Two Random Amounts of Less Than $100 Into Your Bank Account Please Review Your Bank Records
False checks drive many types of scams – like those involving phony prize wins, fake jobs, mystery shoppers, online classified ad sales, and others. In a fake bank check scam, a person y'all don't know asks you lot to eolith a check – sometimes for several thousand dollars and commonly for more what you are owed – and wire some of the money back to that person. The scammers ever accept a good story to explain the overpayment – they're stuck out of the country, they need yous to encompass taxes or fees, you need to buy supplies, or something else. Simply past the time your bank discovers you've deposited a bad bank check, the scammer already has the money you sent, and y'all're stuck paying the residuum of the check dorsum to the bank.
The Federal Trade Committee receives tens of thousands of reports each yr about fake checks. Over the last three years, the number of complaints has steadily increased, and so take the dollars lost.
The FTC'south new infographic, developed with the American Bankers Clan Foundation, offers some tip-offs to rip-offs and what to do if you get a check from someone you don't know.
Please share this data with others. Victims may be embarrassed to talk about their experiences, but y'all can help. A simple telephone call, e-mail or text, proverb "Expect what I just establish" and sharing this information may brand a deviation in someone else's life.
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211 Comments
May 20, 2020
In respond to I have a very specific by mmteagan (non verified)
Tin you lot let me know how this issue was resolved? I'g in a similar situation currently.
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May 24, 2021
In reply to Tin you let me know how this by Scammed (non verified)
I just received a check in the mail via UPS and it's supposed to be a secret shopper job. They send me a check and than I'm supposed to go to two unlike Walmarts buy iv cards load them they are supposed to be apple cards and so take pictures send it dorsum to them. How do I know if this is a fake cheque or scam?
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November 25, 2019
In respond to You are responsible for the past FTC Staff
What if bank release all the amount on the bank check immediately and institute later it's a fake check? And if information technology was deposited electronically by scammer?
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September 05, 2018
Why is Federal Trade Committee not doing anything to agree bankers accountable for taking checks, and not using technologies to test the check? Banks by now should take high level technologies to prevent Tellers from taking and depositing imitation checks. Who is outsmarting who? Where is the FBI in this? Why are there one thousand of claims but zippo legal is washed to hold Banks responsible, too.
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September 06, 2018
In reply to Why is Federal Trade past WantRealSolutions (not verified)
No such technology exists. The bad guys tin can purchase check stock from any office supply store, enter stolen information into software such as Quickbooks and create checks to transport out. The banking concern accepting the deposit via a teller or mobile deposit through an app has no idea who owns the account or what valid signature should wait like. The bank the check is drawn on will not share information citing their client privacy. So all the banking concern can practise is deposit the bank check and await. The FTC correctly points out that ththe consumer is responsible for knowing from whom they are receiving funds.
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October 03, 2018
In reply to Why is Federal Trade by WantRealSolutions (non verified)
First off a cheque is nada but a hope. It is not as good as cash. Trust me, every bit someone who works for i of the largest credit unions in the U.s., we do everything nosotros tin can to avoid accepting fraudulent checks. What loftier level engineering science are y'all referring to? Due to privacy restrictions, nosotros often cannot confirm that a check drawn off another institution is legitimate or that the funds are bachelor. Financial institutions do not disclose that kind of data to exterior parties. In that location is often cheque fraud where the accounts the checks are drawn off are legitimate but have been contradistinct or forged. A depository financial institution tin can't possibly know if every personal cheque that is accepted has not been forged or altered. There are several things that we look at to brand certain, but ultimately it is up to the consumer as to whether to accept payment as a check. This is the main purpose of placing a concur on the funds until we tin can be sure. This protects both u.s. and the consumer. You should never accept a check from a untrustworthy source. If yous aren't sure, don't immediately spend the money that is made available from the bank check. A check can render for MULTIPLE reasons. They can be faux, forged, stolen, contradistinct, post dated, stale dated, or canceled past stop payment. If y'all are buying from someone you don't know, you're better off using a digital source like paypal or cash. No can't rely on everyone else to protect you lot.
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September 06, 2018
I'm very glad the Chlorofluorocarbon is taking more than and more of a stand (sort of speak) confronting this type of fraud. These people who partake in these scans are relentless. Case; Something very similar I've been going through for more iv years now and something that has no logical reason or explanation for its continuation. If you tin can imagine, I used to enter sweepstakes for about three-4 years. Merely for fun. However I've stopped the last couple years, and told them I was giving up and didn't believe anyone ever wins whatever of their sweeps. Now even To this day I continue to go letters from dissimilar companies who all reference the exact same aforementioned corporeality of unclaimed prize monies on file and registered in my name!50 for over 2m dollars. They all testify the exact same prices. There is no fee to enter, but a small discovery (or administration fee) for their report which they'll send me. It boggles the mind why multiple places would continue wasting their time sending these notices to an individual like me who made it articulate years ago that I would non pay them whatever money. Can anyone else brand sense of it???? In that location are millions of people they could asking money from who don't know what Ive learned. However they go along to come to my mailbox. So beware. Information technology's all so bazaar !!
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September 06, 2018
Most often these fake checks volition not take a bank phone number on them - the scammers don't want you calling the bank the cheque was forged, er, written on to verify. Also check for spelling on the bank check. I saw a check once that instead of Portland, it was Portlund.
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September 06, 2018
I received a phone call from the "Social Security Admin." stating there was fraudulent activity associated with my SS number. I called the callback number, 915-208-4911 and right abroad they wanted my name and SS number. I said practice you recollect I'thousand an idiot? She said no, simply I will call your local police to option you up. I said something I can't repeat here and hungup. A few weeks ago I received an automated telephone call from the "IRS" saying there was a warrant out for my arrest considering I owed them money. I know these are both scams and thought I should tell you. Thanks for the piece of work you are doing.
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September 06, 2018
My female parent, now deceased, then in her seventies, had check scammers go after her twice. Mom kept a shut middle on her accounts and noticed a sizable withdrawal for a check. She did non write a check for this amount and went to her depository financial institution that cashed the check. This was HER bank. They pulled upward the check, and the check had a different address and phone number from her own, and the signature had NO resemblance to her own; only it did accept her banking company number on the check. The bank cashed it. Mom was able to show that it was not she that signed or issued that check, but the bank said they were Just libel for a small amount of the funds they had released. Her funds. The bank said she was just out of luck, and suggested that she call the law. She did then. The police force said this was so mutual there was niggling hope of catching the people who did this. The same people were busy cashing more checks on Mom's accounts, each with a dissimilar address. Mom contacted the constabulary once more. The police force this fourth dimension said they even knew the people doing this just could not motility against them, or would not. In part because the addresses on the checks were from different counties in SC, and that Mom would have to contact each county's police force enforcement and pursue it through each separate canton, one past ane. All this from an one-time woman, half bullheaded and deaf! Though abrupt as a tack. (I personally think that these scammers pick people who are onetime to go after as they are less sure of themselves and less able, with less financial power to pursue them.) Plus with laws like the law told my female parent they had to follow, this made it impossible for an boilerplate person to get justice...from the POLICE, much less the criminal! Mom had changed her business relationship data after she constitute out. Just too late. With laws that allow the banks cash checks without any sort of review of the accost, phone or signature....that just plays into crooks hands also. IF the law made banks liable for the full sum they released, then I bet they WOULD verify any new and unusual information on the checks of THEIR OWN PATRONS.
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September 06, 2018
I only got a call from a "company" who owes me a refund which has closed down, To get my refund phone call 877-957-6417 three times the no. was repeated. I laughed out loud, do they think I am a dummy? Well yes they probably do, but my mom did not raise whatsoever dummies. LOL
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September 07, 2018
There is really no such thing as a "fake" bank check, similar there is simulated currency. The aforementioned newspaper and ink tin can be valid or not. The Bank where a check is deposited has no manner of knowing if the right person signed the check or if the account even exists! The big banks won't verify checks anymore. The only matter a bank can do virtually fraudulent checks being deposited is to know their customer. And then, of class, customers get upset when the bank asks too many questions or places a hold on a deposit.
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September 08, 2018
Received phone phone call from someone in Kingston Jamaca saying I had won five.iii million. Wanted me to open a bank account so they could deposit the money and I could pay the taxes from that account and have the residue for me. Figured it was a scam and didn't follow thru. The telephone # is 1-876-456-6010. Beware the crooked people!!!
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September xiv, 2018
Sometime in October of concluding year, my mom got a phone call and information technology said she was canonical for a $1,500 payday loan. Well, at the fourth dimension I was not working and the money sounded actually expert. So, what happened is that I went along with it and chosen the guys back and they deposited a imitation check into my bank account. Since my mom is co-possessor of that depository financial institution account she cannot have a bank anywhere else than Chase. So, at present I am stuck with Chase until my name is cleared. Information technology sucks, only this was a lessoned learned.
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September 14, 2018
Recentlly receive a check for allowing my vehicle to be used for advetising. I felt funny so I opened a new svaings account and deposted the cheque on Tuesday, Septmenber eleven, 2018, the check still every bit not cleared and receive a text every day asking if the check has cleared. I am sure it's scam merely want to know my next footstep.
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September 17, 2018
Another way to confirm that a bank check is bad is to await at the routing number, 9 digit number, and go online, search bank routing numbers, to check the banking company listed on the check. It won't lucifer.
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December 19, 2018
In reply to Another way to confirm that a by Chris (non verified)
I did this with a check that I simply found out was fraudulent most 3 months after depositing it. Luckily I didn't experience correct nearly it and so the money stayed in the account. When I received the bank check, I literally checked the routing number against the bank on the cheque and it matched upwards. Evidently the check was "altered" somehow to show my name.
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September 20, 2018
I've been mailed a check, only knew better. They posed as a Job offer and I suddenly received a check equally "prepayment". I'm worried they have my address. They proceed calling me then i blocked the number and I got a text from a different one with a threat "yous're in trouble". Practise i need to go a new phone or anything? It's wigging me out.
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October 06, 2018
In reply to I've been mailed a check, but by NACon (non verified)
No, don't waste material your money. Simply block the number y'all get whatsoever letters from...every time. Eventually they will stop because yous are costing them their effort and fourth dimension with no compensation for them. Some cell companies allow one costless number change so u could change your number, but honestly....Merely don't respond and block all msgs y'all even recollect might be a scam or related to one....they Volition go away , sooner rather than after, believe me.
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September 20, 2018
I received a cashiers check from Pharmacare for $2950- and drawn on a existent bank- in a Priority Mail service envelope. Only- every bit y'all know too good to be truthful- I chosen the depository financial institution and the company to inquire why I would be the distributor of this coin- and they said SCAM! I am not sure how the scammer profits from this- simply information technology'south and then real looking. Be SMART- if information technology looks too expert to be true and it comes out of the blue- it's a SCAM!!
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September 25, 2018
So i recently sold a tablet online and this person told me to text them and i did and she gave me her full name and asked me how much i will sell the tablet I said 350 just I lowered information technology downward to 320 to be nice to her and she told me that she will pay me 50 extra she told me that she will transport me a cheque. I waited for a few days and she texted me that the check will be there that twenty-four hours. I recieved the check and I opened the envoloped and information technology had $1700 on the bank check i also constitute a slice of paper that said when y'all receive this check you take to send your total name and cheque number to this telephone number. I did do it i didn't doubtable anything because it was my first time to have a bank check but then i texted her saying that is weird and i texted her that there is more than than what i asked for and she didn't answer until the side by side 24-hour interval or after a few hours and she gave her alibi that she was in a nuptials vacation so and so what happened the other person texted me and told me to deposit the check I did and i received all the $1700 and the person told me to get what i had to receive and i did and and so the person told me to deposit the residue to walmart and it had to exist a 10 minutes eolith i did and i did it and then the tin accept full trust on me and i deposited $1330 and the lady will tell me that the next day a person will come to pick upwards the tablet and she would as well asking to buy her a $100 itunes card and that'due south when my mom told me don't practice it and i gave her a faux excuse that i won't be able to but the card amd she kept on insisting and yes I'm a minor and my mom signed the check and she actually doesn't uses checks at all so she didn't know the cheque was fake then at present we both have this huge problem that the banking concern made an arrest warrant and the bank is accusing us that we did information technology intentionally and we didn't had any clue that it was false so I would like to know what could i do in this situation?
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October 01, 2018
Where tin nosotros file information about a scam names and numbers and such
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October 02, 2018
"If it seems too good to be true"...know that you are responsible for anything you deposit into your account. If something seems questionable, ask your banker or for the advice of your bank'due south fraud department. Be honest about where you got the check, who you lot got it from, if it came with a letter, etc. before having it deposited into your account. Unfortunately, they often target individuals who are down on their luck or are so hard pressed for a phenomenon that they don't appreciate questions from the bank. This is a deep and winding rabbit hole. Not every counterfeit check is obvious; some are very disarming reproductions using legitimate account/routing data. Banks are often victims of having their cashier's checks and money orders copied by scammers. Same with both personal and business accounts. A "cleared" check does non equal a "expert" check because an account holder tin come back and report an item as fraudulent later the funds have been released. Forged endorsements have a fourth dimension frame of 3 years. Other common parts of bank check scams including being asked to purchase souvenir cards and provide the menu information to the culprit who sent you the check. I have even seen several cases in the past several months where the scammers ask for the private'southward online banking credentials. They so utilise those credentials to deposit counterfeit checks via mobile deposit, take advantage of P2P money services such as Zelle that your bank my use, use your online banking to remove or change security features on your account, etc.
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October 03, 2018
I received a bank check concluding week! I asked the bank if it was skillful and said because if information technology's not I can't afford to repay information technology, two people looked at it and said it was practiced! This week I see that information technology was returned and that the depository financial institution is running information technology dorsum through! I pray it'southward good because I don't have that much money and I did cash it out and sent information technology to who information technology was written on behalf of. I tried to go to the bank yesterday but all their electronics were down at all branches! Lots of praying going into this!
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October 16, 2018
I go along get things that I won a contest 50,000 up to 500,000 but I have to pay a fee
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November 04, 2018
I recieved a bank check two days ago in the postal service. How it started: there was a job ad on local Facebook group and I applied with the link they gave me. 2 months afterwards I wake upward to a text maxim I should have recieved a alphabetic character in the postal service with my bank check valued at 3,740 and I need to purchase giftcards valued at 1,000. I chosen my banking company to see what to exercise. They told me to deposit and expect ii weeks without touching the money. If information technology's imitation, they will accept out the money and I'll exist given a $4 fee. Just don't use the money for a few weeks that manner your banking company can flag that check and look out for like ones. Hope this helps.
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November ten, 2018
Tin't you just accept the bank check to Wal-Mart and cash it?
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November 14, 2018
I merely received a cheque for $2,450.35 to participate in a advertising campaign for 'Bud Light Lime'. I am to receive $500 per week to allow them to wrap my car with a brilliant greenish Bud Light Lime display. I am to deposit the cheque and withdraw $1950.35 to give to the person who comes to wrap my auto. Is this a scam???
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January 28, 2019
In reply to I only received a check for by Judie (not verified)
It is admittedly a scam, They volition use any well known make, Rockstar, Monster, Pepsi, and utilize this same scam on a lot of people, there are a limited number of companies that can utilize a wrap to a car and it is not cheap or easy to do. A company like Rock Star but uses their own vehicles to wrap likewise equally their ain employees to bulldoze the vehicle. do non deposit the check and do not respond back to them, block the caller and they will motion on.Oh some other thing I might add together, if y'all are doing a lot of online job searches, or are retired or a senior citizen you are probably a practiced target for this type of scam.
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November 15, 2018
My son trusted a longtime friend that told him about his cousin doing a concern where he would deposit a check in my son's checking account and ane/2 the coin with him. My son had gone through nigh of his coin he had saved for school and did't want to tell united states or ask us for money. So he gave his checking account info to the friend'south cousin who passed it on to her beau. He deposited a $2500 fraudulent bank check and then started withdrawing money. My son'due south account was too linked to his dad's extra account and they made transfers out of it and completely drained both accounts. My son did a stupid affair but had no idea it was going to exist a bad bank check or that they would be able to get to his dad's business relationship. The bank is being really rude maxim he was "involved". He has a 3.0 in college, never been in problem or even had a traffic ticket. He made a really bad decision only he is a victim. WHAT DO We DO??
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December 14, 2018
In reply to My son trusted a longtime by WorriedMom (non verified)
If your son shared other personal data, like his business relationship passwords, engagement of birth, or Social Security number, he could be at risk of identity theft. He can to to www.IdentityTheft.gov and click the "Become Started" button. And then, he can choose "Someone has my information or tried to use information technology and I'g worried about identity theft."
The bank may accuse fees for bounced checks, or close his account. He could talk with the depository financial institution near how to protect his information, or open a new business relationship.
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November fifteen, 2018
I need to written report a scam , I accept already called the bank from which the bank check was writtin on , no such company , that is a fraud bank check . for auto wraps , take cheque did not cash information technology. have all of the text message and phone numbers of person , for auto wrapping , yous make $500.00 a week , merely you as well have to pay the installer , and were including his portion as well , then deposit this check ship me film of total depost slip, then I volition aontact the detailer to come wrap your car , for Smirnoff vodka .
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November 20, 2018
Going on the fourth time since summer. I need a remote task due to disability. I signed up with legitimate job search companies. I received job offers, they ship me a check to cover needed supplies. They endeavour to pressure me to deposit the check immediately. I inform them, every bit soon as I verify the check is valid, I'll be happy to go to work. They typically feign being insulted. How dare I question. Just deposit the check. I e-mail or call the banking concern the funds are to be drawn from. In less than a minute, the bank knows it'due south fake. I used to turn this over to FBI Fraud. Privately informed not much they can practice,merely, keep bringing them evidence. I do savor making the crooks uncomfortable. Just knowing they missed what they thought would exist an easy mark, near makes the annoyance worth it. So, if anyone sends you a cheque, tell them you lot're going to have it verified.
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Dec 03, 2018
Thanks guys for these dandy posts, very informative. Merely got an email about a job that I never applied for, explaining how I was the best candidate to print and mail out payroll checks from habitation. The email went on to explain in this elaborate soliloquy how if I buy a printer n checks they would reimburse me right abroad. They also wanted all my information and jail cell phone number. This is classic check scam, and I think if yous send the information they are really selling and sharing ur name with other scammers. That's how they keep the scamming circumvolve going with simulated jobs, false checks and owing IRS bull crap. I intend on emailing back and asking how they figure I'thousand correct for the chore if they don't even know my concluding name, and supposedly I practical for a job at their company, nope distressing..
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Dec 09, 2018
Watch out for the Jiver Monster Free energy drink scams. My married man cashed a cashier cheque for 1,970.thirty and sent them 2-money orders for 750.00 dollars. At present I'm in the pigsty for 1,970.30. I've got to pay the depository financial institution back this money.
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December fourteen, 2018
I got an e-mail from Walmartsurveyagent @ gmail. com. They sent a cheque for over $2500 & asked that I eolith in within 24hrs. Then, go to a nearby Walmart and buy a money order & souvenir card. Luckily, I looked up secret shopper scams before I moved forwards. Thanks to everyone 1 that commented on this site!
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December 13, 2018
I received a check from Mercury Insurance...The return accost was from Volkswagen of America Group in Auburn, Michigan..The bank check is supposed to exist a prepayment for ad using my car with a large sticker on it..No contact was signed. Matt Call wants me to confirm that I received the check then nosotros tin procede. I am merely a little concerned if this is legit. I don't know where else to plow to find out.
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December 13, 2018
I received a big check in in the mail in return for a survey and proof of souvenir menu purchase. Should I tell somebody near this scam? If so who?
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Jan 03, 2019
I was dumped and kicked out past a long fourth dimension beau moved out of the city and dorsum to my mother's business firm. In that fourth dimension I decided to employ for equally many jobs as I could hoping that something volition come along. I used many job sites nd entered my number many times. A few days past and I get a text proverb we have seen u applied for this job but the position is now filled but we do have another company who we work closely with looking for an function assistant if yous are interested please contact (and they provided the email address). Me being so excited I text the number back explaining I was very interested and asked if they knew the location.. I got no response but i figured they was probably but decorated or it was i of those automated texts. So I just went on to the e-mail. I explained who I am and why I'thousand writing. He asked my proper name if I had whatsoever record. Where I was located all of that only thing I didnt giv was my social. Me being honest explaining I had a record from when I was younger but was used as my Y.O he didnt respond for awhile. After a couple weeks get past he tells me sorry he had business organization meetings but i accept the task. They will send me the funds needed for the job and to take intendance of his flights because he was out of town doing business. He said they will adjust a in person interview as soon every bit he gets dorsum. I asked the location I believe he said the job will not exist office based for now because of his frequent traveling . But I would be as a call on assistant then similar out of office 1 he would merely call when he needed. He said the hours are flexible and I would be paid $600 weekly. I was basically responsible for his scheduling. Flights, programs ect. Me being immature and watching alot of movies and wanting to have that job I see on t.v I agreed. He and so said he sent the funds to start the job and to let him know when they would be available to me its sent information technology via USPS nd I did exactly equally told then I deposited information technology into my banking concern and it took forever till finally I called and I believe they said they accept the funds on hold or something similar that then I got a check in the mail non for the check balance but for my trivial change that was in there b4. I so called again to see what happened and they said they have no account in my name. So I went down to my branch and the guy tried to aid me he said yea I take no account in that proper noun so he tried to open me a new account and he somewhen asked did u deposit a fraudulent cheque.. I said I didnt know it was fraudulent just I deposited a check yes he said at that place y'all get. I said what. He explained that's why he deceit open a account for me. I said is there annihilation I can do I have the emails and message he said no merely you lot cant bank with us anymore I said wow are u serious. I said I had no idea I asked if this would go on similar my tape or something so said then I deceit banking concern with other banks he said no you just cant banking company with united states of america. That blew mines my heart dropped because I take had this bank for awhile now this was my commencement ever bank and I built trust with this depository financial institution. I was also reliant on this bank for my Bill'southward.. so then I was left bankless, cardless, jobless, boyfriendless, and afraid of any other job offers or responses I recieved. The e-mail was a gmail account under "Anthony Nathan"
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December 06, 2019
In reply to I was dumped and kicked out past BadLuckSally (not verified)
I had a like feel with someone calling himself "Charles Fancher". I applied for an assistant job at a constabulary firm, was told the position was filled just another associate was being relocated from Illinois and needed an assistant and then I could work for him if I'd similar. I'd be paid $550 a week to do errands. The first thing that got me feeling weird was when I told him I was in grooming for a full time chore and probably wouldn't have a lot of fourth dimension to work for him and he was perfectly okay with it. He said he had mailed me a check (I'd filled out an application that only asked for my name, address, telephone, e-mail, and driver's license number) and to confirm that I'd received it. It was for $three,480! He texted me multiple times asking to confirm receipt of the cheque, as I was on my way home at the time. That was my second tip off it was a scam. Then I did a reverse telephone lookup on his number and it came dorsum to a New York address, non Illinois equally he'd claimed. When I looked in my mailbox, there was an envelope from California with the check in it that was made out to me, which confirmed it was a scam. I texted him that I had the check, and he told me to deposit it in my business relationship! I refused, and he went silent. Never heard from him again. I reported him to the job search engine I found the job on, the company he was posing as, the local police section, and the Us Postal Inspection Service Mail Fraud Unit. They're sending me an envelope to ship them the check and mailing envelope he used to send the check to me as evidence.
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February fourteen, 2020
In reply to I had a similar experience past Klhesson (not verified)
Thank you for posting this! I simply had a job offer from a Charles Fancher who is seeking a personal banana to take care of some of his business organisation in my surface area. He stated he resided in IL but his wife and 2 children will exist moving to this area before him. He wanted his personal and business move to be an easy transition. I accept spent some fourth dimension trying to obtain information on this "Charles" and stumbled onto this site. Glad I didnt proceed with this "job" opportunity. The pay was definitely too good to be true which made me suspicious from start.
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February 25, 2020
In reply to I had a like experience by Klhesson (non verified)
Omg this only happened to me! Same name and everything. All the info you gave was the aforementioned exact thing. And your post on hither verified what my thoughts were. I couldn't believe there scamming people looking for work! It's sickening. Highly upset and made a report as well.
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January 15, 2019
Question: I did receive a cashier'southward check for $1050 more than my detail'south corporeality. I realized information technology was a scam (fifty-fifty called that depository financial institution, and there were insufficient funds to cover the bank check), but is there anything I should do at present with the check? My accountant said to tear it upwards; someone else suggested voiding information technology and returning it. (Further weirdness:The proper noun on the bank check and the senders address on the FedEx envelope are not the same, and neither one is anywhere near where the 'buyer' said he lives.) Any suggestions? And fwiw, when I showed the check to my ain bank, the teller said, "If this is a fake, it'south the best one I've ever seen." But I'1000 sure information technology's a scam.
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January 28, 2019
any 1 hear about field net global inquiry checks
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July 05, 2019
In reply to any ane hear nigh field cyberspace by cowboy (not verified)
Yes, I received i the other day. Prior to receiving the check, I get a text message stating that they would exist sending it to me. I'm a fiddling concerned that they have both my cell phone # and my address.
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August 22, 2020
In answer to any one hear nearly field cyberspace by cowboy (not verified)
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February 04, 2019
Anyone heard of concentrix cheque scam?
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February 07, 2019
just got a check in the mail ii days ago, it did not feel right the person ask me take I got the check and deposit it . Was waiting for it to articulate in 24 hrs. I told him that I deposit and that it cleared. He ask me if I had cash App or Zelle App I said no he then told me to go to western Union transport it to a detail person. then he modify it to send it somewhere else . He kept texting me to see if I went to the nearest Western Union. I cut my phone off he was still texting to four:00 a.yard. So I told him to stop texting me that my Bank said it is a scam. He contend with me to tell me that his bank said it cleared and I have the money . LISTEN UP Class It IS A SCAM I NEVER STEPPED A FOOT OUT OF MY HOUSE TO TAKE Information technology TO THE BANK. NEVER WENT IT IS A SCAM. IF IT SOUNDS TO Proficient TO Exist TRUE YOU KNOW THAT It IS Non TRUE. I HOPE THIS HELP SOMEONE Information technology WAS FOR A CARWRAP Advertizing FOR COCA COL!!!!!!.
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Source: https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2018/09/anatomy-fake-check-scam?page=1
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