[John Rogers]

This past spring I got a UPS overnight envelope and inside was a short letter and a $3500 check for "my account refund"! I thought whoa, this is from a company in New York City and the package was mailed from Newport Beach CA so right away I suspected something weird. I went to our credit union and they said that yes it was a scam as I suspected and as we were talking I noted they misspelled my home town, Chula Vista so that told me it was bad.

So the back called the company in NY and their CFO said a lady, high up in sales had been fired and had taken a bunch of company checks with her and they had been unable to track her down. I noted the return address was right up the road from us and the lady said she would contact the NYPD fraud unit. Later that afternoon I got a call from them and confirmed all the package info. Two days later, a man and a woman in really nice suits rang our door bell and had those ID cards with FBI in all caps and thanked me for helping out. Seems that since the bad checks were traveling across country it was a federal offence and the couple up north had been arrested and taken back to New York! They did not mess around it seems.

Made me feel pretty good to help out.