Actually, they're also useful when you go on vacation. If you'd lose the cheques you can get the money back.

In some countries, money orders aren't accepted. When I lived in Moscow, I had to go to a certain bank a long way from where I lived to cash a money order. After waiting in line, I got my money.

On the other hand, my Citibank card worked all over the place. If I lost it, I would go into a Citibank and I'm sure they'd help me.

Lol. Yes there was never a doubt that this was a scam. Just wanted to know how it works. Thanks for that.

Was looking for a creative way to do something with this. IE track him down somehow. Something fun and productive.

Ask him {her} why he/she can't do a normal on campus swap. There are two things that can happen,

A) he/she ignores you
B) a really long sob story, etc...

With the sob story, its becomes really interesting, because unless the person is a veteran scam artist, there will be holes or a very weak story. Might be fun to show him/her what a looser he/she is for trying to pull such a scam...