Leif
Elite Veteran
Location: Oxford, PA - USA
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| They told me in the future if i have a check, they can make a call to the bank and verify the funds well i am standing there.
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Still bad information. At the time they call to verify, the money will be in the scammer's bank and the account number will be good. Three days later after the scum have emptied their account and closed it, the check is no longer good. Since neither bank has the money, your bank will get back anything you withdrew against it from the only party who can be located..... that being you. The other guy had a false ID, false address, false everything and was just a front for another unreachable foreign crook.
The communications disconnect between banks for in-process transactions is what the scammers use for this con. They rely on the victim "verifying" the authenticity of the check, but then pull the money out of their end between then and when their bank actually transfers the funds to the other bank. Keep in mind that inter-bank transfers don't happen in small amounts. They aggregate a large number of transactions and then "settle" the differences similar to the way stock brokers settle all of their clients' trades at the end of the day.
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