A very convincing scam.

Unless a piece of mail has a name/address that I recognize on it, I generally don't open it at all as a rule. If I think it might have sensitive information on it, I shred it. So no, I don't think I would have been fooled into that.

I've heard of people who have been scammed by things like that, though... wiring money to find that they suddenly had no money at all. It's a scary thought. I'm glad you sent it to the postmaster to help clear things up; good for you!

I am very leary of anything like that....very so I don't think I would have given it a second look if the name or address was off.....I would have sent it directly back to the post office....or remailed it myself. There are alot of scams out there...I wish they would spend their time doing something good with their brains instead of thinking up ways to bilk people!

Wow~ I hadn't heard of that scam yet. Thanks for the warning! Yes, they are getting really clever with how they present their scams to look like they're legit. I also have done mystery shopping for reputable places, so I'm probably on the list too. I check out each and every place I do stuff for, just to make sure they're on the up and up. There are so many doing this kind of thing, they no sooner catch one and there's a new bunch every day. I haven't been fooled yet, but close to it a couple of times. The ones I find I turn in too. Thanks again for the warning!

Beware of those scams. Never deposit a check without making sure that it is from a legitimate source. Fraudulent checks would clear before anyone finds out that there are no funds to back them up. You will end up paying for the bounced check and may even get reported for depositing one. The banks do not have the capability of finding out beforehand which is sad. The burden, of course, falls on the consumer.

Wow! That's crazy! Sometimes I get things like that in the mail. Checks for large amount of money, and my uncle said if you deposit the check, they mess with your bank account and things like that. Its kind of scary because I really thought I got a huge check for sometime, and it was fake! You have to be really careful with things like that!

Unless I am expecting a check from some place specifically, I just send them through the shredder. I have gotten a couple of those. I look it over, shake my head and get rid of it. I kind of thought it was an advertising scheme, never thought about it as mail fraud. I certainly won't shred one like that next time. It will go directly to my postmaster.
Thanks.

It probably would have pal at first, but like you I would have been very skeptical and checked it out, I would have been so disappointed too:( xx

Hi GardenGerty.
I honestly don't know if it would have fooled me or not.
I don't, as a rule, fall for scams of any sort but that is not to say I never will.
Some scams out there as so obviously a scam I don't know how it can fool anyone but some are set up very cleverly and could fool most.
So I can not say it would not fool me but I can hope it wouldn't.
I also would have taken it to the law to check out if I suspected fraud. Susan

Sweets,

Do you remember me telling on here that my son recieved a certified check

for a car he was selling. He was to cash it and pay a person that

would come to get the car...I called the bank it was drawn on and

they said it was a scam!

With seling on ebay I only accept paypal payments!

xoxoxoxoxoxox

Glad you didn't fall for it. Last year we got a check that said we had won an out of country lottery in the amount of 2700.00. The problem was it was a computerized real check on a bank in my state. I knew it was a scam, but wanted to be sure. We took it into the bank and they were surprised it was on a real check with routing numbers and everything. They called that bank and learned that the person who owned that account had been ripped off somehow and the checks were being forged in their name. Thankfully we hadn't tried to deposit it.