Scams and Frauds on the Internet

Lately, I've been a victim of Advanced-Fee Fraud. This is how the story goes . . . About a month ago, I receive an e-mail talking about this work-at-home opportunity. All I had to do was give them my name, address, telephone, age, and tell them if I had a bank account or not. Basically, what the job consisted of was that I would receive some money orders through the mail, I would take 10% for me, and then transfer the rest of the money through Western Union. At first I thought that this was fake who would send me some money orders through the mail, they don’t even know me. About two weeks later, I get four money orders through the mail, $950 each in my name. To be honest with you, I felt like just depositing the money and leaving it in my account but I didn’t. I went to the bank and deposited the $4050 and was going to withdraw $3420 but the bank wouldn’t let me. They said that I would have to wait five days for the money orders to clear before I could take out that amount of money. I was fine with it, so I headed off to meet my boyfriend at his job. I didn’t tell him anything about the job before but I decided to mention it to him. His eyes opened wide when he saw the balance in my account. I explained to him the situation, and he looked at me with eyes of disappointment. "I hope you know that was all a scam and if it’s real money, it’s illegal," my boyfriend told me. I first I didn’t believe him but I he started to explain and even printed out some information on it, I was convinced. I called the bank and told them what happened. They told me everything would be ok. Wrong! It turns out that for every money order I deposited I was charged a $12 returned check fee. Which I thought for so unfair because I told the bank that it was all a scam. I ended up closing my account and going to another bank. I learned my lesson. There is no such thing as easy money.