admin wrote:
Before you even answer the question of WHERE the money orders came from, I want to say that MOST times even when the return address SAYS that if came from some where within the USA, it usually does not. Think about this . . . if you are at home and sending a letter to a friend, you could put what ever return address in the corner that you want . . . no one "verifies" that it is your true address.
The ones that actually are mailed from within the USA are usually a case of a scammer using a middle person who does not even KNOW that they are a middle person . . . (re-shipper scam) . . . these can be people the scammers found at dating sites and formed a relationship with, then asked them "If I send you some money orders, can you distribute them to the right people within the USA for me" or the middle person thinks that they are working a job where they are in charge of accounts/billing for a company overseas . . . the money orders get sent to them and they then send them to the right people within the USA.
My point is, even though you have an address within the USA connected to this person, that does not mean that if you go to the door of that address you will find the scammer.
My point was that if it was mailed from Canada, which many of them are, the local LE would have no jusridiction.
I was framing my response to answer her question about nobody willing to investigate these schemes.