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Topic: Counterfeit Money Orders. |
Curt Langston
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 16 May 2005 10:57 am |
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| Geez, they do look good from here. Didja turn them over to the authorities, I hope? |
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Curt Langston
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Posted 16 May 2005 11:05 am
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| Hi Jim. No I haven't yet. I don't think it is worth the hassle. I just did this to show the Forum members what these guys are capable of producing...Will the FBI or anyone else really care? I don't know. I did not send him anything anyway. What I am more mad about is the fact that he thought I would fall for it. |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 16 May 2005 11:23 am
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| How do you know they are fake? |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 16 May 2005 11:32 am
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Will the FBI or anyone else really care?
You bet your bippy they will be interested,
Interstate postal fraud they take seriously.
Gee I lived in Conn, for awhile, never heard o no Fitzgibbon Ct....
[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 16 May 2005 at 12:34 PM.] |
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Curt Langston
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Posted 16 May 2005 11:42 am
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| Hi Earnest. This is the old "I'll send you some extra money for your guitar, then you can wire me back the balance" trick. Peter thinks I am going to cash these at my bank, then send him back 4000.00 via wire transfer. He wanted to "buy" my lap steel that I had posted a while back for 250.00, but he wanted to send me a total of 4250.00. Then he would send an "associate" to come buy and pick up the guitar. In other words, I cash the bogus M.O.'s and send him wire transfer. Then, I get hit with the bad M.O.'s from my bank. [This message was edited by Curt Langston on 16 May 2005 at 12:43 PM.] |
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Charley Adair
From:
Maxwell, Texas, USA
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Posted 16 May 2005 11:48 am
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I wouldn't hesitste to contact the authorities. It's low lifes like these that get to older people that aren't as wise to it as you are.
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 16 May 2005 11:53 am
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| I recently got paid for a gig with postal money orders. They looked OK to me. |
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Mark Herrick
From:
Bakersfield, CA
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Posted 16 May 2005 11:59 am
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Can you see the watermark and the security thread?
[quote]The best way to identify a genuine postal money order, postal service officials say, is to look for the telltale watermark, which, when held up to the light, should reveal an image of Benjamin Franklin. Genuine postal money orders also have a security strip running alongside the watermark, just to the right. If held to the light, a microfiber strip will show the letters "USPS" along its length.[/quote}
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http://www.usps.com/websites/depart/inspect/mofeatur.htm [This message was edited by Mark Herrick on 16 May 2005 at 01:01 PM.] |
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Curt Langston
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Posted 16 May 2005 12:00 pm
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| I believe that Peter Anderson resides in Europe. Not sure though. I'm sure that is not even his real name. The USA address that is on the front of the M.O. is just a dummy address. This is just one reason that it is better to pay for items via credit card if possible. Even PayPal is much safer than this. I knew it was a scam. I really did not think he would send anything anyway. [This message was edited by Curt Langston on 15 April 2006 at 03:43 PM.] |
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Curt Langston
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Posted 16 May 2005 12:01 pm
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| Mark, No I can't but the front has a holographic logo, just like the real thing. |
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Mark Herrick
From:
Bakersfield, CA
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Posted 16 May 2005 12:04 pm
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PayPal ain't that much safer. I just got a bogus email yesterday, supposedly from PayPal, saying I had added an additional email address to my account...
And PayPal is owned by Ebay, the preferred outlet for the sale of anything stolen... |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 16 May 2005 1:40 pm
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| There are known scam pay pal e-mails circuiating. Pay Pal put out a message about them and also noted "real" messages will include your name. The scan pay pal messages do not identify you by name. |
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Mark Herrick
From:
Bakersfield, CA
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Posted 16 May 2005 1:57 pm
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The official PayPal email thanking me for reporting the scam PayPal email didn't address me by my name either...
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 16 May 2005 4:30 pm
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| Isn't the limit of a domestic USPS MO just $700? |
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Bobby Boggs
From:
Upstate SC.
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Posted 16 May 2005 6:25 pm
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| Ben $1000 is the limit.........bb |
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Curt Langston
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Posted 17 May 2005 1:56 pm
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Posted 16 Jun 2005 6:53 am
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 16 Jun 2005 7:41 am
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Sadly, although there are many honest folks out there, there seems to be a current ethic of "get what you can, everybody else is..."
So it's become a Buyer Beware situation, and I suppose we need to just be careful of all our transactions, from the folks who want to buy our guitars, to the folks who want us to support their political agendas.
A good time to keep our eyes open. |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 16 Jun 2005 7:43 am
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Don't even correspond with these crooks. They are dangerous, and their location (usually in Nigeria) puts them beyond the reach of our law enforcement people.
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 16 Jun 2005 2:34 pm
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No, the F.B.I. can't do anything, they are powerless outside of our borders. The C.I.A. could get involved, but they won't because a few thousand dollars of a citizen's money is the least of their problems, and because they can't profit from it (as they do from drug busts). 
And then, when someone "takes matters into his own hands", he's a bad guy.
Go figure. |
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