterfit checks,, Please dont fall for this scam, i done this one time knowing it was a scam and my bank allowed me to do so, And it was indeed a fake money order,,|||Most all of this sort of fradulant activity originates from Nigeria, where the laws are weak and the authorities are easily bribed. Little can be done to prevent it.
To be quite honest, for a poor country such as Nigeria, these internet scams are a major source of "hard-currency"(US dollar, UK pound etc) for their local economy. The officials there simply "look the other way"
About the best one can do is scambait the b@$^@#ds and have some fun in the process.
"So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves."
"It doesn't matter if you are new to this sport or a hardened veteran; if you are wasting the time of a scammer, or frustrating them in any way well that's good enough for us, and we would welcome you to join with our now very large community."
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Enjoy :-)|||Most of the answers above, tells you the con.
Anyone that asks you for money, if you did not register, sponsor, subscribe to anything,accept offers, lets say to a company, and it sends you something, than its a hoax/scam.
It is a con when they talk about someone being poor or asking for money in any form to avoid of the activity being illegal like a bank transfer *which would know all activities of your personal balance account.
So remember, if anyone asks you money in an unconventinal way, report, ignore and move on.
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