[Fredslist] Help needed for young man duped in check fraud scheme

[Jeanne Anne Norton]

If you or someone you know can step in to resolve this please give me a call.

When “V”, now 25 year, was a senior at SUNY Albany, he came across a job posted at Yahoo.  “V” sent in his application and resume to a company in California and received a package in the mail, including a check payable to him in the amount of $4,500.  He was instructed to deposit the check and return 20% of it as a processing fee.  “V” did not think anything of it until he received notification from Bank of America ("BOA")that he was overdrawn by $1,200.  It was then he discovered the check he received was not good and he immediately covered the overdraft. His parents, naturalized citizens, advised "V" to close his account at BOA and open an account at another bank.  He never went to the bank to speak with the manager about what happened.

“V” advised that the scam was very upsetting.  Thereafter he went about his life working at his parents car wash business.  He also bought a car with no problem.

“V” is engaged with an August wedding scheduled.   He recently went to Bank of America to open a new account and was told that he could never open a bank account or joint account at BOA and that he was registered with ChexSystems. 

I asked “V” to search his computer for any of the old emails but he said they were not there.  

“V”, his fiancé and family, would like his good name and credit returned to him.

If you can help let me know.

Thank you



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