Victim Location 04730
Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order
I was contacted through Facebook in regards to an add I had placed on the Aroosto9k County Swap, but, and sell group from a lady staying her mother was interested in purchasing tires from me. I was asked to email Amanda Regis if the tires were still available in which I did. I corresponded with amanda via email until yesterday in which we switched to texting. Several text messages back and forth about how she would send a certified cashiers check and then her movers would come and pick them up. Next text changed to increasing the amount of my asking price to include extra money for me holding the tires for her, then that morphed into I would be getting a check that would now include the original price for the tires $850, an extra $100 for holding tires and my time, and money to pay the movers when they came. Today I was texted several times asking and then demanding if I had received the check which had a tracking number. She texted multiple times asking if I had a wells Fargo around to deposit the check today, and then continued with that I needed to western union the movers the money that was owed to them by the end of today. I asked her to call me to discuss the need to have a conversation. I called the number we have been texting to and it is a Google account. I told her that I would not deposit the check until we had spoken and finally told her I knew that she was a scammer and that if she didn’t call me I would report this interaction.
The check that had a tracking number was noted to have a return address of:
Interquest dental group
1311 Interquest pkwy ste 220
Colorado springs, CO. 80921-3834
The check is a cashier’s check from:
Mechanics Bank
2 South Main St.
Mansfield, OH 44902
From the remitter: David Armando