The scammer requests that the victim cash the check and refund the balance via wire transfer.

Conscious and coherent, he tells her to go and immediately cash a check that he has in his wallet.

When the first single came out in 1989, he could not cash the check, since he could not provide an address or a bank account.

He issued checks to an account he set up with a false name, forged the signature, and cashed the checks.

He then cashed the checks and deposited the cash into his personal account.