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 Post subject: DSULLIVANHOME.ORG COUNTERFEIT CHECK SCAM
PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:28 am 
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Hi - I'm new to this as I guess I just became a victim last week. I thought I did enough research but I guess not....

I received via careerbuilder.com an offer to process donations for dsullivanhomes which said it was a nonprofit organization that is sort of like Habitat for Humanity, Cluster 13, things like that. They supposedly build homes for people in need.

I asked a bunch of questions and checked out the website and did a scam search and nothing came up on them. They sent me a contract to start working as a 1099 vendor and it all looked legit.

I received my first donation for processing and deposited it into my account. I figured if the bank thought the check was ok and the funds cleared then I would know for sure. The funds cleared and so I processed the donations sending cash via western union to the address and people as instructed. No problem right? Well I went to the bank two days later and had a -4300 balance in my account. The check was counterfeit.

I was in shock as I'm a single mom and I work hard for what I have. I have a college degree in accounting (4 years +) so I figured I was smart enough. Guess I'm not. Anyway, I thought this would be a good opportunity to make money for Christmas for my kids to have a little extra and now I can't even feed them. I had no savings, no extra anything.

The bank is claiming they aren't liable, the local police say they are and I'm totally confused and all I know is that I don't have any money and I'm so stressed out all I want to do is go to bed and never get up again.

I wanted to let you all know this company is out there and what they are trying to do so nobody else has to go thru this.

Also if anyone has any advice, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:00 pm 
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Lisa,
I am so sorry to hear that this has happened to you. Where are you located? I ask because I think that you may need to speak with a lawyer and you live in Minnesota I know a wonderful lawyer.

If you live in a state other than Minnesota, contact
The National Center for Victims of Crime
2000 M Street NW, Suite 480
Washington, DC 20036
1-800-FYI-CALL
http://www.ncvc.org

Tell them that you are looking for a lawyer who does cases with counterfeit checks.

There are ways that you can try and resolve this issue with the bank so that you can at least have money to live off of (first off if you have any sort of direct deposit of paychecks into that bank account have that stopped so that you get a real check that you can cash to live off of until this is resolved, and if you have automatic withdrawls from that account you may want to have those turned off also so that your negative balance does not grow)

Some people have gone to the bank and worked out a "loan" with them . . . basically they put your account back to the amount that was in it but now you have to pay them $XXX per month until the "loan" is paid off.

Some people have decided to fight the bank and have come to out of court settlements with the bank (this is the route we went).

Which ever option you choose, we would be willing to share more details with you on ways that others have proceeded through this process.

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