This place called Skyline Gaming Group is a lottery scam and nobody really knows about them out of Canada. They send you a packet which inside is some material and a check for $2,600.00 and that you won $265,000 and the $2,600.00 is for paying for the taxes. You call them toll free number they give you and a women answers and tells you to fax your ID showing it is you. You hang up and get call later saying everything is ok to put check in the bank. Well you put check in the bank thinking if it bounces its a scam deal well it clear so a person thinks this is for real. Well the next day after go to the bank and make a money gram out for paying for the taxes and send it off. You get a call back because they want reference number & answer to question you have on the gram before people get the money that was transfered. So I got a call that they got the money and I would get mine 3 to 4 days and a cashiers. Seven days after this was dun the bank tells me the $2,600.00 was bad all this.
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1) Contact your bank and let them know what happened.\n\n2) Contact your local FBI (link below)\n\nGood golly  - you sent them your ID?\n\nGeez, get to work on protecting what's left of your identity - now!\n\nIF you faxed them your ID they have enough to get your Social Sec # (if US) and enough to get any government ID in another country. \n\nLinks below to start you off.\n\nGood Luck!
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Here's some signs of a lotto scam:\n\n*You never paid money or bought a ticket to enter.\n*Your "winning" notification is probably not personalized.\n*Your "winning" notification came by email, probably from a free email address such as yahoo.com or msn.com.\n\nIf you answer the email, after one or two email exchanges with the so-called "lottery officials" or "claims agent," perhaps accompianied by some official looking but fake documents, you'll be asked to pay fees for "taxes" or "handling" or some other reason. This is the scam - you pay the fees and never see any winnings, mainly because there are none to see.
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Listen, I received a check a couple of days ago too. I took it to a check cashing place and asked them if it was a real check and they said yes and cashed it for me. However I didn't understand the letter very well. I called the number several times with no answer. Finally the next day I called again and a man answered with an accent and told me to go cash the check and call him back and he would tell me the next step to take.  I was scared so I notified a friend of mine in Canada and he told me that it is a scam. Now I'm not sure what to do...
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Best advise for you would be to contact your local police and have them follow up on this. If it is legit, then all is good, but if not, let them worry about it. Whatever you do, do not cash the cheque or provide any personal information. You may also contact the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, they have investigators that deal with scams(?) such as this.
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SCAM, dude. I read an article about it awhile back.\n\nThey told me I had won and I live in the US LOL.\n\nStay away and do not give those people any personal info, please.\n\nI beg you.
352308
You sound like you received the ages old Nigerian chain letter telling you they will give you a percentage of money if you just give them a valid account number to put money into. DO NOT BELIEVE IT! \n\nThat is why the scam works, is because they get suckers to put a few thousand bucks in an account, then you give them access, and they take your money out and it ends up in Africa or Hong Kong, or some other country that does not have as strict rules on businesses as in North America.\n\nCheck out the FBI website, or in Canada the RCMP website and they can give you some good info on what types of scams are going on and what to do about them.\n\nImagine their email reaches just 100,000 people. Out of that only 1% respond and they manage to steal $1000 per person, that is still a $1,000,000 jackpot for them.
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STOP...  it's a total SCAM!!!  Don't do it.  the key is they say u bring 600 Canadian $$$.  Find a direct # to the location then call to verify all the infomation.  If you do anything... don't send them the money, you'll be out 600 Canandian $$$.
94743
Do Not Do! If you win something they should not ask for cc# or bank account#. Report it immediately. Go to yahoocustomerservices.com then answer form. Hurry
359543
yet another "gimme your money" scam....
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Did you buy a lottery ticket?\nIf not this is a scam. I get about five per day.\nJust delete it and ignore it..\n\nwww.fraudaid.com/ScamSpam/Lottery/lottery_scam_names.htm www.scambuster419.co.uk/lottery.htm\nantivirus.about.com/cs/hoaxes/p/lottery.htm\nwww.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/lotterywin.htm\n\n please forward it to mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com.
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its probably not true...most of those are hoaxes or jokes that will ask for your bank account number and take a bunch of money instead of put some in like they promise...i would ignore it, you wont get any money. sorry! : (
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I received a letter from this group stating that I won an award, I threw it in the trash and started investigating. It is a fraudulent organization. Also, be aware that a letter is being circulated in which a person posing as an artist is looking for someone to open an account in their country in order to accept money orders and send the cash to them in the Netherlands. Don't fall for this ploy. A lady accepted a large sum of money in the form of Money Orders from a person who wanted to move to the U. S. The person, a few days later, wanted her to send two thousand dollars to him, stating that it was an emergency, \nshe sent the money only to find out that the money orders had been stolen and she was out two thousand dollars and had a visit from the authorities. Let's use our smarts in these situations.
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Scam, scam, scam.  I got the same thing.  Look up Lotto scams on the net and look up their name.  You'll see.  Sorry, I know it's a bummer.
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Hmm, did you know that In both the U.S. and Canada, it's illegal to play a foreign lottery - through the mail or on the telephone or Internet?  Call the company and ask them how it is legal for them to sell you tickets.\n\nFrom the Federal Trade Commission: \nfull text here: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/tmarkg/crossbrdr.htm\n\nInternational Lotteries:\n\nMost promotions for foreign lotteries are likely to be phony. Many scam operators don't even buy the promised lottery tickets. \n\nOthers buy some tickets but keep the "winnings" for themselves. In addition, lottery hustlers use victims' bank account numbers to make unauthorized withdrawals or their credit card numbers to run up additional charges.\n\n(snip, some content deleted)\n\nIn both the U.S. and Canada, it's illegal to play a foreign lottery - through the mail or on the telephone or Internet. Don't add insult to injury by inviting federal charges.
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My roommate got caught in the same scam. The girl told him she loved him and sh*t like that. Saying that she needed him to cash the money order, and send the money to her sister. He got screwed out of 120,000 bucks. He went to the police but there was nothing they could do. That was over two years ago and he's still paying back the bank. Really sad that people are still falling for the scam now...even sadder that the people are keeping up the scam. At least you're smart and know it was a scam. What the police told my ex roommate was that there's no way to tell who the person is, so the most you can do is report it to yahoo. They'll pull the account, but they'll only create another one and be back out doing it in ten mins.
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Its a scam!\nYou cannot have an international lottery as the gambling laws differ in every country.\nThe scammers say it is "International" so as to cover every country.\nIf you want to check a email you think might be a scam go to www.scamomatic.com\nLotterys work like this:\n1)10,000 people pay 1 dollar/euro/pound/yen....etc\nThe lottery company now has 10,000\n\n2) the lottery company holds a draw and gives out 7,000 in winnings (and keeps the profit 3,000)\n\nScams work like this:\n-1)nobody pays money (there is no money to win)\n\n0)a scammer sends out 10,000 spam emails to tell people they have won a lottery they havn't entered.(they pretend they work for real lottery websites)\n\n2)The Scammer asks for your Personal details (be prepared! your inbox is going to be full of emails asking for you personally...and dont get me started on what they are gonna do with your Bank details!)\n\n3)The scammer tells you that you have to pay fees before you can accept the "winnings" (and NO,you cant pay out of the winnings! they dont exist!....silly maga)\n\n4)The scammer manages to con 3 people out of 1000 and gives all his profits to a charity for orphaned goats (he dosn't really...he keeps it ;) )\n\n5)Your inbox gets more mails than help@microsoft.com\nEverything from "You have won anotther sooperdooperlottry" to "CHAN U B A NEXT OF KIN" to "Please join our company,cash our checks,send us the money until your bank realises you are laundering money for us?)\n\nThe moral of the story is...If it sounds too good to be true... It probably is
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Any one that sends money to  them is an idiot. Dont even report it, let them get some suckers. If you get a call from jamaica saying you won the jamaican lottery, ask yourself.."did I even go to jamaica?"....Stupid ppl fall for this all the time. LET THEM. Just like the nigerian scam where the bank president wants to make you an heir to a dead millionaire. If ppl are greedy enough to believe that crap, let them take a fall. That sounds callous, but oh well...