Ok so my dad received a check yesterday in the aftrnoon at work from UPS and he had to sign he received it and stuff..He opened it and its this $10,600 dollar check! from some place called HOSTMONSTER and the check came with the adress and a real signature is a REAL check so we dont know what this is about or how it came to his work? Why didnt it come to the house? What should we do contact the police or risk it and cash it? Its a great amount of money we got exiceted but we dont know what to do so what would you do? Or has anyone heard of this company? What is it about? HELP PLEASE
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"We Received A Check? Is It A Fraud Help?" was posted on Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 5:22 am.
I got a check in the US Mail too recently. It was for about $2,500. I didn’t deposit it because it’s not worth the paper it was written on. You will incur bank fees when the check bounces, so don’t deposit it. Throw it away if you do not know where it came from. Mine was for “secret shopping services’ that I was supposed to perform. I laughed my head off. I was supposed to cash the check, send about $2,000 back to them via Western Union (of course – they all use W.U. for their scams) then the rest was my fee. The check would have bounced in a few days, then I’d be out the $2,000 I had sent them. Sounds like they’re upping the ante lately with the $10,600. Next, it’ll be a Million Dollars! HA
I would definetely not trust this. “Hostmonster” seems to be a real company, but whomever sent you the check is probably not from that company. I suggest contacting Hostmonster to help you to sort out this and see if they sent you this or it is all another fraud companyhttp://www.hostmonster.com/contact-us.ht…
That is their contact information. I suggest going for the billing dept and see where that gets you.
Also, read up on check scams:http://www.fraud.org/tips/internet/fakec…http://www.fraud.org/ <—-to report it and get more info
Whatever you do, DO NOT DEPOSIT THIS CHECK!!!
it may well be a scam. tell him to call the police but do not put it in a regular account as they may well try to swipe all the money. Put it in a savings account only for that. In fact any $ over 10k must be reported
If it sounds too good to be true it probably is
put the check in bank clearing to know the answer
scam. note that the scumbag is avoiding the possibility of mail fraud charges by using UPS. USPS will NOT get involved.
Oh my…that is crazy. If its not something he deserves, its likely either an error or a scam. His bank would deposit the check, giving the originators his banking information. I think I would talk to either your local bank about it (do NOT let them deposit it in his account) or the police. Also, there would be tax implications if it is money he takes…or worse, theft if he knows it doesn’t belong to him.
This is becoming more and more popular among scammers. I don’t know how they get these legit looking check to mail out to people. But, they do. If you really want to know if its a real check, do a google search for hostmonster and call them.
Since they used the UPS, it is a postal fraud issue also.