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Employee is falling for the Nigerian Scam

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Get a "Moran" t-shirt printed for him. When you find out he's been scammed, make him wear it for a week unless he wants to be fired.
 
Tell him you know a person who works on bank fraud cases and for his safety you want to have the check examined. If you are wrong you'll give him $100. Get him to give you the check. Rip it up, then report back later that day that it was a fake. This is almost guaranteed to work since he's demonstrated himself to be so gullible already.
 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
you can't fix stupid.
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QFT!

All you can really do is warn him. He's gonna do what he wants regardless of what you say. If he falls for it, fire him before he tries to do something similar"for" you.

"But boss, I was trying to make YOU some extra money!"
 
I knew a guy who got double scammed. mr double scammer used the Nigerian scam to scam mr. dummy to pay for a 3-day trip to NYC in order to go to the Nigerian Consulate to pickup his "inheritence". So not only was mr. dummy out the fake check $, and have to deal with all those problems, but he was out $ for the trip AND missed 3 days of work.

What a loser!
 
Originally posted by: Tobolo
Originally posted by: halik
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
I was approached this morning by one of my employees asking if he can leave early sometime this morning to deposit a check into his bank account. He said his girlfriend who he opened a seperate bank account for is sending via UPS a $9,000 check. He didn't tell me at first but apparentley she's from Nigeria. I told him to not cash the check but to rip it up instantly. Even though it's a live check, the funds are fraudulent. He said that he's going to deposit and not touch the check. I told him that even though you deposit it, you're saying that the funds are yours. His peers have told him the same thing but he's not listening to anything.

How the hell do I tell this guy who obviously has no common sense to not depost or cash the check?
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There's noting wrong with depositing it... just don't spend the money.
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Think again. Most states have a deposit fraud law.
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Prove that i knew the check was fraudulent...
 
Originally posted by: halik
Originally posted by: Tobolo
Originally posted by: halik
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
I was approached this morning by one of my employees asking if he can leave early sometime this morning to deposit a check into his bank account. He said his girlfriend who he opened a seperate bank account for is sending via UPS a $9,000 check. He didn't tell me at first but apparentley she's from Nigeria. I told him to not cash the check but to rip it up instantly. Even though it's a live check, the funds are fraudulent. He said that he's going to deposit and not touch the check. I told him that even though you deposit it, you're saying that the funds are yours. His peers have told him the same thing but he's not listening to anything.

How the hell do I tell this guy who obviously has no common sense to not depost or cash the check?
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There's noting wrong with depositing it... just don't spend the money.
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Think again. Most states have a deposit fraud law.
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Prove that i knew the check was fraudulent...
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It doesn't matter. They are gonna get their money.
 
Originally posted by: darkxshade
How convenient the check is just 1k shy of the bank having to report it.
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If he CASHED the check that would be true. You can deposit a check with out the bank reporting you.

edit: and its $1000.01 shy
 
i remember watching a bbc show where they investigated nigerian scams. seems the nigerians are hitting internet dating now as well. roping the fools in with promise of relationship then asking for them to send some money for one reason or another after a while. of course they steal pics from other sites and pose as white people or whatever of course. think the show was called to catch a nigerian love rat.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i remember watching a bbc show where they investigated nigerian scams. seems the nigerians are hitting internet dating now as well. roping the fools in with promise of relationship then asking for them to send some money for one reason or another after a while. of course they steal pics from other sites and pose as white people or whatever of course. think the show was called to catch a nigerian love rat.
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That's exactly what's happening to him. He said they actually met on Yahoo personals.
 
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i remember watching a bbc show where they investigated nigerian scams. seems the nigerians are hitting internet dating now as well. roping the fools in with promise of relationship then asking for them to send some money for one reason or another after a while. of course they steal pics from other sites and pose as white people or whatever of course. think the show was called to catch a nigerian love rat.
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That's exactly what's happening to him. He said they actually met on Yahoo personals.
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lmao

ownzored
 
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i remember watching a bbc show where they investigated nigerian scams. seems the nigerians are hitting internet dating now as well. roping the fools in with promise of relationship then asking for them to send some money for one reason or another after a while. of course they steal pics from other sites and pose as white people or whatever of course. think the show was called to catch a nigerian love rat.
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That's exactly what's happening to him. He said they actually met on Yahoo personals.
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omg...now I know how soap opera can survive for so long...
 
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i remember watching a bbc show where they investigated nigerian scams. seems the nigerians are hitting internet dating now as well. roping the fools in with promise of relationship then asking for them to send some money for one reason or another after a while. of course they steal pics from other sites and pose as white people or whatever of course. think the show was called to catch a nigerian love rat.
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That's exactly what's happening to him. He said they actually met on Yahoo personals.
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Pretty good scam actually. Now that people are wising up, I guess they just fuck random dudes then move over to Nigeria and collect?
 
Show him the Dateline episode where the dude starts talking about To Catch a Predator with Chris Hanson (not knowing that the person he is talking to is Chris Hanson.)

 
Originally posted by: Ns1
update?
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In case anyone cares. He received one of the checks and received more today. The check that came the other day was from Chase. The top said "Certified check" which I thought was fishy. Also, it wasn't even printed correctly as everything was slightly off center. He received two more today from M&T Bank out of New York and each for $3200.00. Those said something along the lines as "Cashiers Check" on the top and were off center in the box. The guy claims that the scammer does not know the bank account numbers. I'm not sure what to think of this all but I feel like I should do something as this is obviously fraudulent.
 
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Originally posted by: Ns1
update?
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In case anyone cares. He received one of the checks and received more today. The check that came the other day was from Chase. The top said "Certified check" which I thought was fishy. Also, it wasn't even printed correctly as everything was slightly off center. He received two more today from M&T Bank out of New York and each for $3200.00. Those said something along the lines as "Cashiers Check" on the top and were off center in the box. The guy claims that the scammer does not know the bank account numbers. I'm not sure what to think of this all but I feel like I should do something as this is obviously fraudulent.
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He's setting himself up for epic failure
 
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