newriverSpecon

If it cleared the bank before wouldn't that mean that someone inside the bank had to be involved in it not being properly stored? If that is the case I would imagine that was not the only one they grabbed.

Randy

dslchk_cowgirl

Randy you are absolutely correct. For it to clear for an amount different than was deposited, someone intercepted the check in route to the other bank. First suspect would be an internal job, especially since so much of it is done electronically now a days.

nirion

I also got a fake cashier's check. It was for the Celica I am trying to sell on here. The amount on the check was twice asking price. I got really suspicious and called the bank (from a number I got online, the number of the check was to a voice mail system that verified the check amount.) and they got back to me that it was fake.
In God we trust, all other's CASH!

Nick

Scotty

I had the same thing attempt to happen to me with the bumpers I was selling on here.
Sounded too good to be true plus I thought is was a laundering deal.
Now it makes even more sense...someone is copying checks and duplicating/altering them.

Scotty

Shovelhead

With the High-Tech scanners and scammers out there today, all they needed to do was print a copy of a real check, cash it, then change the copied check to whatever amount they choose, then mail it to a potential victim.

Vulcan

This stuff really stinks, I too do a lot of business on the net and I and I try to be as careful as I can but a couple of weeks ago I bought something on Ebay only to find out later it was coming from Hong Kong. Oddly enough the only time I've been taken to date is by a guy who was a member and advertiser on this site. I have a collection agency dealing with him now. You can never be too careful.

Marine

Is your ex G/F still single?

spunbearing

When my Mom remarried I met her new husbands brother. He deals strictly in check fraud and identity theft for the govt. in Sacramento Ca. We talked over dinner about all of the fraud going on. He said that his biggest problem is the versa-check software available at any office supply store. They sale checks by the boxes and they are printed using the software. So they don't need to steal checks. All they need is your account number and they can print their own. Scary stuff.

RowJ

Yes...If they list their location!

Personally, I am a little uncomfortable when someone does not.
RJ

Clunk

Now that's interesting. On an overseas eBay sale, the buyer and his connect in this country had problems getting money to me and suggested I give him my bank account number for a bank to bank money transfer. Of course I refused and after the money deadline passed, I reported him as a deadbeat bidder so I could relist the item, which he ended up beating with a one time forgive ebay set up...clown then put bad feedback on me.