Has anyone got this SCAM where they tell you they will send a westren union check and you send them some $?

Question

They call it a JOB that you do from home and you they will give you MONEY for materials and buy you a lap top as well and they ask your age s*x adress phone number etc. and tell you that they will send a Western Union Money order for about $2100 out of which you keep a certain amount for yourself and send back the REST but it is a BOGUS CHECK and they want YOU to cash if for them so YOU get in all the trouble not THEM..........so watch OUT OK thanks I got an e mail like this from a TONY GIBSON

Answer 1

There was a rash of "mystery shopper" scams a few weeks ago.

The letter would claim that you had been selected to "test" Western Union, so please cash the check, keep $50 and send the rest "back" via Western Union.  The scammers hoped that by calling this a test that peopel wouldn't  tell the WU agents what they were doing (thereby foiling WU's anti-fraud policy) and would cheerfully supply all of the pick up information in their "evaluation" form.

Answer 2

Yes, it's one of the many check scams.

Don't open unsolicited email from unknown sources.  There is NEVER anything of value in such emails.  Opening this spam tells the sender they have a live addy and you will be inundated with more spam.  Sometimes this stuff contains virus and spyware to infect your computer.  Just delete all such emails, unopened and unread.

Answer 3

yes it's a common scam

Answer 4

Tony - you must be the finest dee-teckt-ive on yahoo.

Answer 5

I am currently s******g with one guys head in Nigeria who's trying to get money from me so he can send me millions - right. I've been stringing him along for a couple of weeks and I gave him a fake Western Union number and spelled his name wrong on the pickup info - also had a guy (using a girl's name) send me a fake money order that wanted me to keep 3 months rent (he answered and ad I had for renting a room) and said to send the rest of the money to Canada so he could get his stuff (he said HE was in England) - he stopped communicating after I told him I wasn;t going to follow his directions and I did pass the fake money order info on to the bank whose name the crooks were using - also make another guy in Russia go to the Western Union place twice trying to pick up a fake transfer I "sent" to him - laughed my @ss off - this is great fun stringing these idiots along