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Date:         Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:27:44 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Subject:      Re: is this a scam!?
Comments: To: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <c803c1a70701300849h79ab5a22ya7cccfcbeaa73e95@mail.gmail.co m>
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At 11:49 AM 1/30/2007, Jeff Lincoln wrote...

>>Maybe the police could use the check as evidence....it sounds like a >>crime >>was committed...criminal fraud, right? > > >That's what I thought. But I reported it to the FBI and their Internet >Crimes division. I was basically told that since I I wasn't out any >money, >and that they get thousands of complaint where people are scammed out >of >money, that they weren't going to do much.

If it was mailed to you, contact the USPS Office of Inspector General. The USPS takes mail fraud seriously. http://www.uspsoig.gov/whodoestwhat.htm


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