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Yes, many reside outside the U.S. However, our intelligence services are capable of dragging far more intelligent criminals out of caves in the middle of nowhere when they really want to . If we really wanted to commit the resources to it, we could hunt scammers down pretty much anywhere.

@JASFLALMT wrote:

I believe that many of the scammers are out of the country, which makes it really hard for law enforcement to do anything.

@MFJohnston wrote:

What I would like to see is more aggressive pursuit of these scammers from law enforcement.

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The criminals they are pulling out of caves have done bodily harm to US citizens and others and/or committed war crimes and likely will do it again. I don't think that our intelligence services think that it's worthwhile to catch scammers who steal from US citizens...it costs a good deal of money to organize a mission like that, perhaps more than the amount of money that the scammers have stolen from all US citizens combined? Not sure, but I think it's unlikely that anything is going to be done about it.

I agree that we shouldn’t put the same level of effort into hunting scammers as we do terrorists.I am saying that we could hunt them down if we wanted to.

Currently, I get the sense from law enforcement that, once they learn a scammer is overseas, the effort stops completely. I’d like them to put forth a few more resources.

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I have received checks like this twice each one delivered by the post office. Reported in once and the post office person to whom I reported the check found it to be funny. Did not report the second.

There is always the FTC. They don't find it amusing, they take it very seriously.

Thanks all of you for your reply and yes, I do know about why the banks can't do this. I just get so frustrated with the daily SCAMS that I want the government to stop this. Billions are being given to these scammers by us and no punishment for them.
Who's to say a lot of this money isn't going to terrorist????

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/05/2020 06:38PM by shopper8.

Maybe you should also talk to the bank and your future MIL so she won't get into trouble for this.

Bank tellers don't need to do this. The recipient of the check can call the issuing bank to verify the funds.

@shopper8 wrote:

I think it is time for the Banking industry to take control and not allow these checks to be cashed until they completely clear, which they won't.

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