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I think it works like this: You receive your "winning check," but the scammer wants you to either pay a fee up front in order to receive it, or, they require that a portion of it be returned to them ("Oops, we made the check out for too much, please return $500 of the $1500...").
They cash the check that you send to them, using fake IDs or some other means of cashing it without being traceable. In, in a couple of weeks, you are out the "winning check" amount, and the amount that the scammer has vanished with.
At least... I THINK that's how they work.
What I want to know is how the phone calls I get are benefitting anybody: Even though I am on the Do- Not- Call list, my phone still rings off the wall every evening... a LOT of the calls I get are from unfamiliar numbers (spoofed numbers, I'm sure), but when I answer, there is silence for a while, eventually followed by a robot voice that simply says, "Good- bye." Then the line goes dead. Calling the number back (which I do from the office phone) always yields a message saying that this is not a valid number, or that it's been disconnected. Fine... scammer of some sort... but how does ANYBODY profit/ benefit from calling me, only to disconect? Hell, they didn't get my credit card number, they didn't fool me into pressing any digits, they didn't even get me to log in to their website and transfer money to them. How did they benefit?
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