Supposedly we won $194, 780.000 and an "official check" of $4177.77 was sent to assist me in paying a processing fee! The prize money must be claimed no later than Jan. 10, 2008. Hmm.. The account manager's name is Jason Miller from 874 First Ave. Freeland, PA 50231. The online gaming.com payment verfication center is supposedly in charge of this prize. They listed www.zim.com on the letter, but it's a shipment company. Really odd. How do I verify that this check is fake?
One of my friends got probably the exact same letter as you, and he ended up cashing the check because he figured there was no way harm good be brought to him... It actually DID pass but we're still skepical about sending money back to them in order to get more money... we think that they might somehow take all the money out of our bank account as we've heard about similar stories of this type of con happening.... my suggestion is to deposit the original check... and play into their little game... but after the original deposit you should transfer all your money to a different bank account (except the 2,950 "processing fee"...) and then send them over that money for the processing fee from the original bank account...that might sound complicated, but basically, if this is a scam,what will happen is they wont actually take any money for you because all of your money will be in a different account. I have a question tho... was your envelope also handwritten and have a crooked canadian stamp on it?