Author: Mike Burrows Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Scanning cheques, was Accessing a scanner via the LAN
Alan Pope wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 08:29 -0600, Mike Burrows wrote:
>
>> The application is depositing scanned cheques into a bank account
>> online, so I'm not sure this would work but I'll give it a try.
>>
>>
>
> This reminds me of some spam I received about 8 years ago. The ruse was
> a multi-level-marketing thing for "cheap phone calls" where you get a
> cut of calls made by your "downline".
>
> I replied to the guy who sent the spam. Yeah, yeah, I know you shouldn't
> ever reply to spam, but this was send from one guy on his own computer
> using a bunch of email addresses he'd harvested.
>
> I clearly told him that the scheme he was proposing woudln't work, and
> more importantly that I wasn't interested. He remonstrated with me over
> email that it did work and that he was expecting a cheque any day now.
>
> After about the 3rd or 4th mail of telling him to "Go Away" he finally
> sent me a scanned in image of a cheque. It was made out to him for a
> fairly modest amount of money.
>
> However all it took was 5 seconds and some average-quality eyesight to
> determine that he had taken a completely different cheque, scanned it in
> and paintbrushed (not photoshopped) the name and amount out and put in
> his own name and some arbitrary value. He even cc:ed his "upline" to get
> more corroboration that this hare-brained scheme would work.
>
> Eventually after considerable mails on my part they went away, but it
> staggered me to think that people might actually believe a scam like
> that.
>
>
> Is that what they're doing Mike? :)
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
> Well I hope not. If they are, then standby for another mega scandle
from the good ol' US of A. This is the bank in question:
