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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!	Mon, 02 May 2005 10:07

We got a nigerian scammer try to rip us off at work. The guy enquired about a bunch of expensive products supposedly to be delivered to the US and then tried to order via credit card. We promptly told him to get stuffed and send a bank cheque drawn on an oz bank. He then sent a Wells Fargo cashiers cheque for 12,000USD... the stuff he wanted was only $8,000AU so he wanted change via T/T. I banked the cheque and thought f'ck him he can wait until the cheque clears. About a week later I get an email saying he wants the stuff sent to Nigeria. The cheque cleared about two weeks after that and the bank offered our financial controller cash because it was a cashiers cheque but she just signed it over to our bank account. I refused to send the goods despite our operations manager and financial controller telling me I should send them now. About a month later the bank sent us a letter telling us that the cheque had been refused by Wells Fargo and that they had retracted the funds + interest + some BS fee's. We got the cheque back and it had about 20 little stamps on the back showing all the banks it was routed through until it got to Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo were the only ones to realise the cheque was fake and they claimed they knew because the spacing of one of the blocks of numbers down the bottom was about 3mm too far apart. The cheque had a perfect watermark and was in special textured paper and everything. We let the bank take the funds back but told them to shove the fee's and interest up their arse! Amazing that a fake cheque can pass through so many banks before someone realises the cheque is a fake. [Report message to a moderator]

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