Nigerian Scam in Fayetteville
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Updated: April 17, 2007
No one wants to be scammed, especially when it involves thousands of dollars.
Police say scams are always a problem and lately a Nigerian scam made a woman in Fayetteville the target
Police say she received a package from New York of 10-thousand counterfeit bills and was asked to wire the money to a doctor in Nigeria.
Police say she complied and wired 2-thousand dollars at a Western Union transfer station and it wasn`t caught. This is because police say the counterfeit bills were so good they didnt pass the pen test. This is when a pen marks the bill, if the black ink appears its fake. In this case, the counterfeit bills cleared the test as if they were real.
It was later caught at a bank, but it was too late.
Sergeant Tim Franklin said, "The money has been picked up over seas and the transfer is complete so she`d be the one responsible."
Fayetteville police are passing out warnings hoping to keep you from becoming a victim.
Police say this scammer got away with about 38-hundred dollars.
