The Chickasaw County Sheriff’s Office has received several reports of fraud schemes involving counterfeit checks and money orders.
    Sheriff Marty Larsen said, “If you can answer ‘yes’ to any of the following questions, you could be involved in a fraud or about to be scammed.”
    Those nine questions are:
    Is the check from an item you sold on the Internet?
    Is the amount of the check more than the item’s selling price?
    Did you receive the check via an overnight delivery service?
    Is the check connected to communicating with someone by e-mail?
    Is the check drawn on a business or individual account that is different from the person buying your item or product?
    Have you been informed that you were a winner of a lottery that you did not enter?
    Have you been instructed to either “wire, send or ship” money as soon as possible to a large U.S. city or to another country, such as Canada, England or Nigeria?
    Are you receiving pay or a commission for facilitating money transfers through your account?
    Did you respond to an e-mail or phone call requesting you to confirm, update or provide your account information?
    Larsen warns everyone to be skeptical and not to cooperate. Instead, people should contact their local law enforcement agency as soon as possible.