Edna Fiedler, 44, from Olympia, sent emails to US citizens to ask them to encash checks (British spelling cheques). These checks sent by Edna Fiedler were fake checks. The hoax involved the victims advancing Edna Fiedler, a so-called helpess person from Africa, the money ahead of the check before it cleared.

The bank would get the people for trying to cash in fake checks and the victim would also lose all the money that s/he advanced to Edna Fiedler.

Edna Fiedler was arrested on Dec 2007. On Mar 14 2008, Edna Fiedler pleaded guilty to the “Nigerian Check Scam.” The District Judge, Benjamin Settle, in Tacoma, said that being a broker in internet counterfeit check schemes to make money at the cost of others, was criminal activity. Edna Fiedler was sentenced to 2 years in a federal prison.

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This entry was posted on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 8:32 pm and is filed under News.