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My Dad May have just one the lottery
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SO my dad got a check in the mail for 4450$ which was to cover his taxes for him supposidly winning the lottery about 1 year ago they supposedly new it was him bc he bought the winning ticket with his credit card, he supposidly won $250,000 the company was TelCo Inc. and it gave a number for an agent and everything, my dad called the police station to ask if there were any scams going aruond and they said no, so do you think its a scam or not?
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go die?
christ, show some fucken respect jackass
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holy scam. why would they cover your taxes?
is it like "cash this check, then send us the 4,500.00..." for some odd reason. cause there's a lot of scams like that, where the check will clear at first, you send the money, then two weeks later the check bounces.
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they didnt just give us 4500 it was taken out off the elidged winnings and they didnt ask us for any money or anything they didnt ask for a credit card number for us to open a special account for us to do anything its kinda wierd but luckily my grandfather is an attorney so he is gunnna check it out for us
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actually, you can't. not in washington state anyway, you can't gamble on credit, is the idea.
But, this little hole-in-the-wall store lets me buy them on debit, but I can't buy JUST lotto or scratch tickets, I have to buy something else, so they can just tag it onto the purchase.
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I don't understand why they would "take" 4500.00 dollars out of the supposed winnings, and then mail you a check for that amount???
why would you get your taxes back?
oh, and taxes on that amount of winnings would be a lot more than 4500.00. Just saying it's fishy, that's all. Let us know what happens though.
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This is what I would suspect:
The most recent twists, however, are much more sophisticated. Here's how perhaps the most 'creative' one works:
You receive a letter that you won $50,000 in the Australian lottery. If you call, you're told you will receive a check to cover the taxes and/or fees, as well as additional instructions on how to collect your prize.
You then receive an overnight package that includes a check that looks real, in this example, for $2,650.
The check is supposedly issued in line with a federal law declaring that lottery winners must pay taxes and a processing fee on their winnings.
Prize officials include a letter with the check stating that winners can use these funds to make that payment, and then their 'windfall' check will follow in the mail.
The checks look very real, even to bankers who have seen them.
You're supposed to deposit the check and then write a check to cover the costs/taxes from your account.
Naturally, their check is bogus -- while yours is, in fact, real. And that's how you get scammed.
The fact that you are getting a 'real' check from a lottery foundation makes the Foundation seem quite credible. So if they ask you to pay more fees, or provide more information, it may be harder to refuse.
but, if that's not the case, and this turns out to be legit, then congratulations!
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It would be funny as fuck to play along with it and then send them a bad check too.
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Taxes on a 250k lotto would be a lot more than $4k
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hah NVM everyone it was a scamm
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