Be aware of a new scam that is being perpetrated with a great deal of
success. You get an email like so many others with the obligatory
sob-story but there is a twist. The scammer sends you a postal money
order for you to cash for them because they are having a hard time
cashing them in their home country. You get another postal money order
for you to cash and keep for your troubles. The problem is that the
money orders are counterfeit. Postal officials are wise to the trick
but your local bank or supermarket may not be able to detect the bogus
money orders (they are quite good counterfeits). Lady nearby cashed
$24,000 of these, and now is being questioned by authorities. If it
looks like its too good to be true it probably is.