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Sheriff s Office report
Scam hits
up local
man and
bank for
$1.6,000
A Rappahannock County man was contacted via email by a woman in Nigeria. She claimed her father had died recently, and she asked if he could help in getting her father's life insurance payout from Arizona to Portsmouth, Va.
Over the course of the week between Jan. 28 and Feb. 3, some 19 money orders were sent from Mesa, Ariz., to the obliging gentleman who was asked to cash the money orders and wire money to a person in Portsmouth.
Each money order was in the amount of $835.35, totaling $15,871.65.
Prior to wiring the cash via Western Union, the man was asked by his “friend" for the transaction numbers of each wire. That, in effect, gave complete control to whomever had the numbers to reroute the money any number of times and to anyone, anywhere in the world, essentially creating a long and near impossible trail to follow.
The money orders appeared to be real but. the Rappahannock National Bank soon learned that all 19 were counterfeit and contacted the Sheriff's Office.
The local man - whom Sheriff Connie Smith would not identify for privacy reasons - is now accountable for the cash drawn on the counterfeit money orders. There are no charges pending against him,
See SCAM, Page A11
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