Here is the story he told me. Plenty of red flags but I’m interested if anyone has any experience with a similar situation.
So essentially a few months ago my friend purchased a 5 year anti virus/computer protection service from a company called “Yale Vision”. I googled around and can not seem to find this company first of all. My friend goes ahead and pays $400 (wtf who pays $400 for antivirus??) for 5 years of service.
Fast forward to yesterday, few months after purchase, someone supposedly from the company calls my friend and explains that they are going out of business and he is owed a refund. So after a long drawn out process, the rep transfers the refund to my friends bank account. He was supposed to get $400 and he realizes the rep sent him $4000.
So my friend goes “Hey man you sent me 4000 not 400”. Cue the rep freaking out, getting management on the line, freaking out. They go on to ask him to go to the nearest Walmart and transfer them the money right now to avoid any delays because they need their money back.
My friend, thinking he just hit community chest in monopoly, essentially tells them to kick rocks and hangs up. They call back, he doesn’t answer and goes on to block them.
He is pretty convinced that it was some sort of error on their part and this money is his now.
To me, this sounds like one of the fake check scams where you end up over drawing your account and getting robbed but I don’t know.
Did my friend just make a $4000 come up or is he as gullible as I think he is? If the company did make a mistake, can he legally keep the money? Is he going to be taken to court if the firm did make an error like that?
Submitted May 01, 2018 at 07:58AM by Shaolin718 https://ift.tt/2I3K4Lf
