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The Trustees of Boston University wish to inform you that you should not accept checks from them when you sell something online

Boston University Police report a rash of eBay and Craigslist frauds involving checks allegedly from either BU trustees or BU student services.

In the frauds, somebody selling something online will get a check from one of those sources, made out for far more than the amount of the sale (like $5,000 for a $400 purchase). The buyer tells the seller to deposit the check, then immediately wire them the difference via Western Union. Of course, the checks then bounce and the buyers are gone:

The checks were usually accompanied by printed notices instructing the recipients to send email notifications to a “secure payment department's email address" to verify the check numbers and to receive further instructions about the checks before cashing or depositing them.

If you get a check like that, contact Detective Billie Kanavich at (617) 353-3436 or [email protected] before cashing or depositing the check(s).

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to still be falling for old scams like these. And I thought eBay requires its sellers and buyers to use PayPal for payments.

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