By this point, I've decided to check out user: ojabenji2004
If her stats are no longer there what I saw was as follows:

Yahoo! ID: ojabenji2004 RealÊName: JANET Nickname: BABY Location: LONDON CITY Age: 27 MaritalÊStatus: Single Gender: Female Occupation: MANAGER Member Since: 08/17/2004 Last Updated: 03/22/2005

Well, that was sudden. Can you say phasers set on suspicious? Thought so.

Okay, this sounds like money laundering already. But it smacks of other scam potential that I think I've heard of. I try to pull more information out to get all the specific details...

So obviously I go to google. The terms are: scam, "Cashiers check" ,"10%".

It turns out that the current scam (mostly Nigerian) is to fed ex a cashier's check to the dup. This check is either for payment of service plus overage or payment of product with overage. The Dup is asked to cash the cashier's check. Because it's a cashier's check the bank should just cash if for them. The dup should then use the money to either return the overage, use the overage for shipping, or the overage is the dup's take of the processing and the rest should be sent along to the con.

The problem occurs when the forged not really a cashier's check bonuces 1-3 weeks after this has all occurred. The person who cashed the check is liable for the money if the check goes rogue. Which these will. So here's the short form in 2 cases.

John sells a car online. It's worth $20000. Someone overseas sends a cashier's check for $25000. Insists that he's doing this to process the sale as quickly as possible. John cashes the check. He now has $25G in either cash or in his acct. He goes to the car shipper. The car shipper charges him $3K to ship the car. John sold his car and has $2K for the process. A week later. The check manifests as worthless. John now owe's his bank $25G, owes the car shipper $3K and if it was in his acct, the extra $2K is gone. By the way, the crook has his car.

Jerry is looking for a job. Someone online hires him as a regional representative. His job is to process payments. He receives cashier's checks, cashes them, and then sends the amount upstream withholding 10% as the processing fee. You can already see where this one is going.

Now, many banks have now instituted what seem like rather drastic rules to prevent this. Most major banks will not allow you to draw off a large cashier's check drawn off another bank for 1-2 weeks until they have had a chance to run a check on it. It's sort of reduced the effectivenes of cashier's checks (and having run into this problem with a legitimate one, it makes far more sense). Unfortunately, several banks have not instituted these protections. Thus the problem.

So, let's see if this one fits the profile we now have

Well, that was easy

The purpose of this is to convince them that I am a dup and to try to make them think that they've got an inroad. By offering them seemingly unwitting further services to help their scam, they open up. This is a common practice in Spam/Scam baiting. See 419-Eater for more information.