Hi, I have also been fallen into the victims list on the USPS money order scam. I never expected this in my life that money orders too can be counterfited until this happen. Here is the story..
I met a online chat friend , she said she is from Lousiana doing jewellery business. We were used chat often and she kind of became trusted friend.
Then last month she said that she was in nigeria for some business purpose and she needs some money urgently and asked me to cash money orders for her. So she send 4 money order $1K each and encashed it and send it to her. but after a week the bombshell came it my bank found that money orders were counterfit and they deducted $4k from my account and i was shocked and scared by seeing huge negative balance on my bank account. Then i found on internet about these scams and i tried to reach her but no reply from her till today and i hope it'll never be. fortunately i had managed to borrow some money from my friend and paid to the bank.
But i'm still worried that am i legally in trouble even though i haven't done anything illegal. Is there any chance that these people can be caught?
or Is it worth fighting out?
I's not about money, if you lose money you earn earn it again. But the embarresment, it's difficult to live with it. I know i have made a mistake and it's a lesson of my life.
But the heartbreaking part is why the banks are keeping a low profile about these scams atleast they can put a warning notice on each branch or maybe thru emails. I'm going to fight with my bank about this, if i had seen anything like that i would have never fell down as victim. But whatever happend is happend you can't change it back, atleast we can try and help others not to be victimised like me.
I wish and pray that no one will be victimised in future and we provide as much as help as we can to avoid these scam and alert everyone.
Take care..VJ
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