I'm posting this here I figured this is the most reasonable spot for it, but mods may move it to a better location. This happened on this forum and I need to warn people especially here.
I'm posting this because some guy tried to take me for a ride. A person posing under the name
Lawson Smith tried to rip me off by $1900. I had posted on a forum trying to sell my Volvo. He responded agreeing to the amount and when he sent me the check with the name of
Rovean M. Henderson on it, it was for $1900 more then the agreed amount and told me to Western Union the rest to a
Mr Oscar Brown and
Mr Semiu A Alabi in Nigeria and for their client
Mr Mike Western for the payment of shipping. I had my bank validate the check before cashing it and they told me that
Rovean M. Henderson was real and the account was real but the account was CLOSED BY THE BANK on dec. 29, 2005. So I'm posting this here as well as other forums. My bank recomended contacting the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the company that insures most banks). If you run into anything like this, contact your bank and have them make sure the check is valid before cashing it. The websit to check out for what to do if the check is fraudulant is:
http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/SpecialAlert/2005/sa8205.html 
Fraud Warning!
Jan 11 2006, 11:16 PM
