Info on scam

Shady Lane

Retailers, Manufacturers, ePay, AudiogoN, Paypal or whatever. Buying and selling advice.

My cousin recently received two letters from Germany, requesting materials purchased on Ebay be sent. He doesn't sell anything on Ebay, and asked that I look into it. The one letter contained a check for about 35 Euros, which I told him not to deposit, because then they have the routing number, account number, etc.
The second letter (different sender)contained $45.00 in CASH!
I returned both letters with the check and the cash, and explained (in German) that they had obviously gotten the wrong information, etc.
Now my question: what could they have been trying to do by sending cash? I understand the check scam, but cash??? Maybe I'm paranoid, and it was an honest mistake?
Fritz

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Topic - Info on scam - Cellist 10:06:20 01/04/07 (3)

Re: Info on scam - quizzled 20:04:07 01/27/07 (0)

Was the cash dollars or euros? )MT( - J. S. Bach 10:44:15 01/04/07 (1)

Re: Was the cash dollars or euros? )MT( - Cellist 10:46:42 01/04/07 (0)

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