Internet Scammers Getting Desprite

I was the intended victim of a check fraud scam this morning. I had been contacted through a website about my services as a nanny and asked to work a wedding the evening of April 26th. Once the “wedding planner” (went by the name of David Edward) and I agreed on a fee, he told me I would receive a check in the male shortly covering my costs. Later that week he Emailed me and told me there had been a complication with the check. He said the groom had miss understood and sent me a check for not only my expenses but also the money that was supposed to be for the wedding planner. He then asked if I would mind kindly depositing the check and whirring him his portion of the money so that he was able to pay the proper people. I said I would be happy to send him his portion of the money when I received the check, and I had every intention of doing so, until the check actually came. The check was mailed via UPS and I was forced to go an pick at a local office. Upon arriving I was told that my delivery was still out on the truck and that I would have to come back later, but as I was walking out the door a lady handed me a phone and said this is for you. Now who could be calling me at a UPS? It was there director of security. He promptly told me that he apologized for the dishonesty but they had the check in question but that there was a problem. It was a fake. My package had a rived along with a number of other fraudulent checks and so had been open and verified. They found it was made under a closed account. Upon my inspection of the check I noticed the hand writing did not match, the paper was incredibly thin, and the names and states on check, envelope, and initial Job inquiry where all different. I was grateful to UPS for being on the look out and headed directly to the Belleville Police Department to file a report.
Where did the time go when predators waited patiently on the sidelines for an unsuspecting customer to fall into there laps? No more folks, now they come to you. Well this one picked the wrong not so unsuspecting girl. Warning to all who do transactions on the net, If something smells fishy it is, and even is it doesn’t, it could be.