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Woman Discovers Check Scam
11-05-2009 07:40 AM EST
| By ###Ron Edwards/kbr
(Richmond, VA) -- Marlena Patterson has learned the hard way about exchanging e-mails with unknown persons. Patterson says she trusted the person she was dealing with and got burned for her gamble. She was caught in a check scam after posting her car for sale on the Internet. A phony buyer sent her a six-thousand-dollar check to pay for the car selling for a thousand dollars. He said he could only communicate via e-mail because he was hearing impaired. She cashed the check and sent the remainder to a scammer in Nigeria. Patterson now owes the bank seven-thousand dollars. She filed a report with the police, but it's unlikely she will get her money back.<
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