Does this sound fishy?

[DubCoffman62]

An acquaintance of mine asked me for a favor. She wants to give me 5 grand cash, I write her a check for 5 grand and put "gift" in the memo section. She says that she's trying to help her brother in-law buy a house and she needs it for his loan to get approved. It doesn't make any sense to me. Can anyone here possibly ascertain what angle she's working here? I've known her for a while and she does have a bit of a shady side. It just smells funny.

 

[AKAK]

I had no idea there were so many Nigerians in Mexico that immigrate to the Sonoran Desert.

 

[DubCoffman62]

I had no idea there were so many Nigerians in Mexico that immigrate to the Sonoran Desert.

She's Puerto Rican

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

It reeks of deception of a mortgage lender, in my IMO. If said acquaintance's bro-in-law defaults, I wouldn't want to be tied to it in anyway.

 

[Gatorubet]

Tell her your Counter-offer is you need a 5K cashiers check instead of the cash - and your check will say "for anal" instead of "gift".

 

[DubCoffman62]

It reeks of deception of a mortgage lender, in my IMO. If said acquaintance's bro-in-law defaults, I wouldn't want to be tied to it in anyway.

That's what I'm thinking. Here's a little story about this woman.
Someone was once hard up for money and approached her with a diamond ring asking for $200. She wanted to check it out first so she took it to a pawn shop. They told her that it wasn't real and wasn't worth anything. She then took it to one of those "we buy gold" places and told them that she just had it checked out the the previous place offered her $400. Them being experts in gold and not diamonds believed her and gave her $450 for it. She then told the person that was selling it that the diamonds weren't real and offered to give her $100 which was accepted. She made $350 off the deal.

 

[DubCoffman62]

Tell her your Counter-offer is you need a 5K cashiers check instead of the cash - and your check will say "for anal" instead of "gift".

Now there's an idea

 

[scott91575]

Unless the money is dirty (like drug money) or counterfeit, I don't understand why she needs a check. Tell her to deposit the cash. It will probably throw up some flags, but if it's clean no problem.

 

[Jake]

An acquaintance of mine asked me for a favor. She wants to give me 5 grand cash, I write her a check for 5 grand and put "gift" in the memo section. She says that she's trying to help her brother in-law buy a house and she needs it for his loan to get approved. It doesn't make any sense to me. Can anyone here possibly ascertain what angle she's working here? I've known her for a while and she does have a bit of a shady side. It just smells funny.

Smells like she's trying to launder $5,000.

Take the cash, write her a check, but don't deposit the cash. What is she going to do about it? You make 5 grand and she never asks you to do something like this again.

 

[Gatorubet]

She's Puerto Rican

Try a couple thousand dollars Just since May I've sheeled out over $500 for her daughter's Quincenera, her uncle died and I gave her some cash to help her get to Tijuana, I paid her phone bill, I gave her some money to make a payment on a title loan she took out on her car... Over the years it's been mostly help with gas, groceries, I've bought clothes a few times, given her money to go to the doctor. Like I've said, we're very close and I don't mind helping her, I just wish she'd learn to be more responsible. She shelled out a decent amount of her own money for her daughter's party and now I know she wishes she had some of that money back. I always tell her that she has to learn how to see past her nose, of course she has no idea what I mean by it.

I'd tell the Puerto Rican gal to borrow it from your Mexican friend you're always giving money to... :p

 

[DubCoffman62]

I'd tell the Puerto Rican gal to borrow it from your Mexican friend you're always giving money to... :p

I nipped that in the bud. The two are friends though.

 

[DubCoffman62]

Smells like she's trying to launder $5,000.

Take the cash, write her a check, but don't deposit the cash. What is she going to do about it? You make 5 grand and she never asks you to do something like this again.

How do I make 5 grand?

 

[scott91575]

How do I make 5 grand?

take the cash and let the check bounce.

Of course the easier thing to do is just put a stop payment on the check. Since the money seems dirty, what will she do, call the cops? She might have you killed though.

 

[DubCoffman62]

take the cash and let the check bounce.

Of course the easier thing to do is just put a stop payment on the check. Since the money seems dirty, what will she do, call the cops? She might have you killed though.

It wouldn't bounce unless I withdrew a significant sum. You're right though, she'd probably have me killed. I once went to a birthday party for her daughter and most of her family looks as though they just got released from the pen after serving 20-life. I once heard that her 65 year old mother used to work for a drug dealer weighing out and bagging product. However, she does work two jobs so she's not completely criminal, more opportunistic I'd say.

 

[scott91575]

It wouldn't bounce unless I withdrew a significant sum. You're right though, she'd probably have me killed. I once went to a birthday party for her daughter and most of her family looks as though they just got released from the pen after serving 20-life. I once heard that her 65 year old mother used to work for a drug dealer weighing out and bagging product. However, she does work two jobs so she's not completely criminal, more opportunistic I'd say.

If she is not a criminal then she should have no problem depositing the cash. Tell her to do that and leave you out of the equation.