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Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating an Internet scam that landed nearly $20,000 worth of counterfeit traveler's checks on the doorstep of a local resident...the scam is done on the Internet and starts with the victim being contacted. The scammer tells the person that he or she is from another country and needs to send traveler's checks to the United States for some reason or another. The victim has to send a certain amount of money and the traveler's checks are sent. The two will meet with the foreign visitor when he or she arrives in the U.S. to spend the checks. However, the checks are counterfeit, and the victim loses the initial money sent, investigators said.