Cheque Cashing Scheme Lands Victim in Jail
On July 3rd, 2006 the Department of Justice announced that "a probation and parole supervisor, Mark Davis-McCrary, has pleaded guilty to bank fraud after depositing a $66,775 counterfeit check into his DOJ Credit Union account and then withdrawing more than $61,000 from the account, United States Attorney Kenneth L. Wainstein and Joseph Persichini, Jr., Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office."
This was the standard cashier's cheque fraud, with the "victim" trying to be a little too clever. According to the facts "presented at the plea hearing, on November 2, 2005, Davis-McCrary responded to an email solicitation at his place of employment, where he worked as a probation and parole supervisor, by agreeing to provide assistance in collecting funds, cashing a check and distributing the proceeds of that check on behalf of an unknown individual purporting to be a Dr. Raymond Akeem, Managing Director of the Addax & Oryx Petroleum Group, Ltd. ("Addax"). As part of the agreement, Davis-McCrary would receive 10 percent of the check proceeds while the remaining 90 percent would go to Addax. On December 12, 2005, Davis-McCrary deposited a counterfeit check in the amount of $66,775.00 into a checking account he maintained at Justice Federal Credit Union ("JFCU") at the Department of Justice ("DOJ") branch, located at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in the District of Columbia. Prior to that deposit, Davis-McCrary's JFCU account had a negative balance of $522.44." (my emphasis)
Seeking to be clever, Mr. Davis-McCrary instead withdrew more than $61,000 from his account after the funds were made provisionally available. Of course the cheque was a fraud, and now "Davis-McCrary is scheduled to be sentenced on September 29, 2006, and faces a statutory maximum of 30 years of imprisonment and payment of restitution of more than $61,000."
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Comments
This is so unfortunate. The Check Cashing scams is one that has been around a long time. We hope that individuals would do due dilience prior to getting involved with some unknown stranger he/she meets over the internet.
This scam has several variations. Today, the most common are "Lottery Winnings" "Government Grants" "Escrow" and "Loans.
Most recently, we were able to get offline the perpetrators behind the domain Dollartime.com. Please visit us ScamFraudAlert.com and get an idea of how these criminals operate and to what extend they will go to to keep the sites alive.
At any rate, this is not a pleasant story.
Posted by: ScamFraudAlert | July 16, 2006 5:23 PM
This is so unfortunate. The Check Cashing scams is one that has been around a long time. We hope that individuals would do due dilience prior to getting involved with some unknown stranger he/she meets over the internet.
This scam has several variations. Today, the most common are "Lottery Winnings" "Government Grants" "Escrow" and "Loans.
Most recently, we were able to get offline the perpetrators behind the domain Dollartime.com. Please visit us ScamFraudAlert.com and get an idea of how these criminals operate and to what extend they will go to to keep the sites alive.
At any rate, this is not a pleasant story.
Posted by: ScamFraudAlert | July 16, 2006 6:00 PM