The payee cashes the check and then sends $2989.10 in a money order back to the P&V Services Inc. and the payee keeps the rest of the money as an incentive to send the money order. Here's the kicker...once the banks finds out that the check is not real they contact the payee and asks for the money back where the payee has already spent the remaining "incentive" and sent the money order to the scammer.