I work as a private tutor. I received an email from a con artist in Sweden calling himself "Lee Soul." He said he was looking for a mathematics tutor for his daughter who was staying with relative in Atlanta, where I live.
He then said he would send me a check for $3000.00, more than ten times the amount I would charge him to tutor his daughter. He instructed me to send $2500.00 of this to two of his business associates in England by Western Union. (He claimed he wanted this done for tax purposes.)
Of course, when the check arrived I deposited it; the money was posted to my account. I sent the $2500.00 to the people he instructed me too, and I found out my bank account had been overdrawn because the check turned out to be counterfeit!
However, the story does not end there. He claimed he sent me yet another check. (Apparently, he thinks he can pull this same scam twice on the same person.) If he actually did this and I receive it, should I turn the fake check over to law enforcement? If so, what agency?
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