I had a guy message me through local bitcoins, he wanted to buy about 500$ worth of them. Okay, I set up a meeting with him. I got all of my things together. We agreed to meet a shopping mall which isn’t too far away from my house. And there are a lot of people there so I wasn’t worried about getting my ass beat. I met with the guy, and I instantly got freaked out. He told me he didn’t have any money, but that he had a check with him. Hm. I thought okay, I have gotten paid with checks before so it wasn’t anything to crazy. We walked together to the ATM machine in the mall. And I deposited the check into my account with the guy next to me. Then I sent everything to his wallet. Cool.
But four days had passed and I already spent the 500$ check that was deposited into my account.
Wells Fargo called a few days later and said the check had bounced and I needed to repay them the 500$. Should have asked for the guy’s ID.