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.