Internet SCAMS
This topic was created in the Internet forum by sweethearts on Thursday, July 16, 2009 and has 1 replies.
I'm in the middle of one...onbeknowins to me til last weekend.
I've advertised on a free advert site for someone to rent a room in my house and I've had a few people reply. Anyhow one person from South Africa has applied as she is coming to Australia for 5 months and apparently her company is paying all her expenses. So I've told her the going rent per month and she's agreed saying they will send a cheque through the post for the monthly amount and to tell her more about our country.
In the meantime I've mentioned to my friends of my new potential house guest. They have told me it's a scam and that a friend of there's had the same thing happen and then was contacted by the scammer to say that the company has stuffed up and sent too much. Enough to include her airfares plus spending and if she could deposit it in the bank and send back the difference minus the monthly rent. To which she did as the bank had no problem with these travellers cheques. Later on however the bank comes back and you are liable because the cheques are fraudulent!!
So I'm waiting and this morning I get an email onlong those very same lines!!!!! But luckily I've been informed...Not sure whether I would've gone along with it all had I not been...
So I will visit the cop shop and let them know what is happening and find out what can be done. I've played along with her little game and am waiting for the cheque to arrive...
Be warned!!! Has anyone else come across scams like these or friends that have???
I've seen the usual, someone has died and they think you might be related as you have the same last name blah blah or you have won money send a cheque here to blah blah...
I've advertised on a free advert site for someone to rent a room in my house and I've had a few people reply. Anyhow one person from South Africa has applied as she is coming to Australia for 5 months and apparently her company is paying all her expenses. So I've told her the going rent per month and she's agreed saying they will send a cheque through the post for the monthly amount and to tell her more about our country.
In the meantime I've mentioned to my friends of my new potential house guest. They have told me it's a scam and that a friend of there's had the same thing happen and then was contacted by the scammer to say that the company has stuffed up and sent too much. Enough to include her airfares plus spending and if she could deposit it in the bank and send back the difference minus the monthly rent. To which she did as the bank had no problem with these travellers cheques. Later on however the bank comes back and you are liable because the cheques are fraudulent!!
So I'm waiting and this morning I get an email onlong those very same lines!!!!! But luckily I've been informed...Not sure whether I would've gone along with it all had I not been...
So I will visit the cop shop and let them know what is happening and find out what can be done. I've played along with her little game and am waiting for the cheque to arrive...
Be warned!!! Has anyone else come across scams like these or friends that have???
I've seen the usual, someone has died and they think you might be related as you have the same last name blah blah or you have won money send a cheque here to blah blah...
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