A former washed-up shock jock was working as a counterfeiter in Manhattan, New York.

Bruce Bond, 49, whose radio career started to plummet in 2001 when he was fired from a Pennsylvania station for attacking co-workers on air, was charged with creating counterfeit checks worth millions from a stolen bank account. He had created several thousand bogus checks while operating from his Wall Street, New York apartment, prosecutor Gary Snitow told Justice Marcy Kahn in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Bond, used to forge checks on regular basis, and in the past 15 months.
Manhattan, New York prosecutor allege that Bond, used to mail counterfeit checks ranging in size from $1,500 to $4,700 to his victims. He also used to send them instructions on how to keep 10% of the total while wiring the remainder money to his five accomplices in Europe and Nigeria.

Most of the victims targeted were responding to “work from home” job offers which were posted by the scamsters in Nigeria and Europe.