Steer Clear of this Guy

Rookie - Dont vote- be careful and watch out.
United States
August 6, 2008 12:30pm CST
Morgan Smithfield. Ever heard of him? you will soon enough. This guy gives you an email saying that he needs someone here in the United States to handle his companys money and send it to the UK. and other countries. Well the offer is he sends you money from people here in the U.S and you cash the checks from your bank account. and Western Union it to someone else allowing you to keep 10%. Well i thought okay if there is no money involved that i have to fork over it might be something worth while. so i get my first set of checks sent through UPS. now this guy has even gone as far as having a contract saying that FBI and Interpol will be involved if the money isn't sent and so forth. Anyways. I got my first package. $2850 in checks allowing me to keep $285 of it. I cashed the checks with no problem and went about my day. Mind you i did everything to look into this guys company. when i got home something told me to check again. and low and behold there in the first slot of Google was Morgan Smithfield Textiles and Fabric Ltd. as a fraud. This post was made no more than 3 hours prior to my lastest search. I stopped the transaction and will be getting the money back into the bank so that i wont own the bank or anyone else for cashing fruadulent checks. I know that God was watching out for me yesterday. I also know that if the guy hadnt called me 17 times with a 2 two time span i wouldnt have felt the need to check up on him again. But the real catcher was when i went into the Better Bussiness Bureo to check up i hadnt realized that the name was missed spelled by one letter. Morgan and Morgon. I was lucky unlike the other guy who is now oweing money to his bank. Man it just blows my mind how easy it seemed and how professional he made eveything. I just want you to know not to fall for it. Even though the internet is dangerous there are sites like this one that communicates the evil deeds of others and puts their name out there. SO if you have seen an email or anything like that, IGNORE it. and if you have followed through and havent recieved the packages yet, you might want to just let it go. and tell him at the last minute that you have changed your mind. Any one else out there been scamed this badly before?
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
6 Aug 08
I have always just deleted those emails as I know that most of them are real scams and that nothing ever comes out of them. I am so very glad that you got out so quickly and just in the nick of time. Be cautious next time, and good luck to you!
• United States
6 Aug 08
yeah i felt like a real dumb A$$. i looked him up and everything seemed guinue it was just a blessing that when i felt something weird about him calling so much and went to look it up again- bam there he was a person to avoid. I just hope that someone else who is wondering what this is all about reads that post and steers clear. i will never fall for it again.
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@pitstop (15551)
• Australia
6 Aug 08
Scams - Beware of internet scams and scam emails!
Never, ever fall for the scam emails. I regularly receive similar emails and routinely delete them! Thank God you were saved in the nick of time.