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Work-at-home schemes lure some
BY BRENT D. WISTROM
The Wichita Eagle
Posted
on Sat, Jun. 09, 2007
Wichita police lined up
stacks of envelopes and fraudulent
checks Friday as a warning to people who
may be tempted to participate in scams
that involve cashing checks and wiring
money.
All told,
about $250,000 worth of bogus checks,
traveler's checks and money orders sat
on a table in City Hall, and Lt. Hassan
Ramzah, a financial crimes specialist,
said that if a work-at-home job sounds
too good to be true, it probably is.
The scams often start
in e-mails or in job postings, he said.
Victims are lured by promises of $200 a
day for working at home.
What they're often
really doing is cashing a fraudulent
check that sucks money out of an
identity theft victim's bank account,
Ramzah said.
The schemes can be
elaborate and involve several people, he
said.
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