MysteryGuest wrote:
[quote=JoeH]
It appears they are knowingly receiving or trying to pass the forged ones.
Not in every case. I didn't post all the links I looked at, but in some cases, pretty innocent seeming people are getting caught up in investigations by virtue of simply trying to cash a money order. And even if it's only questioning, who wants to spend an afternoon in the police station?
I still say the whole thing sounds dubious despite the local address. The letter is written in pure Scammer.
Don't go dropping the initial "If", that is important. In fact your deliberate dropping of it and then capitalizing the "I" of it is suspect in itself. Definitely looks like a deliberate attempt to misquote. The Postal Inspectors will investigate "strongly" any case of fraud they decide to take on, and one item they check is the person trying to cash one. So unless it is very obvious the person is innocently trying to cash one they received and are the defrauded victim, they will investigate to see if that is the case, or not.
As for "pretty innocent", what really happened versus what a person states to make themselves sound innocent after going through this does not always match. And you often only get their story, the Postal Inspectors will often not go into the reasons they investigated a person. You ought to have heard the "story" given by the local ne'er-do-well, thought he had a sure thing. Well it looks like for once this guy got scammed instead. But given his history, if they had not investigated him, they would have not been doing their job. If you were not familiar with him, his story sounded "pretty innocent".
