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Wichita KS police lined up stacks of envelopes and fraudulent checks this morning as a warning to people who may be tempted to participate in scams that involve cashing checks and wiring money. All told, about $250,000 worth of bogus checks, travelers checks and money orders sat on a table in City Hall, and Lt. Hassan Ramzah, a financial crimes specialist, said that if a work-at-home job sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The scams often start in e-mail in-boxes or in job postings, he said. Victims get lured in by promises of $200 a day for working at home. What they’re often really doing is cashing a fraudulent check that sucks money out of an identity theft victim’s bank account, Ramzah said. |
Posted June 9, 2007
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