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I was scammed from check fraud?

November 12th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments
  1. One Sexy Jeep Girl
    November 14th, 2009 at 16:01 | #1

    any time a company sends you a check for a certain amount of money and requires you to send any portion of it back is a scam. I hope you learned your lesson from this.

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  2. Jimmy Neutron
    November 15th, 2009 at 07:07 | #2

    Your situation is very messed up my friend. I hope you have receipts or documentations (email correspondances) of IRecruit and of the money you sent back to IRecruit. This will show the truth of your naivety to the courts. That the fake check was not planned or fabricated by you.
    Now lets answer your questions:

    1. Should I plead guilty or take it to trial?
    If you plead guilty, the trial will end right there and you will be sentenced, it will be on your record as an “admission of guilt”, and no one will believe your innocence thereafter. Since you are claiming innocences here on Yahoo, then you should take it to trial.

    2. Will I be able to get it off my record?
    The best advice is not to get a criminal conviction on your record in the first place. Express this concern to your public defender.

    3. I really can’t afford a lawyer, is a public defender ok?
    The public defender is a lawyer. He/she is appointed by the court, and is there for people who need an advocate but don’t have money or sufficient funds to pay a private lawyer. Make copies and give all the information, letters & emails, that you have on IRecruit to your public defender.

    4. This is my first offense will I get jail time?
    It depend upon the charges that are brought forth, and the judge. I wouldn’t worry about jail time…right now work on proving to the Judge or Jury that there is reasonable doubt that you did not mastermined the passing of a fraudlent check, but merely a victim scammed by someone else (IRecruit)

    5. I received ROR, not bail when I was released does that reduce the chance of getting jail time?
    The courts put faith that you will respect the law and will return to appear for trial, that is why you were released on (your) own recognizance [ROR]. It’s not an indication of reduce jail time.

    Talk with your public defender and ask him/her what options you have in court.

    Lastly, good luck to you.

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  3. gomanyes562
    November 16th, 2009 at 09:15 | #3

    It’s extremely stupid to participate in these things without checking out the company. There are many scams online. But what’s done is done. To answer your questions:

    1. You should definitely take it to trial. Pleading guilty will waive many of your rights, and you will be essentially asking to be punished for something you didn’t do.
    2. If you are found not guilty, it will not go on your record.
    3. Yes, a public defender is fine.
    4. If you are found guilty, you may or may not get jail time. But there’s no reason why you should be found guilty.
    5. No, it doesn’t. It just means that the judge trusted you to show up.

    You need to do two things here:
    1. Contact your state’s attorney general’s office and file a complaint against iRecruit. Find out from them if there are or have been any other complaints against the company. If there are, complie a list to use during trial.
    2. Get a public defender and give him all documentation, including correspondence between you and iRecruit, information on other complaints that you got from the AG’s office, etc. Then sit back, go through the trial, and hope for the best.
    Good luck man. I know it ***** when these things happen.

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