A week or so ago I received a personal check from a woman in Ohio. The  
amount was rather significant, almost $4,000. The check was made payable to me  and 
even had my correct address info on it. 
 
I have no idea who this woman is or even how she got a hold of my address.  
Strange women sending me money in the mail? Sounded like a dream come true!  :-)
 
I went to a bank (not a bank I usually shop at), opened up a new  account and 
deposited this check into it. By the time I had returned home I had  an email 
from some joker in RUSSIA asking me to send them these funds by Western  
Union to them in their country (minus an 8% commission.) 
 
I immediately went back to the bank, closed that account I had just opened  
and retrieved the check which I passed onto the FBI in my home town. 
 
I then replied to this joker's email informing him I was aware of his phony  
scam, had no intentions of sending him anything via Western Union and that  I 
had passed the check onto the FBI. Since then, I have heard nothing from  him.
 
According to this latest scam, these people have U.S checks, U.S money  
orders etc.,
but cannot cash them in their own country so they are looking for folks in  
the USA to
cash these checks and money orders for them, and then transfer the funds to  
them in their own country. Yeah, right.
 
This latest scam really stinks of a money laundering scam to me. Or maybe I  
am just overly suspicious........
 
Watch out!
 
Brian Donaldson. 

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