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Heh... I've heard about all those check fraud scams going online, but never thought I would ever seen one of those fraud checks. About two weeks ago, there was an ad in our local help wanted ads for customer service people needed. I called the number (which was out of British Columbia), and they gave me this "phone interview". I was already suspicious of something fishy going on because the call sounded like she was on voice over ip.

Regardless I passed the phone interview, and she said she would send me this packet that would explain the job and so forth. Today I came home from work and the packet was waiting. So I opened it up. On top of the packet was a cashier's check for $2900.00. The packet told me that I was to be a "secret shopper", right? They wanted me to go to a WalMart w/in 48 hours of getting that check deposited and send $800 to some guy named Shawn Hughes in Canada (a relative of mine). The check looks real, and even have anti copy stuff on it. The check was written under Prosperity Bank of Florida and there was an 866 number on the check for the bank.

Smelling the rat well now, I looked up Prosperity Bank online, and found a different number for them. I called it and got an representative on the line. I asked to verify the funds of the check, told them it was a cashier's check for $2900.00. She immediately said, "is it remitted by Wendy Hughes?" Yep. Fraud.

After getting off the phone, I called the number on the check, and got a different recording. This number had an automated system for verifying funds of a check. You punch in the check number and acct number. This system told me the funds were available, heh...

How far to go out of your way to try to rip people off!! First they created false checks, created help wanted ads in the local paper, and (to top it all off) created a false 866 number on the check to make people think the checks were legit.

Nephi wrote:Heh... I've heard about all those check fraud scams going online, but never thought I would ever seen one of those fraud checks. About two weeks ago, there was an ad in our local help wanted ads for customer service people needed. I called the number (which was out of British Columbia), and they gave me this "phone interview". I was already suspicious of something fishy going on because the call sounded like she was on voice over ip.

Regardless I passed the phone interview, and she said she would send me this packet that would explain the job and so forth. Today I came home from work and the packet was waiting. So I opened it up. On top of the packet was a cashier's check for $2900.00. The packet told me that I was to be a "secret shopper", right? They wanted me to go to a WalMart w/in 48 hours of getting that check deposited and send $800 to some guy named Shawn Hughes in Canada (a relative of mine). The check looks real, and even have anti copy stuff on it. The check was written under Prosperity Bank of Florida and there was an 866 number on the check for the bank.

Smelling the rat well now, I looked up Prosperity Bank online, and found a different number for them. I called it and got an representative on the line. I asked to verify the funds of the check, told them it was a cashier's check for $2900.00. She immediately said, "is it remitted by Wendy Hughes?" Yep. Fraud.

After getting off the phone, I called the number on the check, and got a different recording. This number had an automated system for verifying funds of a check. You punch in the check number and acct number. This system told me the funds were available, heh...

How far to go out of your way to try to rip people off!! First they created false checks, created help wanted ads in the local paper, and (to top it all off) created a false 866 number on the check to make people think the checks were legit.

Glad you checked it out and weren't suckered in.

Nephi have you thought about going to a temp service for work?

barrelomonkeys wrote:Glad you checked it out and weren't suckered in.

Nephi have you thought about going to a temp service for work?

I have a job (finally) working for a local photo company. I was doing the temp service work for two weeks. On the 3rd week, I was showing up to the job site 30 mins ahead of time only to find all positions were filled and I would not be working that day. It happened 3 times, at which I gave up. sucks bigtime.

Back to the check fraud thing, I didn't realize how "out of the way" they go to sucker people.

Nephi, just like that check is a fraud, the Mormon church is a fraud, too.

You weren't told the whole truth by the missionaries who converted you. They told you to pray and that your feelings would confirm the truth of Mormonism to you and trust me, just like the sender of that bogus check, the Mormon church hopes people don't "call" to investigate what they're selling, either. The truth is that you weren't given full disclosure when you joined up with the Mormons - no one is.

Nephi, I read your blog entries and I sincerely hope the best for your family. It makes me ill that you feel any pressure at all to give the Mormon church even one cent of money that should all be going to caring for your babies. The Mormon church is rich. They're building malls and they're building temples, which are nothing more than whited sepulchers. They literally are white sepulchres, Nephi! So perfect looking on the outside, but utterly dead inside - people in a religion which is obsessed with the dead and doing work for the dead when they could be doing something productive for the living!

If there is a God, he doesn't want your money. He doesn't need a dime from you and He wouldn't take it if He could! He would want you to take care of your family and give to others when you have enough for your own children. Damn that Mormon church for pressuring people for money who cannot afford to give it!

Sorry for the rant. I just hate to see people being defrauded - especially by religions.

KA

Nephi wrote:I didn't realize how "out of the way" they go to sucker people.

Warning: the irony quotient of this thread is pegged. Overrides are in the process of being engaged.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES~!!!!

KimberlyAnn wrote:Nephi, just like that check is a fraud, the Mormon church is a fraud, too.

You weren't told the whole truth by the missionaries who converted you. They told you to pray and that your feelings would confirm the truth of Mormonism to you and trust me, just like the sender of that bogus check, the Mormon church hopes people don't "call" to investigate what they're selling, either. The truth is that you weren't given full disclosure when you joined up with the Mormons - no one is.

Nephi, I read your blog entries and I sincerely hope the best for your family. It makes me ill that you feel any pressure at all to give the Mormon church even one cent of money that should all be going to caring for your babies. The Mormon church is rich. They're building malls and they're building temples, which are nothing more than whited sepulchers. They literally are white sepulchres, Nephi! So perfect looking on the outside, but utterly dead inside - people in a religion which is obsessed with the dead and doing work for the dead when they could be doing something productive for the living!

If there is a God, he doesn't want your money. He doesn't need a dime from you and He wouldn't take it if He could! He would want you to take care of your family and give to others when you have enough for your own children. Damn that Mormon church for pressuring people for money who cannot afford to give it!

Sorry for the rant. I just hate to see people being defrauded - especially by religions.

KA

No axe to grind here.

KimberlyAnn wrote:Nephi, just like that check is a fraud, the Mormon church is a fraud, too.

You weren't told the whole truth by the missionaries who converted you. They told you to pray and that your feelings would confirm the truth of Mormonism to you and trust me, just like the sender of that bogus check, the Mormon church hopes people don't "call" to investigate what they're selling, either. The truth is that you weren't given full disclosure when you joined up with the Mormons - no one is.

Nephi, I read your blog entries and I sincerely hope the best for your family. It makes me ill that you feel any pressure at all to give the Mormon church even one cent of money that should all be going to caring for your babies. The Mormon church is rich. They're building malls and they're building temples, which are nothing more than whited sepulchers. They literally are white sepulchres, Nephi! So perfect looking on the outside, but utterly dead inside - people in a religion which is obsessed with the dead and doing work for the dead when they could be doing something productive for the living!

If there is a God, he doesn't want your money. He doesn't need a dime from you and He wouldn't take it if He could! He would want you to take care of your family and give to others when you have enough for your own children. Damn that Mormon church for pressuring people for money who cannot afford to give it!

Sorry for the rant. I just hate to see people being defrauded - especially by religions.

KA

I did investigate other sources when investigating the church; specifically anti-Mormon lit. Thanks for the pep talk though.

Nephi wrote:

KimberlyAnn wrote:Nephi, just like that check is a fraud, the Mormon church is a fraud, too.

You weren't told the whole truth by the missionaries who converted you. They told you to pray and that your feelings would confirm the truth of Mormonism to you and trust me, just like the sender of that bogus check, the Mormon church hopes people don't "call" to investigate what they're selling, either. The truth is that you weren't given full disclosure when you joined up with the Mormons - no one is.

Nephi, I read your blog entries and I sincerely hope the best for your family. It makes me ill that you feel any pressure at all to give the Mormon church even one cent of money that should all be going to caring for your babies. The Mormon church is rich. They're building malls and they're building temples, which are nothing more than whited sepulchers. They literally are white sepulchres, Nephi! So perfect looking on the outside, but utterly dead inside - people in a religion which is obsessed with the dead and doing work for the dead when they could be doing something productive for the living!

If there is a God, he doesn't want your money. He doesn't need a dime from you and He wouldn't take it if He could! He would want you to take care of your family and give to others when you have enough for your own children. Damn that Mormon church for pressuring people for money who cannot afford to give it!

Sorry for the rant. I just hate to see people being defrauded - especially by religions.

KA

I did investigate other sources when investigating the church; specifically anti-Mormon lit. Thanks for the pep talk though.

Its not anti-mormon literature. Its Pro-Truth literature.

Get over yourself.

Mercury wrote:

Nephi wrote:

KimberlyAnn wrote:Nephi, just like that check is a fraud, the Mormon church is a fraud, too.

You weren't told the whole truth by the missionaries who converted you. They told you to pray and that your feelings would confirm the truth of Mormonism to you and trust me, just like the sender of that bogus check, the Mormon church hopes people don't "call" to investigate what they're selling, either. The truth is that you weren't given full disclosure when you joined up with the Mormons - no one is.

Nephi, I read your blog entries and I sincerely hope the best for your family. It makes me ill that you feel any pressure at all to give the Mormon church even one cent of money that should all be going to caring for your babies. The Mormon church is rich. They're building malls and they're building temples, which are nothing more than whited sepulchers. They literally are white sepulchres, Nephi! So perfect looking on the outside, but utterly dead inside - people in a religion which is obsessed with the dead and doing work for the dead when they could be doing something productive for the living!

If there is a God, he doesn't want your money. He doesn't need a dime from you and He wouldn't take it if He could! He would want you to take care of your family and give to others when you have enough for your own children. Damn that Mormon church for pressuring people for money who cannot afford to give it!

Sorry for the rant. I just hate to see people being defrauded - especially by religions.

KA

I did investigate other sources when investigating the church; specifically anti-Mormon lit. Thanks for the pep talk though.

Its not anti-mormon literature. Its Pro-Truth literature.

Get over yourself.

Thanks for a hearty belly laugh. I've never seen any of your Pro-Truth literature that didn't contain at least one lie, a verifiable one even.

The Nehor wrote:

Mercury wrote:

Nephi wrote:

KimberlyAnn wrote:Nephi, just like that check is a fraud, the Mormon church is a fraud, too.

You weren't told the whole truth by the missionaries who converted you. They told you to pray and that your feelings would confirm the truth of Mormonism to you and trust me, just like the sender of that bogus check, the Mormon church hopes people don't "call" to investigate what they're selling, either. The truth is that you weren't given full disclosure when you joined up with the Mormons - no one is.

Nephi, I read your blog entries and I sincerely hope the best for your family. It makes me ill that you feel any pressure at all to give the Mormon church even one cent of money that should all be going to caring for your babies. The Mormon church is rich. They're building malls and they're building temples, which are nothing more than whited sepulchers. They literally are white sepulchres, Nephi! So perfect looking on the outside, but utterly dead inside - people in a religion which is obsessed with the dead and doing work for the dead when they could be doing something productive for the living!

If there is a God, he doesn't want your money. He doesn't need a dime from you and He wouldn't take it if He could! He would want you to take care of your family and give to others when you have enough for your own children. Damn that Mormon church for pressuring people for money who cannot afford to give it!

Sorry for the rant. I just hate to see people being defrauded - especially by religions.

KA

I did investigate other sources when investigating the church; specifically anti-Mormon lit. Thanks for the pep talk though.

Its not anti-mormon literature. Its Pro-Truth literature.

Get over yourself.

Thanks for a hearty belly laugh. I've never seen any of your Pro-Truth literature that didn't contain at least one lie, a verifiable one even.

Amen to this... Never have seen ANY "pro-truth" literature that didn't have at least one verifiable lie in it, or half truth.