One of our clients, who has her property listed in several locations, as well as with us, has been the target of what U.S. Postal authorities call "The Nigerian Scam". She received an email offering to purchase her property from someone claiming to represent the buyers and offering $20,000 dollars. When she agreed, she received another email telling her that a check was being sent by courier to her for $28,000 dollars. She was told that upon receipt of the check, she should immediately wire transfer $4,300 dollars to one address and $3,700 dollars to another as these people were the buyers and the error needed to be corrected immediately. We suggested to her not to send anybody anything until such time as the check could be verified. Upon receipt of the check, she forwarded it to us as her agents. When we received the check, we checked with the issuing bank, only to discover that the routing number was incorrect, the bank had no record of the account holder, the bank name was listed incorrectly, etc. We subsequently contacted the Postal inspectors and were informed that this is "The Nigerian Scam" in action. This episode is now in the hands of the USPS Inspectors.
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