prize notifications when you didn't enter a contest??

@greylady (153)
United States
June 17, 2007 5:45pm CST
For a while I was recieving checks in the mail from Canada that I was supposed to deposit and then send the funds via money order to a processing center to claim a much larger prize. It sounded like a scam to me and I ran them through my shredder. Now I keep getting these e-mails from places that tell me I have been selected to recieve huge amounts of cash. They request that I respond with personal information. Most seem to originate in the UK these days. I have been just deleting them but I always wonder if by deleting them I am throwing away a fortune. Are these things possibly legit?
1 person likes this
2 responses
• Australia
20 Jun 07
Don't fall for it. They are scam. Checks they send you will bounch. Trust me because my sister have done that. and she is from canada too.
@dodoguy (1292)
• Australia
20 Jun 07
hi greylady, This is a no-brainer. You send them the money - then they have your money, you'll never see it again. And then the bank will charge the funds back from you when the check turns out to be fake, plus penalties. So they will have gotten your money, and there's not a thing in the world that you can do about it. My advice - tear up the check, and bin it.