Author |
Message |
Breddan Butter
Retired Moderator
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Posts: 4170
Location: Soligorsk, Belarus
|
Posted:
Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:32 am |
|
The term 'cleared' means many things to many people and, as I understand it, has no legal definition in banking terms.
This was an answer to the same question given by a senior bank manager of a UK bank on Eater some time ago.
Quote: |
It is not possible to know for sure after 5 days that a cheque will not bounce.
In the U.K. it can take up to 15 days before a customer paying in a cheque to his account hears from his bank that the cheque has been returned by the bank on which it was drawn.
It is no use whatsoever asking your bank if the cheque has 'cleared'.
You, the member of staff you speak to and the 'Bank' will all put a different definition to the (misused) term 'cleared'.
A bank may 'clear' cheques paid in by allowing you to draw against them on day 1; they may 'clear' them for payment of interest after day 3; they may treat them as 'cleared' for this or that after x number of days but, until the bank on which a cheque was drawn definitely pays it, no one knows if it is 'cleared'.
The customer paying in a cheque only gets to know if it has been 'cleared' by default; ie the passage of sufficient time to allow the bank on which it was drawn to bounce it to your bank and for them to advise you, usually by second class snail mail. |
That information describes the process in the UK and the pitfalls of acting on advice about a 'cleared' cheque.
As I understand it the process is exactly the same in other countries including the US.
However, the US banking system is very much slower and, where the process in the UK usually takes about 15 days, in the US it can take up to 6 months.
For that reason the dud cheque scam works more successfully in the US.
The reason why so many people fall victim to this scam centres around their misunderstanding of the word 'cleared'.
As can be seen in the bank managers quote above, that word means different things to different people yet has no legal definition.
So, initially, when a victim deposits a cheque in his bank account and is told that a cheque is 'cleared' what that really means is that he's free to draw against it until or unless it is, at some time in the future, rejected by the bank on which it is drawn. |
_________________ Можно заплатить кредитной карточкой ?
Пошёл на хуй, мудак !!!
(x4)
My IP address is 217.21.39.255. (86.57.134.49 on Sundays) Please don't come knocking on my door. |
|
|
|
hawkharoldson
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
Posts: 78
|
Posted:
Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:05 pm |
|
|
|
|
scamf18
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Posts: 14
Location: Alberta, Canada
|
Posted:
Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:04 pm |
|
By the way, hawk, did you ever report this scumbag to the proper authorities?
Here's another website he was using:
and another:,
Code: |
www.rsm-capital.com/ |
|
|
|
|
|
H4rry B4lzack
419Eater is my life
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Posts: 306
Location: Depends on the mugu
|
Posted:
Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:21 pm |
|
Huh...no response to my many enqueries about his 'program' leads me to think safe-mail cut off access to his email account
Do I get a cool little sig icon? |
_________________ x5 | x4 x2 | x2 x2
Join me in fighting scammer banks! Click here and run the Lad Vampire now!
"AS I AM WRITING YOU THIS MAIL MIDNIGHT HERE I FEEL LIKE MAKING HOT LOVE TO YOU." -
I love my pony
|
|
|
|
Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 41
|
Posted:
Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:33 pm |
|
Not for the email, since that is standard when taking down a site, anyway.
You will certainly have earned a very well deserved flag(s) when the site(s) go down, though. |
_________________
Fakers: many, many, lots; an SSL and a couple of Resellers.
x 6
AH, AH, AH! Two little ! |
|
|
|
H4rry B4lzack
419Eater is my life
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Posts: 306
Location: Depends on the mugu
|
Posted:
Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:33 am |
|
hehehe... I like flags
Abuse sent (to the registrar, whose site is entirely in Chinese of which I had to GUESS my way around )
I'll work on the other sites in a bit..once I receive my Monty Python video from my lad |
_________________ x5 | x4 x2 | x2 x2
Join me in fighting scammer banks! Click here and run the Lad Vampire now!
"AS I AM WRITING YOU THIS MAIL MIDNIGHT HERE I FEEL LIKE MAKING HOT LOVE TO YOU." -
I love my pony
|
|
|
|
hawkharoldson
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
Posts: 78
|
Posted:
Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:07 pm |
|
I talked with one of Supplier's cashers today, Apparently he finally got a fraudulent cheque in one of his drops.
I also got this email from Susanna Keith offering a job that pays $2,000/week
with this link http://www.fi-money.net/
I noticed Supplier using a different icq # again. |
|
|
|
|
jose_cuervo
Baiting Guru
Joined: 01 Mar 2006
Posts: 8175
Location: Packing Vaseline in my frilly boots, I can’t help if it gets in other places.
|
Posted:
Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:39 pm |
|
/\/\/\ Haven't seen that one before. I found another one that I hadn't seen before as well.
http://www.cs-funds.com/ |
_________________ ~
“I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.” ~ John Steinbeck |
|
|
|
Dirteh Sanchez
Elite Baiter
Joined: 10 Sep 2004
Posts: 1470
Location: Under Parliament somewhere...
|
Posted:
Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:07 pm |
|
its exactly the same phpbb setup.
same db and all.
love it. if we can smash one, the rest will domino. |
_________________ Back and kicking bottom...
________________________
Killed Scammer Banks >200 (gave up counting longgggggg ago.) x5 x2
_______________________________________ |
|
|
|
BobCat
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 04 Mar 2005
Posts: 972
Location: on the 'net
|
Posted:
Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:51 am |
|
H4rry B4lzack wrote: |
Wait, so is this guy seriously doing money laundering right out in the open?! |
It is not money laundering, unless you've received real funds in the first place.
This is a standard fake check/fake transfer scam. |
_________________ --BobCat
"I AM SEEK AND TIRED OF THIS AND I DONT THINK I CAN CONTINUE ANYMORE" Jul13t N0rm@n
"THANKS FOR MAKING FUN OF ME.." "I DIDNT GET ANY F***ING MONEY AND STOP MAKING FUN OF ME.. OK" Jul13t N0rm@n (rebaited from another character)
" I THINK WE HAVE TO PUT END TO THIS GAME,AND REASON WHY I SAID THIS IS BECAUSE I CAN NOT CONTINUE WITH GOING TO WESTERN UNION" Dr Bens0n
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT TAKE TO GET A MAGA IS NOT EASY MAN, IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE CAUSE ME FOR TWO WEEKS NOW I CAN PAY MY HOUSE RENT THEY ARE ABOUT TO SEND MY FAMILY OUT OF THE HOUSE WE LIVE" Dr @d3kun13 Bens0n
"I THOUGHT I HAVE DONE EVERYTHING YOU WANTED WHY ARE YOU STRESSING US OUT." - Mu$@ H0us3
x 24 x1 x2 |
|
|
|
H4rry B4lzack
419Eater is my life
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Posts: 306
Location: Depends on the mugu
|
Posted:
Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:11 am |
|
Is this site finally dead?
And to thyne hidden giver of the pink pony, you deserve my utmost love and appreciation |
_________________ x5 | x4 x2 | x2 x2
Join me in fighting scammer banks! Click here and run the Lad Vampire now!
"AS I AM WRITING YOU THIS MAIL MIDNIGHT HERE I FEEL LIKE MAKING HOT LOVE TO YOU." -
I love my pony
|
|
|
|
Dirteh Sanchez
Elite Baiter
Joined: 10 Sep 2004
Posts: 1470
Location: Under Parliament somewhere...
|
Posted:
Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:13 pm |
|
It's certainly down.
Nicely done
"Know what I mean 'arry.."
Whether it will soon bot again remains to be seen.. |
_________________ Back and kicking bottom...
________________________
Killed Scammer Banks >200 (gave up counting longgggggg ago.) x5 x2
_______________________________________ |
|
|
|
H4rry B4lzack
419Eater is my life
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Posts: 306
Location: Depends on the mugu
|
Posted:
Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:50 pm |
|
haha, yep, I know what you mean
I think sending the abuse several times in Chinese worked |
_________________ x5 | x4 x2 | x2 x2
Join me in fighting scammer banks! Click here and run the Lad Vampire now!
"AS I AM WRITING YOU THIS MAIL MIDNIGHT HERE I FEEL LIKE MAKING HOT LOVE TO YOU." -
I love my pony
|
|
|
|
Vavin
Wannabe Baiter
Joined: 20 Jul 2007
Posts: 93
Location: USA
|
Posted:
Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:57 am |
|
Ok OK I am new and I AM reading the stickies.. I promise. But I have questions, if you guys don't mind.
1) when a check cashing scam comes in - what kind of address - physical address do you give the lads when they send you the false checks? I have a character who is located in a different country than where I actually live (I'm allegedly up near the North Pole) - so how do you get the actual checks w/o revealing where you are?
2) Is it even important to GET the checks at all?
3) How how how do you actually go about shutting down a bank? I know this seems dumb because you've been discussing it all over here - but besides writing to the host, etc. = what do you do? I want to get one of those flags!
4) I ran mugito for three days off my home broadband account and leeched (?) is that right? 191GB (it seemed huge - like 8,000,000 "items" whatever that means). I have no idea what I was actually doing, if I was actually helping anyone, etc.
OK thank you for your patience. This is all so fascinating to me I can't stop coming here to read and read.
xo Vavin |
_________________ "Only Two Months to Live:" But I want to assure you that this is not a fraud but
for real, we both know the consequences of fraud
prosecution.
Click here to support 419Eater.com |
|
|
|
H4rry B4lzack
419Eater is my life
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Posts: 306
Location: Depends on the mugu
|
Posted:
Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:11 am |
|
Hey Vavin
Killing these sites is one of the most rewarding things you can do here and if you like I can help you personally via PM.
Regarding these "check mule" sites in which the victim cashes the fraudulent checks and takes a percentage, you don't have to receive anything. We managed to shut down this site and none of us baiters ever received a single check.
Oh and running Muguito for 3 days helps dearly! In case you don't know, 191 GB of data is a lot of leeching The objects count is how many images, etc. were downloaded in order to reach the data amount. Good work! |
_________________ x5 | x4 x2 | x2 x2
Join me in fighting scammer banks! Click here and run the Lad Vampire now!
"AS I AM WRITING YOU THIS MAIL MIDNIGHT HERE I FEEL LIKE MAKING HOT LOVE TO YOU." -
I love my pony
|
|
|
|
|