if you recive a check saying they picked your name out of a drawing and chash the check can you get in trouble

Question

but they want you to cash the check and send them the money.but what happenends when you spend the money is that ok they say i won

Answer 1

Have you NOT read the News lately. THIS is a scam to get your personal info. You can cash the check, BUT you are responsibe for the money when it bounces in a couple of days, AND they will have your banking info DO NOT DO THIS. AND DID YOU ENTER ANYTHING FROM THEM TO START WITH?????

Answer 2

Be very causious. That check was probably stolen and they are getting you to do the dirty work. If you want to try it, deposit it, don't cash it and let the check sit there for 90 days. If it doesn't come back as fraudulent or bounced, then it's your money.

A better option is to look up the routing number and contact the bank that holds the account. Give them the account number to "verify funds" and let them know how you obtained the check.

Another thing... make sure you read all the print on the front and back of the check and check stub. There may be a clause saying by cashing you agree to pay $100 a month for a service you don't want or need of a gazillion years.

Be careful.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

They are ususally a scam, be very cautious! My ex-Husband did that and we ended up with a couple of years of magazines that we couldn't afford and did not want! I would research it first! See if there is a telephone number on the check to call and ask questions. Otherwise, babay it's your check. Do with it what you wish! Peace! K:-)

Answer 5

Guaranteed, you won a bouncing check!

But it won't be known by your bank for at least 2 to 3 weeks because it was drawn on a fraudulent account, not on a regular account with no funds.

Answer 6

Sounds like a scam. Must be where they open a line of credit under your social security number or something.

Answer 7

anytime you get sent ANYTHING like that from a lottery you didn't enter, delete it or burn it! It's bad news! Incidentally, anything like that that has your name on it, I'd burn it. saw a blurb on tv about a guy who took one of those "pre approval" credit card offers, stomped on it a few times, ripped it up, taped it back together, filled it out ( in crayon, I do believe)(also, I think he filled it out in his cat's name, but don't hold me to it) and it passed!!! So I burn anything remotely private or a ID theft possibility.

Answer 8

YES its a Scam report it to the BB:

Answer 9

theres a 99.999999999999999999999% chance someone is scamming u