Benificiary payments!!!!

United States
January 21, 2009 11:41am CST
Someone has died that has the same last name as me and they want to send me the money from their checking account instead of the government having it. Or they do no even have the same last name but there is a lawyer standing by that will draw up the paper work with me as the benificiary. I get these e-mails all the time!! It drives me bonkers. I know someone that actually took them up on their offers and received like $5,000. Spent it and had a blast. A few weeks after the money was gone he found out that he was in major trouble. He was told that he would have to pay the money back or sit in jail until it was paid off. Down here they give $25 a day for 1 day in jail. That would sure be a lot of jail time. I just wonder how many people have actually fallen for this or something simalar. I know that there is a lot of it going on right now. We have had a lot of articles in our paper at home showing some of the checks that are fake. They look real but are a scam. Usually you are suppose to cash them and then send money back to the person that sent it to you. Most of the time the banks catch them and will not cash them but some of them they do cash. I put this in internet because that is where it has been happening to me. I think the people that are doing this should be jailed for a long time. There was actually a couple in Nettleton,MS that was arrested for this. They got them for all kinds of stuff. They even put them on the news and then 2 days later I saw them at Wal-mart. I bet they really learned their lesson!! If you have been through this and fell for it or know somebody who has just share if you don't mind.
1 response
• Canada
21 Jan 09
I did kind of fall for something like this. I started talking with someone from a chatroom and he ended up making things sound really good and then asked me to cash some cheques for him so I told him to send them to me and what I did was I talked to the bank to make sure they weren't fake cheques. They turned out to be real cheques but fraudulant AND stolen. A few months later I had the police at the door asking me about them. After I told them the story and told them what precautions I did take they did not bother me again.
• United States
21 Jan 09
Wow!! Sounds like you got lucky there. I am glad that the police were nice to you about it. My luck they would have locked me up and said I made it all up!! Have a great day.
• Canada
21 Jan 09
I think it helped that I talked to the bank before I tried to cash it. If I had not said anything they would think I intentionally tried to cash a stolen/fraudulant cheque. Let me tell you I was so scared when the police came to my house. My son was only about 2 yrs old. That had to be the worst day of my life so far, thinking I would lose my life and child because of some cheque that I didn't know was fake but had suspected it.