Mar 6, 2012
Careful depositing that check...banks make the funds available to you many times before the check actually clears. For example, lets say they sent you a $5000 check...you deposit it and a day later, your account shows $5000 in it. 5-7 days later, the bank finds out the checks a fraud and YOU will be responsible for paying back the $5000, not the person who sent it to you. Theres many examples of this fraud in stories on the internet. Unfortunately I can go to Staples right now and get software and check stock paper and send out tons of legitimate looking false checks if I wanted to. Sending fake checks is very easy...you will be left holding the bag if its fraudulent however. TO me this smells of outright fraud.