Did anybody cash the united british lotto checks? and if so did it clear?

Question

we had one and it cleared, but we called ftc and they say it might take 6 months to bounce,and you would get stuck with the bill

Answer 1

The checks/money orders will be fake....very good fakes.

You can hand them to a 25yr old bank teller and they wont know the difference.

The checks go in your account.

Your bank "HONOURS" the checks

You send the money to the scammer in Nigeria

The bank sends the check back to the issuing bank (can take up to 6 months)

The Issueing bank refuses to "CLEAR" the check.

Your bank says"Hey...you put in a fake check ....wheres the money?"

You say" I sent it to [insert scammers name here] by western union money transfer(untracable) to that lovely man/woman/both in Nigeria"

The bank says"??? you robbed your own bank???"

You plead Ignorance..."Im innocent" etc

They say "But YOU put the check in our bank...." and you do jail time for bank fraud

"419" scammers....dont ya love 'em

Lotterys work like this:

1)10,000 people pay 1 dollar/euro/pound/yen....etc

The lottery company now has 10,000

2) the lottery company holds a draw and gives out 7,000 in winnings (and keeps the profit 3,000)

Scams work like this:

-1)nobody pays money (there is no money to win)

0)a scammer sends out 10,000 spam emails to tell people they have won a lottery they havn't entered.(they pretend they work for real lottery websites)

2)The Scammer asks for your Personal details (be prepared! your inbox is going to be full of emails asking for you personally...and dont get me started on what they are gonna do with your Bank details!)

3)The scammer tells you that you have to pay fees before you can accept the "winnings" (and NO,you cant pay out of the winnings! they dont exist!....silly maga)

4)The scammer manages to con 3 people out of 1000 and gives all his profits to a charity for orphaned goats (he dosn't really...he keeps it ;) )

5)Your inbox gets more mails than [e-mail]

Everything from "You have won anotther sooperdooperlottry" to    "CHAN U B A NEXT OF KIN" to "Please join our company,cash our checks,send us the money until your bank realises you are laundering money for us?)

The moral of the story is...If it sounds too good to be true... It probably is

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