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Originally Posted by Yorkiedaze 
And he wrote this:
a couple of other things. Don't trust anyone who wants you to wire balances. I've had a couple of classic scams where the guy was going to send me a check for more than the selling price, and asked me to wire back the difference. What happens is you do get a check, but it's bogus, and then you go down to the bank, cash the check, and wire the guy the difference. Problem is, he gets the wired money immediately, but it takes 3 days for the check you cashed to clear, and by the time the check fails to clear 3 days later, the guy is long gone with your money.
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This actually happened to me, someone "mistakingly" wired me $1000, the bank caught it and shut down my account, they told me I'd likely get an email saying that for kindly wiring the money back I could keep $200 of it or something."
It royally confused me, and caused a ton of headache cause I had to run around to banks and prove my identity, while I was trying to pay off my tuition. My bf told me to spend it, it's a good freaking thing I didn't