Victim Location 04742
Total money lost $10
Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order
These people contacted my 12 year old son about buying his *** *** on an online classified add. They told him she would like to purchase his *** ***for her husband for their anniversary. This was supposed to be happening in Texas and it was a rush. That’s when I got involved. The whole thing didn’t feel right to me. We finally received a check in the mail from ***Properties I LLC for $1750.00. Told us to take the $500.00 for the drums and $50.00 for holding it for her. The rest of the money was for the shippers. I had asked several times why we were responsible for paying the shippers. I never got a response from them. (All of our communications was through text message. Another red flag) Every question that I would ask her(them) was ignored. So, I put the fake check in the bank and instructed the bank to not make the money available until it actually clears. A few days later it shows up in my bank account as being available. I text these people and told them this. They started answering me. I got their attention now. I told them the money is available and who is going to pay the Western Union Fees. I was told "Calm down you taking it from my money okay". They tell me that I need to send it by Money Gram not Western Union like they had told me before. Also the name and address were different than the one they gave me previously. I was told to never mind those, to send it to the new address. Red flag again. I get to the bank to pull out cash, there was no way I was using my bank cards, to find out that the check was no good and it was being sent back to the bank. Big Huge Scam.