Woman arrested in Nigerian Internet Check Scheme

LauraR · Jun 27, 2008

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/147575

All told, Fiedler sent out US$609,000 worth of phony checks and money orders. When U.S. Secret Service agents investigating the case searched Fiedler's house, they found additional fake checks worth more than $1.1 million that she was preparing to send out.
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So apparantly people do buy that story.rolleyes

scorcer · Jun 27, 2008

This is what gets me about these stories,,

The recipients most likely thought they were helping out someone who needed a person in the U.S. to cash a check for them, according to the U.S. Department of Justice
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They make it sound like there was good intentions involved, well, there wasn't. It was all pure greed.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please, but isn't cashing a check for someone in this manner akin to money laundering?

I believe if the Dept. of Justice started prosecuting these "victims" for partaking in attempted fraud (depositing the check), maybe that would deter the"honest citizens" from "falling" for this scheme.

In Arizona, if you try to cross a wash out in your car and have to be rescued, they send you the bill. Maybe it's as simple as that, send the "victim" the legal bill

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Woman arrested in Nigerian Internet Check Scheme

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