New Online Markplace Scam
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Here is a new email scam to beware of should you be contacted by someone claiming to be Rick Johnson or Juliania Gallon. Here’s how it works: You place an ad in the marketplace of facebook or myspace to sell something like say a fleece blanket. Rick Johnson emails you saying he is interesting in purchasing your blanket and that his secretary will contact you to make the arrangements. A few days later you’ll receive another email saying he has found the item somewhere else for less but thanks anyway. Than Juliania Gallon will email you and want to order ten of your blankets. You email her an invoice from paypal but she says she can’t use paypal because she doesn’t have an account. You email her back that she doesn’t have to have an account with paypal to make a purchase and Juliania will than explain by email that she has made a purchase in New York for some furniture and wants to send you the money. She explains in an email that she will send you a check to cover your items and that you are to send the rest by wire to cover the shipping cost of her furniture.
You can tell her no, only send your amount owed but instead you will have a FedEx truck come with a check for $1090 overnight. If you take the check to the bank and deposit it into your account and send the rest of the money on as she requested you just got scammed. The check is a fake, the account doesn’t exist and you will have to pay the money back to the bank. Plus if you fell for this scam you just sent them your items for free and paid for shipping on top of everything.
The Fedex package overnighted with a company name looks like a real business and the check appears real to the average person but your bank representatives know the difference. Never deposit a check like this without verifying it with the bank to make sure it is a real check or you will be responsible for paying it back to the bank. If you get a package like this it may contain a suspicious letter involving emailing an unknown account for further instructions for the rest of the funds sent. Be aware that this is a scam to get you to cash the phony check through your account and then pass the rest on to the awaiting scammer plus you just mailed your own items and paid for shipping to these criminals.
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