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« on: October 22, 2013, 04:27:59 pm »Message ID: 808675
Thanks for the heads up...... Several years ago I was a victim of a scam that cost me thousands of dollars and cut of all my income for about 2 months because I was not aware that companies did that (scammed people like that). very long story- short version.... I had entered several sweepstakes and such online and I was informed that I had won somewhere around $200,000 and I received a check in the mail for around $8 or 9,000..... supposedly this was to pay the tax on the money I had won, so I took it to my bank and cashed it then sent the money off.... right after I did this I tried to call the "customer service" number and it had been disconnected....several weeks later I started getting notices from my bank and learned that it was a counterfeit check that I cashed..... they froze both my checking and savings accounts and all my income was direct deposited at the time so it took a while to cancel my direct deposit and start receiving my paycheck and of course I was red flagged and could not open an account anywhere else...... I had to pay back the entire amount of the check which I eventually did, but I still cannot open a regular checking account
A couple years after that I received another check in the mail... completely different but still sounded too good to be true so instead of running to the bank to cash it I took it to a check cashing/payday loan place and asked them about it... Apparently they can check the origin of any check you take in there and tell you whether or not it is legit .. of course it wasn't so now I just throw anything like that in the trash