Billie Campbell and Elisha Lanette

Victim Location 77084

Total money lost $221.99

Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order

This guy introduced himself in the email as Billie Campbell . He said he was willing to buy the watch i was selling on mercari. The last price i gave him for the watch is $50 he said if i could take down the watch on my listing since he is sure he is going to buy that from me plus he is going to give additional $60 hold fee on top of the $50 price of the watch, so i did. he asked me for my address and the name to put on the check because he is going to send a certified check through UPS so i gave him my address and my husband’s name because i’m going to deposit the check to my husband’s bank account And then emailed me again and said the check he sent was $610. he said i could send back the rest of the money once the check gets cleared. so when the check arrived to my apt. i immediately deposited the $610 check through mobile on the 17th of Dec, 2016 and after i deposited it, the $200 was already available and the $410 was on hold until the 22nd so thinking that the check was not fake because $200 was already available on our bank account, he told me to send the $200 on that day via Western Union to a person name Elisha Lanette from Bossier City Louisiana. so since the $200 was already available on my bank account i sent it to Elisha Lanette through Western Union plus $21.99 fee and after a few hours i received an email from WU that Elisha Lanette already picked up the money. And then on Monday (19th of Dec.2016) he messaged me again he was asking me if i could send $300 again through western union because he needed the money since the 22nd clearing of the $410 is few days away. he if i could send it again to the same person and then i told him i can’t because i have to wait for the $410 to be cleared before i send the rest of the money. so he said "okay so how much money is available on you i guess you could send $250 today and then i’ll give you an extra $50" so i said i still can’t because i already spent the rest of my money on christmas shopping for my kids. he said okay i will wait then when the money on the 22nd is already available. and on the night on the same date i checked my bank account hoping that the $410 will be available earlier than expected and to my surprise the bank returned the deposited item (check) and plus the bank charged me a returned fee item. and when i called the bank,they said that the check was fake. and then i immediately messaged the guy to give me bank my money and even tried to call him but he wouldn’t answer my calls and text anymore. i was shocked and wasn’t able to sleep all night because that money he took from me was supposed to be sent to my sick dad for his medicines. this person might have victimized many other people already i just don’t want this to happen anymore to anyone. I still have all the conversation we had through email and messaging.