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

[momcat]

Hey Donna, You did the right thing by getting the police involved. I tend to think this individual knows where that check came from. I worked as a bank teller years ago and remember that we were not allowed to cash a third party check without the manager's approval.

As for Lexie Joon, could any of your rescue contacts maybe be able to connect you with someone in the perp's area that could keep an eye on things and possibly make her go "poof" if things do get out of hand?

[moosmom]

Making her go "poof" is not an option as she takes her EVERYWHERE. They are joined at the hip.

[cassiesmom]

a candle for Moosmom and Lexie: http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/...ng&cid=9690965

[Catty1]

I seem to recall that Lexie turned into a therapy cat for cardiac stuff...though I really don't know if I believe that. Certainly Lexie Joon COULD do that...but I only have the owner's word to go on.

[jennielynn1970]

I was talking to my boyfriend about this scam, and he said you got off a lot easier than 2 people from the town where he grew up. How about this...

Couple agrees to cash check for another friend, only to find out it is a bogus check and that is was one of those "cash this, take so much of the money, and send me the rest of it" deals, and then to find yourself ARRESTED for cashing the bogus check?! They ended up in jail for 3 YEARS. Don't know if there was more involved with their scam, but getting jail time for a check someone else asked you to cash for them, and nothing happened to the other party, that's just wrong.

[moosmom]

No check in the mail yet. Looks like it's time for yet another call to the Police Chief.

[orangemm]

I work in a bank and this kind of thing happens all the time with our clients. They'll come in with checks for thousands of dollars that they "won in a lottery"...except they never entered one!

it's always a scam. One of my best friends went through this a month ago. She was selling a whole bunch of craft items on Craigslist and this guy emailed her that he wanted it all, to take it off the listing, that he was overnighting a check for the entire thing. He was "unaccessable" by phone because he was in North Dakota (huh?).

I told her if she got a check to take it to her bank and have them verify it. Sure enough it was bogus.

Never ever do this for anyone!!! So many people have been ripped off it isn't funny. One woman here lost almost $10,000 because of lowlifes like this.

I'm so sorry you had to go through this, but thankfully you didn't lose a huge bundle. $100 is bad enough, but think if you had done what she asked. Yikes!