Complaint Review: Roommates.com - RACHEL MOWENA - Ontario
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*Consumer Suggestion: Too bad
*Consumer Comment: Common Scam
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I recieved an email from this individual to become my roommate. She sent alot of general information which I didn't question (and I should have!)
I gave her my address and she advised she woiuld send a check to cover my request. All hurry-hurry, by the way.
In a day or two I recieved a cashiers check for $2000 more than I asked for.
As I waited for the initial money to arrive, I gor an urgent email telling me her employer made a mixtake, and would I send the extra back via Western Union.
MY BIGGEST MISTAKE was thinking the check cleared. My bank clears a cashiers check in my own account before they actually collect the money. After seeing the check clear, and withdrawing the money, sending it out like a good person that I am via Western Union. The next day I got a call from the bank to say the check was COUNTERFEIT!!!!!
DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!!! Don't deposit any check which is over the amount agreed to. Send the check back to the sender!!! It is NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to get some stranger out of trouble!!!! They depend on your sympathy!!!!! Tell them they have to correct the problem from their end!!! You can't do that from your end!!!
Assume the worst until proven legitimate!!! My bank has said that since the check was made out to me, I am responsible for the money I withdrew!!! Now I will have to pay that money back to the bank! I am on disability. Not easy.
Before doing anything with someone who is not local, get a name, address, picture of licence, a phone number where they can be reached, and copy of a bank statement with the person's name on it!!! Ask for information on their employer, and LOOK IT UP, Call the employer, too. Then CALL their phone to see if they really answer. It is your right to have this information. Do NOT TRUST. ESPECIALLY if the check they send is more that you expected!!! They have reason to get you to send it back before you find out it is a scam!!! I am 58 years old and I never thought this would happen to me!!!!!
Mommajozy
Burlington, Vermont
U.S.A.
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#2 Consumer Suggestion
Too bad
AUTHOR: Nancy - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, July 18, 2009
Too bad you did NOT follow your own advice. ALL those kind of things are a SCAM. You also are very lucky, the bank COULD have you arrested for passing a counterfeit check. Thank your lucky stars.
#1 Consumer Comment
Common Scam
AUTHOR: ReactorCore - (Canada)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, July 18, 2009
This kind of "money back" scam is very popular on eBay, and it's been common fare there for years.
A buyer will offer to buy your item and pay well over the "buy it now" amount if you'll agree to just send them the overage back. It's in the same realm as the scam in which a seller is selling a vehicle, and you get a notification that someone will send a couple of people around to pick up the vehicle and give you a cashier's check for the price of the car. It's a scam. the "cashier's check" is nothing more than a counter check that's completely worthless. This is also done, as you say, very "hurry hurry".
The headache then starts; in 14 days that "cashier's check" will come back as invalid and you're not only charged back for all the balance on it, but all bank fees as well... It'll ruin your bank account or your credit rating if you can't cover it.
One of the ways to avoid this type of sting, is to have the person meet you at a bona fide financial institution and physically oversee the transaction, be it cutting of a check or the drafting of a money order. If they insist on giving you a check of some kind, inform them that you will not honor it until you have it verified yourself at a bona fide institution.
The bonus of having someone have you at the bank to clear their paper is a nice one though... If they're trying to pull this scam, the bank can arrest them at the teller and you can provide yourself as a witness... Banks tend to dislike it when scammers try to hang bad paper on them.
So, above are just two variations on this scam, and I'm sure there's more. Thing to do with any type of transaction like this, is (as always) ask questions... Why is this person in a hurry? Does their story stand up? Who can provide references? Can their "boss" be reached to verify the alleged "error"? Remember, these people aren't doing you any favors, you're doing THEM one, by renting that space or selling that car, and if they can't abide the time for you to make sure everything's on the up and up, it's probably not. You're under no obligation to NOT jump in blindly, but it's in YOUR best interests to safeguard yourself and YOUR money. You're selling/renting something because you need money, yes, but you don't want to take one step forward and two steps back, right?
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