How to Deal With Fake Cheque Fraud (Real Examples)

Two examples below

Nancy Timmerman

Nancy Timmerman, after responding to an employment ad in the local paper, received a job offer from a company calling itself Secret Shoppers Inc.

Part of the job, she was told, was to check the effectiveness and efficiency of Wal-Mart’s money gram facility. For this, the company sent her a check for nearly $2,700 drawn on Pioneer Federal Credit Union, Nampa Branch.

She was told to cash the check and then send part of the money using Wal-Mart money grams back to the company. She had heard about such scams operating in the internet world. It took time for her to realize such scams can and were being run in the ‘real’ (read offline) world too.

She took the check to the Nampa Branch of the bank. They told her the check was a fraud.

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Brooke

Brooke actually received a check for $2890 from the same place. ‘I knew it was too good to be true, but I went to a check place to cash it because I knew they would check it out and see if it was real. And of course it wasn’t.

They said it was counterfeit, and actually called the cops on me and I explained to them what had happened and they decided not to take me to jail..But they did take me down to the station for questioning. Scared me to death.’

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