Sold a week of our timeshare to Jenny and Alfred Elliot for $400.00. They claimed that the check being sent to us also had funds for their food and travel expenses. Total amount of the check was $1800.00. We were told to cash the check and keep out the original $400.00 for the week plus an extra $100.00 for our trouble and the $59.00 fee to cover the cost of the guest certificate so they could use the week. We were then asked to send via Western Union the remainder of the money to David James Cain (1454 Knoll Ridge Dr., Melbourne, FL. 32940). My wife did this. We then got another e-mail asking us to send the $559.00 to an orphanage in Nigeria with a statement that we would be reimbursed the next business day. We did wire the remainder of the money to the travel agent in Melbourne Florida, but we did not wire the $559.00 to nigeria. We then checked our bank account a few days later and discovered that the amount of $1800.00 had been withdrawn from our account. Seems there was a stop-payment placed upon the check. So, instead of the $1800.00, we are actually out an additional $1200.00 because of what we sent via Western Union.
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