UPDATE!!!!!!! If anyone asks you to cash a check for them....

[Catty1]

I feel the worst for that son. I hope he will be ok.

[Catlady711]

Wow, I hope the police make the charges stick and whoever the person is, will be punished.

I am always suspicious of any check, even from a long time, real world friend anymore. Once when I had my first full time job I asked a friend to come to a club with me because I was given free tickets, but you had to pay for your own drinks/snacks. My longtime friend comes over that evening and says he didn't get to the bank before it closed so he had no money for the club. He writes me a personal check for $20 and I stupidly gave him the money.

Over a week later I get a note from the bank the check bounced and I got charged a $5 fee. My friend came over and I showed him the check. He said he'd make good on it but he had to run home real quick (only lived a few blocks away). Like an idiot I gave hime the check (the evidence) and he never came back, refused to answer his phone, and was convienently never home.

This from a person I had met at school and known for years. Needless to say I never trust checks from people since.

I hope the person who did this to you is prevented from ever doing this to anyone else ever again. Keep us posted on the progress of the situation.