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2005-10-21 10:16:46 -
received money orders in the amount of $950.00. Checking to make sure these are authentic.
number along bottom of one is : 091900533-46343732654-90
2005-10-20 18:33:01 -
I live in Georgia and I have been chatting online for over a year. on and off maybe about once a month. He tells me a month ago in has a business friend that would like to pay him in money orders and tells me that he would send them to me. He was trying to send me 400.00 from the U.K. but told me. They did not have a western union where he could send. Asked if I banked with Wells Fargo and I said no. so I forgot all about it until I get an IM from him. Stating he will be sending me 5,000.oo As a Gift. I'm from a small town so I'm thinking we pay for the money order and it shouls be no problem but there are. I call the number on the back of the money order and they could not find it and I deposit one in my checking thinking it was just an money order.After no answered on the phone I get online and I find this web site I'm at a lost for words. I have called and talked to them at the back and it want hurt my account. I'm so glad never again....
2005-10-19 21:49:15 -
mine came from someone in the U.K but the walmart money orders are from thailand so bizarre. this was from roomates.com someone who wanted to share a place with me thank God we had got warnings from the site and also from the news the evening i got the money orders i emailed the person back to tell them i was turning it in to FBI wonder if they will email back. what do i do with them can i turn them in to security?
2005-10-19 16:03:36 -
heres the bastards email address has well shakykunsstore@ yahoo.com
2005-10-19 15:19:42 -
heres the email the bastard sent me HELLO BRIAN SYRA,
THANKS FOR CONTACTING ME , AM VERY HAPPY TO HEAR FROM YOU, I WILL LIKE TO INFOMR YOU THAT MY SHIPPING AGENCY WILL COME AND PICK UP THE PUPPY OK SO ALL YOU HAVE TO DO NOW IS TO DEDUCT THE MONEY FOR THE PUPPY AND EXTRA $100 TO YOUR SELF FOR RESERVING THE PUPPY FOR ME , MORE SO YOU WILL SEND THE REMAINING BALANCE OUT TO MY SHIPPING COMPANY VIA WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER TO THEM IN .AFRICA SO THEY CAN COLLECT THE MONEY INCASH AND COME AND PICK UP THE PUPPY SO YOU DONT NEED TO SHIPI OUT THE PUPPY OK, AND THE INFORMATION YOU WILL SEND THE EMONEY TO IS BELOW, MORE SO MY SHIPPING COMPANY CAME DOWN TO AFRICA TO PICK UP SOME GOODS FOR ME AND THEY ARE WAITING FOR THE FUNDS SO PLS MAKE SURE YOU SEND OUT THE MONEY TODAY AND E-MAIL ME BACK WITH THE SENDERS NAME AND INFORMATION MTCN NUMBERS OK.
INFORMATIONS TO SEND THE MONEY>
COMPANY NAME:CEO TRUCK LTD
ADDESS:10, MASSEY STREET,
STATE:LAGOS
CITY:ISLAND
QUESTION:WHATS YOUR MOTHERS NAME
ANSWER:JANET.
THESE ARE THE INFORMATION YOU WILL BE ASKED AT THE WESTERN UNION OFFICE OK, SO MAKE SURE YOU SEND OUT THE MONEY TODAY AND GET BACK TO ME WITH THE MTCN NUMBERS AND SENDERS NAME OK.
THANKS
MICHAEL LAWSON.
2005-10-19 15:13:26 - b
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2005-10-19 15:11:16 -
i was selling dogs in news paper someone got a hold of me through a service called internet relay chat saying they wasnted the puppy that they would be sending me 3,000 1,000 for the dog and 2,000 for the shipping of the dog i was suppose to wire the remaing funds to a shipping company and they would pick the dog up well i went to cash the money order 3 of them to be exact and they where fakes so beware of any nigerian or african people they are crooks and so is there goverment made local police report today and was told the nigerian goverment will not coperate with u.s police agencys so beware people i guess the old say is true if it sounds to good to be true its almost always bogus thanks people
2005-10-19 11:35:22 -
I have been receiving all kinds of e-mails from people claiming to be from nigeria, the united kingdom, you name it. some claim they need me to claim a lost inheritance. some claim the need me as a go-between to cash checks and money orders for them.
I decided to correspond with one and low and behold - a walmart financial money order from WF National Bank South Central,Faribault MN. I have saved the e-mails and the money orders to turn into secret service. good luck guys - oh by the way, I started getting these e-mails after I made an account on e-bay. can you imagine E_BAY!
2005-10-19 10:24:29 -
I was almost a victim of Walmart Money Order Scam and I am glad that I did act fast to stop the payment of the money that goes to Nigeria.
If you want more information about the scam I would be happy to provide you with all the details.
2005-10-18 13:13:25 -
I cannot believe what I'm reading. First, I'm curious as to what happened to attempting to spell correctly. Another subject for another time. I read today about the counterfeit money orders that are being "purchased" at Wal-Mart. If you are a victim of this crime please e-mail me and let me know how I can find out who the money orders came from. My fiance and I just used the money orders to buy a truck. I was not living with him when he recieved the money orders and proceeded to "cash" them to his account. We're having trouble finding a way to recoop the money or, at the very least, press charges on the person who has done this to us. Now, to the dealership we purchased the truck from, we look like the criminals. We bounced a 4,000 dollar check. Oh, yeah. Did I leave that out? He didn't just recieve one money order from one person... he recieve 4 money orders from the same person ("purchased" on the same day)!!! I can't believe the audacity of people today. Trying to hurt/ruin a perfect stranger's life. What did we do that was so wrong?
If you have read this far and you have any more information, please inform me so that my fiance and I can take the appropriate action(s).
Thank You~
Jayde
2005-10-16 19:14:18 -
can american money orders and travelers checks be cashed in Nigeria?
2005-10-16 11:49:16 -
Another SCAM - I posted on Roommates.com to rent out a room in my home in the Denver area. I had several emails that this young woman was from England, coming from Nigeria as she was living there now, or visiting family. I received 6 Walmart Money Orders in the amount of $925.00 each, but before even going to my bank, I called the 800 number on the back of the MO, which is the acutal real number for verifying if these MO's are valid. The NUMBERS, yes, they are valid, however, the ORIGINAL MO's had preveious been cashed like two months before. I then contact the FBI and they said there is really nothing that can be done by them .. anything like this is handled by the Secret Service but even then, because there is SO MUCH INTERNET FRAUD, they probably wouldn't be able to catch those that are involved. If I wanted to report it, that would be fine but most likely, it would take several months before I would even get a reply. But, definately, DO NOT DEPOSIT THEM into your own account(s). I worked in banking for many years and I know that when one opens an account, right on your deposit ticket, it tells you, that the "presenter of any funds" is responsible and that if there is a problem with checks you deposit, the bank is not liable, you are. Just beware of any MO that is for more than $1,000 too. Before depositing any check, verify the funds first.
2005-10-16 08:18:41 -
I Cash a mo from walmart from a woman in Bakesfield ca for 1000 and it cam back a week later I been looking to see how i can get this person for doing it I calles walmart and thier told me to call the State police in my state b/c it is a jail time for her if i proseed with it so i did I call the states police in my state and I am going to press chagers on her I called few times and she never call back So I give her a chance so now she is going to pay for what she did to me and to anyother person
2005-10-16 02:55:08 - baltanray
so HAS anyone actually TRIED to deposited those money orders? what happened? they just bounce and your bank charge you for each of the bounced checks right?
2005-10-15 16:27:32 -
well, looks like my story is just like everybody else's that were posted here
hope no one got scammed into giving their hard-earned $ away
to make the long story short, although it's still quite long:
- we're renting out a room out of our house here in the san francisco bay area, and have just gotten 3 'different' responses from NIGERIA in a row on the same day after we posted up an ad on craig's list. 2 women &1 man, all asking 'separately' to send money order/cheques my way in excess of the deposits required; all having first _last name_year yahoo e-mail addresses; all claiming the people for whom they have worked for owe them money, and they're asking those people to PAY me first, and i'm to send the remaining balance back to nigeria after i've deducted the rent deposits (in my case one person sent me FIVE $1000 checks and i'm 'supposed' to send the remaining balance of about $3000 back to two other people in nigeria).
well, i did receive the checks via FedEX 2 days ago (the FedEX envelope that we've received has NO return address, we cannot even tell who sent it)from one of the women. having worked in the bank as a teller for two years in my college years, i KNOW they just don't look right. so i stopped by my bank and had the bankers look at them. several bankers including the supervisor took a look at the cheques, and after examining them for a while, we all agree that those checques don't look like regular money orders that are normally issued by banks.
there are a few things that don't seem quite 'right' with them:
1. 1st of all the numbers for the dollar amounts on the top right hand side look preprinted instead of printed by a bank check machine at the point of purchase, where it should be crisp and dotted, and usually in black ink; and the print is somewhat blurry, which may indicate inferior counterfeit.
2. the routing number at the bottom is also somewhat blurry, it should be crisp like what is mentioned in 1.
3. the paper feels too thin and flimsy, not the usual paper that are used for checks.
4. Instead of a colored stamp signature that is used for authenticating the checks, it only has numbers, and the numbers are preprinted and in a somewhat blurry blue ink.
finally, what the bank is really concerned with is:
5. they cannot find the PAYABLE bank (WF NATIONAL BANK in faribault, MN) printed on the left side of the bank. that is where the money is supposed to come from once the cheques are deposited. how can a bank not be able to find another bank?
6. we also cannot locate the ISSUER agency (TRAVELERS EXPRESS COMPANY, inc.)
when i called it was just a travel agent, not someone that can offer checks.
due to these reasons above, we were reluctant to deposit the cheques as they show no indication of being real. if we are able to find the PAYABLE BANK & the ISSUER agency and VERIFY them, we'll be more than glad to use the money as deposit for rent! think about it, why would anyone want to turn down real and legit money away?
so that was the story thus far, i've related what i found out about the cheques back to the woman who supposedly wants to rent our room. she wrote back via email several times insisting the money order is real. well, we'll see how this story unfolds as it evolves.
i have all the cheques/names/e-mail addresses and even 2 nigerian physical addresses that i'm supposed to WESTERN-UNION the remaining balance over. i'm not sure if this can be of any help to anyone, but please feel free to post any question up here and i'll answer the best i can within the next week or so, as most likely i'll not check back on this site later.
thanks!
w
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