eddiebrannan

that's different

EnLaCalle

It sounds like more of mistake than a scam to me. I don't think money can just be transferred into your account out of nowhere unless someone has your account info/debit card and pin/etc. or your connected to someone elses account somehow.
I've had the bank make mistakes that end up with me having loads more money than I should. They ALWAYS will catch up with it. It's only a matter of time. Don't end up with an earful of cider. Call your bank too.

$0.00/Gal

nigerian scam

carleton

Different but similar.

No offense to the OP, but an ounce of common sense is good enough to cure most scams.

nme

if it was sent to you via paypal. After accepting the money and using it if its found to be stolen they can easily take it out of your account. A friend got paid for a job he did via paypal for 1000$. he spent it on ebay and 2 weeks later his paypal read -1000. Just because it clears doesnt mean it cant go poof.

christiank

This guy that was a neighbor of my friend accidentally had $20K put into his bank account in the 80's. He withdrew it and eventually bought a Porsche. He never drove it though because he was scared he would get caught. I don't know whatever happened to the Porsche.

visitordesign

yeah. i didn't/wasn't planning on biting. i was just curious if anyone else had had the same thing happen specifically with a virtualmoney account--where that site verified that the funds were available for transfer upon inquiry. it's different than the nigerian scam as eddie has pointed out, but i do tend to agree with those who have mentioned that the bank would find a receiver liable for the funds in the event of any oddity. i still also keep thinking about the laundering angle, which would actually be a sort of ingenious scam for organized crime to start pulling.

anyway, keep your eyes peeled...

shishi

Now that is funny that he never drove it.

Shiznaz

Just a thought, but I wouldn't suggest talking about stuff like this on a public internet forum...

No_Minkah

why? We're not plotting a scheme or anything.

visitordesign

doesn't matter. i'm not taking it. i just wanted to see if it was a pervasive scam.

HereNT

That's one of the most often misquoted things in the bible - it's actually 'the love of money is the root of all evil...

AfterThisNap

Hey visitor, when I lived in TN I was pretty big into building custom jeeps and rockcrawlers. By virtue of our parts being so expensive (you think phil stuff is spendy?) there were a lot of scams floating around, some sophisticated, some no so.
After a while, one competetive rockcrawler accepted a wiretransfer (not anonymous though) for about 25k knowing full well it was a scam. He pulled it out of the bank and invested it. Six months later the bank asked for it back, stating that he was responsible for the 25k transfer. He returned it, but kept the dividends. Food for thought.

iamjberube

+2. guess i'm not the only one who had to read the bible as a child.

huhenio

1,000,000 times agreed.

Talk to the bank regarding that 8k thing.

sourasher

Dude, don't even try to clear the money. I had something like that happen to me and I used my bank as a buffer to see if the money would clear. After explaining everything to the bank, being as straight forward as possible they told me to put the funds into my account and wait for it to clear. I went back a few times to ask and the third time (approximately a week later) they said it had cleared. Thinking that I had done the right thing and covered all my bases I used some of the money. The next day I found out that the money hadn't cleared at all. I tried to get the bank to take some of the fall but I ended up paying all the money back over a year. Don't mess with that! It's a scam.

Guest

As soon as you transfer the money, they'll have all your bank information- and your identity too. You'll be cleaned out, and you'll lose your good credit too.

Don't do it. In fact, send that email to the police and let the police handle it from there.

Koffee

Serendipper 

I always thought the truth was more like" the love of evil is the root of all money..."

dommer

couldnt you set up a new account just for this? what if its a mistake and you really are getting free money.

schnee

LISTEN TO THIS.

operator

Wishful thinking that the police is actually going to do something.

What the **** is "yr"?

dustinlikewhat

I thought that was just a magazine people put on their coffee table to seem smart, I didn't know anyone actually read it.

dommer

well this is the internet dumby, you cant see his coffee table so he had to tell you. duuh.

mrbertfixy

the new yorker is the **** if you have the patience to read the looong ass articles.

humancongereel

i'm going to assume it was some sort of mistake. it'll get caught. a roommate found her bank account doubled a couple weeks ago, and bought us all pizza. the next day she was broke, from the extra money being taken out and having bought pizza with the little bit that was hers.

even if it's a mistake, it'll get caught sometime.

and +3 on that "love of money is the root of all evil" shiznaz.