I did that years ago for a friend of mine. He just needed a few bucks to tide him over until payday so he gave me a post dated check. Was only a few hundred bucks so I wasn't too worried and I'd known him for a few years. Haven't seen him in decades now and never got the money back. I see it as a cheap ticket to get off an out-of-control train before it crashed and cost me a heck of a lot more.