Community Chat

[Pianomama]

An odd thing happened to me today. I am wondering if anyone else had this experience. I went to the mailbox to check and see if the mail had come. Inside I found a manila envelope with the label USPS Express mail and my name and address. (The regular mail came an hour later). I opened this envelope to find a check from Allergan Inc in the amount of $1,650.99. What?????? No idea who or why. So I looked up the company online and called them. Spoke to the acct. payment manager and she said that they had had similar calls and their company did NOT send out those checks. She had even called Valley National Bank where the check was issued to contact their fraud dept. and no one answered. Obviously this is a scam, but my question is suppose all of us cashed our checks. A few days later it would bounce, but why do this? Is there someway these people could get into your bank acct. this way? It's just crazy. The lady from Allergan said she was going to find out what was going on next week and would let me know. What do you think?