Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/13/watch-this-voice-actors-exce.html
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Aww, kitty!
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There is a Prince from Nigeria…
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She’s brilliant, I want to hire her! I don’t even know why, maybe she could clear some wire transfers for me…
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just curious…couldn’t you just do this and wait to see if the check clears and if it does, transfer the funds and just ghost them?
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That’s goddamn brilliant.
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They’d void the cheque after a certain period of time, regardless of their mark’s actions.
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The check will NEVER clear.
She did not mention, but I am fairly certain the check would be a fake Cashier’s Check drawn on a Bank.
Your Bank will take these at face value to be real and process them.
Really well-done fake Cashier’s Checks can take up to two weeks to bounce back so the scammer just want to complete the transaction before the bad check gets kicked back to your bank.
The scammer does not have control over when the fake Check is discovered. They just know they have a window of time to complete their mission.
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Exactly this. Checks take time to clear; wire transfers clear immediately. The deficit between the two is the only reason the scam works.
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It took me months via email correspondence to get a scammer to send me a check for the care and feeding of a horse (with excess to be disbursed to their “agent” to arrange for transportation of said horse, of course). I really wanted it made out to Majel Barrett, which they presumably did but then something weird happened.
The scammer’s check was intercepted in the Republic of Benin, some information extracted, and a completely different scammer then sent me their check with their instructions on what to cash and where to send it (2 checks in fact, both for $950, since they wanted to stay under the extra scrutiny potentially triggered by $1k+). Those checks were made out to the addressee (me, at a 3rd party address) rather than the originally requested payee (wife of the late Gene Roddenberry), so that part didn’t work out.
Both documents were fraudulent on their face, but also showed a high degree of complexity: multi-color lithographic press blanks, subsequently passed through both laser and inkjet printers with coordinated account and transaction numbers, etc. They got a lot of crucial things wrong, but a ton of effort went into their game.
The initial scammer was deeply alarmed when someone else’s checks showed up.
I have the whole email exchange somewhere (in which I found a different misspelling for their name at every turn, and could tell when I was passed from a low level groomer to a full time handler), but for the life of me can’t find those checks any more. Hopefully they’re still around here somewhere, the story’s way better with the props.
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Her “tee hee” face is straight out of Serial Mom
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The glee on her face as she stifles her giggles are priceless.
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Would you like help recovering this checks. That will extra money for you. Send small deposit to soon my address, you will recover shortly.
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Years ago I had a roommate who sold a musical instrument on Craigslist, taking a cashier’s check that turned out to be fake for about $1100. He waited until the $$ appeared in his bank account before giving the guy the instrument. Once the money was there he figured everything was cool.
Weeks later the bank told him the cashier’s check was fake and wanted their $$ back. He no longer had it, and he went on some list that prevented him from getting a bank account. He said that unlike regular credit ratings that list doesn’t expire. Oof.
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About 10 years ago I was midway through my apartment lease when I found a house I wanted to buy. I posted on Craigslist List looking for someone to take over the lease.
The only response I got was from a young foreign woman (supposedly). All she needed to do was come to my complex office and I could sign over the contract (provided she passed the background check by the appartment). To keep things simple I was just passing my deposits on so no money needed to transfer.
There was a bunch of email’s back an forth with her asking if it was OK for her to wear skimpy clothes while doing yoga and me naively explaining I didn’t care because I wouldn’t live there. Eventually, she started offering to send me money that I wasn’t asking for and realized (finally) that I was being scammed. By the very end I was convinced I wasn’t even talking with a human. Just a damn bot in my opinion.
That was the last time I used Craig’s List.
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That’s a shame. I’ve certainly seen a few scams there, but all in all it’s a force of good, and the scams are usually pretty obvious. I’ve probably had 1000 transactions on Craigslist over the last 25 years and not one of them has been a bad experience, that I can think of at least.
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I went on an African safari a few months back, and about a month later, got an email purportedly from my tour director, thanking me for my tour and wishing myself and my friends good luck (by our full names). He told me hoped my nephew’s karate classes were going well and that my job was successful. Then he asked me for a small $15k loan to buy a jeep, and outlined the payment terms and his repayment timeline in great detail.
I realized that he was using a new gmail address, so I sent an email to his regular email and he confirmed that this was a scam. I asked the scammer to send a photo of himself holding a sign with some personal info on it, and never heard back.
When I went back through his emails, I realized that all of the personal details he’d included were things anyone could find by googling my name and reading my Facebook page.
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I found my last job on Craig’s list. Unfortunately though after working there for four years I discovered all my paychecks were fake. And my coworkers were cardboard cutouts. Crazy what you can fall for.
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Ha. This explains so much about some of my roommate’s quirks!
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That was the only, outright scam I encountered as best as I can recall. But leading up to it was a series of transactions, each a bit more sketchy than the last. But full disclosure I don’t have a lot of need for such translations. I did recently need to sell a vintage synth and was happy to find a friend is now in the synth reseller business allowing me to avoid directly dealing with CL,Ebay etc… So that was a relief.
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