back around 2007, the scam: "send you a check for a mistakenly huge amount and ask you to refund the difference" was in full swing. In their email they said the

back around 2007, the scam: "send you a check for a mistakenly huge amount and ask you to refund the difference" was in full swing. In their email they said they'd overnight a check, and I thought "good, overnight shipping is very expensive, at least if I scam them I'm costing them $20 in fees", but no. Brought the envelope to a friend at UPS, he gave it to their fraud department, and behold the letter was sent using a stolen corporate shipping account. Maybe I helped by getting that account shut down, but I also ended up costing them money.