How am I going to spend all the money?

Damn, we could have had a nice beach party. If you get hold of them, please tell them i said they are freaking idiots.

Does the Post Office do anything about it? My mom gets these sort of checks in the mail alot. Here highest one being $4,500 She thankfully tossed hers out as well even though she thought on it..which me buzzing in her ear telling her it was all wrong..she even went as far as calling but got no answer..which helped convince her that if it was legit..she would have gotten a answer...not have the phone call transferred then just ring and ring.

Wow Dawn Do you mean in the actual Mailbox or Internet I would have taken it to the Police if I got that through my Letter Box

Hi dawn, These days both in mail and cell phone text they send message that I won a lottery worth $2,00,000. And what they want me to do id to furnish all the details as you were asked to. One or two of my friends got excited and had tried to make contact and later realized to their disappointment that it was nothing but a scam. So beware! Remember no body gives you bucks for nothing.

Ah luckily you I too wait the day when I something won by the lottery where I haven't bought or play. But, If you look at them you see that in every of this lottery's we need to do something to get money. Why we can get this money doing nothing If we had win it? I had read one lottery post before some days ago he was win more than 2 millions. I think this Scamers sent this messages to couple of people every day hoping that someone will believe in them. And yes sometimes this plan works. If you are worried how you spend this money you can give half to me It would be very nice from your side. You can walk to post office with this check and seen what would happen. Take care, Have a nice day!

Wow..It could have been a scam, but you never know for sure. why would anyone need your SIN to Activate a check. A sign of that it could be a scam. All I can say is be careful.

or maybe the FBI.they don't really like scams coming in from other countries. i'm not sure if the P.O. has juristiction on canada mail..

Something similar to your experience happened to a cousin of mine and to me. We both received a check from a fake "secret shopper" outfit out of Canada. I guess scammers will continue to use these gimmicks as long as someone falls for it. By the way, I did not fall for it.

Maybe we could join forces, Dawn. I have some money in Nigeria that I have to get. I haven´t have time to send all they want before they hand out the money. I´m spending my time thinking what I´ll do with it.

Thankfully I haven't been scammed lately, but I could tell you before I had even read the entire discussion that this was an attempt to scam you. Wouldn't it be nice to have an extra $2500 dollars to spend, but I know that it is not going to happen, at least not for no reason at all. It is the people like you and I that know these kinds of things are scams that these scamsters hate because we not only won't fall for them ourselves, we also inform other people of their illegal behavior which means that there are even less people to fall for the scams.

You too?! I also won something today. I got a call in my celphone today, from a 208 area code. It also said that I won a cruise because they randomly generated my phone number. Imagine that. Of course this was not the first time I got this kind of call so I hanged up even before they could tell me what information I have to give them first.

Yeah, as far as I am concerned, I think it must a scam that may cheat you so much. If I were you, I think I will not pay the teaxes to get the money there. I just do not want to be cheated by them . If I have paied the money there, I think I will get the $2,500.Have a nice day!

Yeah i know the feeling. I remember getting my first email like this. The winning amount was huge and I dreamed a lot of how to spend the money. Got a lot of emails with all sort of information on letter heads etc. As i was new to internet i readily believed these and tried to take a loan to pay the initial amount. Luckily i was working in a Financial institution and got an office communication about frauds of this sort and was saved. Be cautious and don't fall for these scams. Lately there are scams about jobs too...

the intention is very obvious... and i will feel foolish if i'd be fooled by this people... i received a lot of email scams with regards to funds being transferred to my account and that sort of thing as long as i pay the processing fees and such..and my mother too received multiple letters from someone who claims to be a psychic and can help her identify which dates are the typical dates she would be lucke to earn lots of cash according to the stars...and it went straight to the trash cans too...

I had something like that in the mail several years ago - also someone from Canada. I was used to having them via e-mail and realized that there's not a lot you can do about it and the scammers are rarely found. But this being an actual letter, I thought there may be a better chance of tracing them, so I took it to the police station and left it with them. They seemed quite pleased to have it because they said most people don't bother to take them in. They gave it to the fraud department and seemed very optimistic that they would be able to trace it back to where it came from. But I heard no more, so perhaps it led to nothing.. _Derek

Well the sad thing about things like this is that a lot of scammers wouldn't even waste their time if it didn't fool at least some people. They would simply just move on to their next scheme, =/

anybody here knows any cyber police or legal sites to which these scammers may be reported?..i'm quite sure more than 90% of all internet users (assuming that they have an e-mail addie, which is obviously needed in most virtual transaction) had received similar scam e-mails of all sort..

I would be extremely careful before accepting this check. I would show it to your bank and get a good explanation. The chances are the check may be fake. I hope this check is not a disappointment for you, but check it out. Better safe than sorry!

Me too. Of course, by making the premium rate telephone call you are having an effect on your bank account. At about $4 a minute!

whoa...lots of scammers in the world eh? =) im glad you are wise enough not to fall for those kind of people...