They sent me a check for almost $3000. The letter said I won $75,000 and that the $3000 was for me to cash and send back a money order in that amount to cover "administative payment and clearance fees of your winnings".
2007-01-26 02:43:37 · 4 answers · asked by Chris J 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
When you cash the fake check you will be telling the scammers all kinds of personal information about yourself without knowing it.
They will know plenty of information about your bank when you cash it. Eventually the bank will discover it is a fake and will take the money back off you. They may also charge you for what happened.
The scammers will possibly discover some information about your bank when the check is returned to them. This will help them rob you.
No one just gives you $75,000 for a competition you never paid to enter.
2007-01-26 05:10:33 · answer #1 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES THIS IS A SCAM. DO NOT CASH THE CHECK AS IT IS MOST LIKELY A FAKE.
The way this works is that your bank won't know it's a fake for several weeks. By that time the scammers are long gone and YOU are liable for the ENTIRE $3000.
Delete the emails, do not cash the check.
2007-01-26 10:51:29 · answer #2 · answered by Marvinator 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at the questions I have answered on this site in my info. There are so many winners there could not be enough money to pay them all.There is no International Lottery.This is a Nigeria scam. Yahoo/MSN, U.K. and Australian lotteries, football lotteries from the same counties, Global-Link, World Poverty, Microsoft, Free Lotto, which now seems to have it's own people answering gambling questions on this site claiming they have won which is a total lie, and hundreds more. I am a retired Police Officer that has years of experience investigating Internet scams and frauds. This is an old one. The common link to them getting your email is on line surveys. Yahoo does not give it's stock holders money away nor does it give it's email subscribers address's to lotteries. The only way to win in a lottery is to buy a ticket, if you didn't you could not possibly win. Here is the website of the 17 nation law enforcement task force that investigates cross border Internet crime. You may file a complaint there. www.econsumer.gov. Also go to www.ripoffreport.com and browse complaints and you will find many having the same doubts as yourself about these scams. Below is a typical scam and how they work it. They just go under a thousand different names. They are asking you to send a prepayment to collect your winnings and they want you to send it by a money wire service. Lotteries do not just pick your name out of thin air, and just so happen to have your email also. No Internet service provider gives their email list out to lotteries. If you did not pay to play you could not possibly win.
recieved letter of winning $65000.00 Pacific Player International lotteries,please contact claims agent miss linda strong at 204-951-7582. Second letter came with a check for the amount of $2,470.00 To deposited in my bank account for processing fee,a week later check cleared my bank. I contacted my claims agent over the phone she advise me to wire the balance of $2,341.00 to a Mr Edward Culwell in New York,New York.I called miss linda strong to advise her of the western union confirmation number,to date can not get in touch with linda strong just her voice mail, I know now that it was all a RIP-OFF and now Iam in the hole with $2,470.00 with my bank.... Please send HELP... THANK YOU VERY MUCH
2007-01-26 13:11:57 · answer #3 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not an answer so much as a, What did you do? I just received the same letter. Although mine dows not say to send anything back, just to call a particular phone number and give them my "batch number". I just received it today and had to have placed the call by Friday Jan 26, 2007 by 5pm. I called anyway......the phone zounded like it picked up then.....click!! No voice. So, I'm wondering as well????
Wrangler in need!!???
2007-01-27 21:57:22 · answer #4 · answered by wrangler 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋