Fraud facts and tips to help you

You can save time, effort and money yourself if you know, how to needing and avoid some of the more common scams. Here is a look at one that could happen to you.

The scam place one collectible display for your motorcycle or electronic equipment on a specialty website. ÊYou are contacted by a buyer. Everything seems legit. You get even a cashier's check overnight. The only problem is the check box for $5,000 on the selling price is written. The buyer says it is an error, and asks to enter the check boxes and refund the overpayment with a money transfer service. A week later, your bank was informed the check fraudulent. Any funds deposited in your account. Unfortunately, it was already in cash sent along with $5,000.

If the payment is found to be a scam the funds are withdrawn from your account. In this type of fraud could lose both the amount of the overpayment and the item you sold. Because some banks allow funds to be drawn, before disabling an item, you can learn of fraud until it is too late.

Consider the solution before you send a money data transfer transaction, these proposals: 1. using you to send a money transfer service to the Fund you don't know to someone.

2. Be wary of a buyer anxious that a transaction is now complete. Most real buyers spend time questions and negotiating the price.

3. Contact your bank, to find out how long it will take the checkbox to disable. Just because the Bank gave access you resources which means don't completely disabled.

4. Wait until the check has cleared, before the amount of data, the overpayment.

5. Remember the old saying: If a deal sounds too good to be true, it is likely.

Money transfer companies like Western Union to create a greater awareness of the different types of consumer fraud. If you believe you have been the victim of fraud, please contact the Attorney General, other local law enforcement agencies and your bank.