I got this e-mail from reader Lee who almost got taken by the fake check/tutor scam…
Here’s another incident to add to the list.
Over the past couple of weeks I was in touch with someone claiming to be an Italian business person who was sending a son here to learn better English and needed a tutor.
The odd twist here is that after the check arrived I was to send the remainder of the large amount to a person, who it turned out to be was a real person.
He/she gave me a name and address, so I looked her up on the Internet and called. She felt comfortable calling me back. It turns out that nearly the same thing happened to her recently, but the fake check was identified by her bank.
My question is…how were they going to get the money if she is a real person?
Odd…but I checked it out and now have a souvenir of how gullible I can be…yet I didn’t have to pay the heavy cost of the lesson that might have been.
Thank you,
Lee
It sounds like someone in Nigeria slipped up on how the scam works. Lucky for you their stupidity was your gain. And I wouldn’t say you were completely gullible. You actually stopped before cashing that check.
