::The grace of God::

As many of you know, we are in the process of renting our condo in Downtown Hollywood. Over the last 6 weeks have been advertising on craigslist.com; apartmentsforrent.com; etc. Recently we received an email from a guy by the name of 'Sean' stating that he was living in London, had just graduated from the London Institute of Design and was planning on moving to the states on July 10th to work for a modeling agency for a year. He was interested in renting our condo. After a few emails back and forth he explained that his company, this modeling agency, was going to be paying for all of his housing, including his food and travel expense to get here from London. He explained that they (the agency) would be sending us a cashiers check 'in excess' of the amount we required, first/last/security. Thinking this is kind of odd, I responded and asked him if he could please have his agency send us just the amount requested and send him the excess for his expenses...no response. We thought, mmm...this is a hoax and we will probably never see a check from this guy, nor will he show up on our door step on July 10th. Well, low and behold on July 3rd we received a check from London for almost $10,000.00. We deposited it immediately and everything looked kosher. Our bank informed us that even though it was a cashiers check it could take atleast 7 business days to clear. Now no way were Teddy and Teresa sending $5600.00 to London only have the cashier's check be fake and be out $5600.00 of our own....I dont think so my friend ;)
We corresponded with Sean over the next several days telling him that we did not have access to the money (we actually did, but wanted to play it safe and wait the 7 days). He sent us emails everyday, telling us we 'must' send the money today because he must purchase his ticket to come to the states... The 7th business day was yesterday. Sean began calling. We thought, mmm...if this was a scam Im not sure that the person would actually call, things began to seem a little lighter. We called the bank and a representative told us 'yep, all signs a go' the check is cleared in the money is yours! Amazing, we thought for sure this couldnt be true (everyone was telling us it was fraud!) Teddy went that day to send the balance Western Union (as requested by Sean) and was informed that he must come back with cash (we had no idea...we've never sent a Western Union before) So straight to the bank he went, while waiting in line inside, his paranoid wife calls to tell him "Teddy, something within me is just not right about this" He decided to seek the advice of one more bank employee and sat down with a personal banker, he pulled up all of the information, including a copy of the check, and confirmed, "yes, it has cleared, we have received the money from commerce bank" in the middle of his meeting with the personal banker yet another employee of the bank came over to the table, just to 'double check' that everything was kosher, and yes, it was! (now this is three people from Bank of America that gave us the OK) while they were finishing up, teddy ready to jump back in line to withdraw the $5600.00 cash to send to London, the banking center manager just 'happened' to walk by, we like to call her angel of God. She just said, whats going on!? After she was explained the stiuation she took two looks at the check, linked to the fraud department and said, "NO, this is absolutely fraud, this is a fake check!!" Saved....by the grace of God.
After more research the check has been withdrawn from our account and there is a fraud investigation pending....

"Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. Ps. 91:14

Humbly protected,
Teddy and Teresa