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This Practor guy is full of it...

Don't call the number.
Don't ask anyone's advice.
Don't think of ways to cash the check.

Just rip it up and throw it away.

Reporting it will not solve the problem because these checks get imported from other countries and American authorities have no control over any of the institutions involved.

I also received the letter and check from Tim Walters  today.  No legitimate business would ask you to send money like this.  This is definitely a scam.  BEWARE!   I am unemployed, and believe me, this would be wonderful.  But, I can already smell fraud.   Don't fall for it.  If only six people received this letter as stated, then why are more than six people posting messages here?

my wife got the same letter yesterday and boy i was excited for a minute until i opened another envelope and i got one too. the checks look pretty damn real.

the one my wife got was from homepokergames.com and the check was for $2870 from Cabarrus Bank and Trust in North Carolina. she won only $95,000.

the one i got was from Trust Investment Fund LLC and the check was for $4395 from Commerce Bank N.A. i won $253,000.

if it's too good to be true it's too good to be true. i still want to stick it in their [***] and report these idiots.

what would have happened if you let the check clear and then did not send the tax check

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE ON THIS BLOG.  WE just recieved the check and the police are coming to our house. The give a way was the web site for Libra Finance. When you click on contacts nothing comes up.  We knew it was too good to be true.  After the police leave, we are going to a Santoria and placing a curse on the people who sent this to us. We are young, but I imagine we are not the people they are trying to fool.

My dad got the same exact check today. What really tipped things off for it being fake was the fact that it had no return address and that it came from Canada. I decided to search on the internet to see if others have had the same problem...
I do have one question though, if none of you don't mind saying so, what was the name that the checks were made for? My fathers was Jorge J Escalante...but that's not his name. Then when I looked up this type of scam I came across a site where the check was made to a Jorge A Escalante. A picture of the check was posted and it looked EXACTLY like the one that my father received, minus the name of course. It sounds a bit stupid, but I'm thinking that a bit of the checks are being issued to some type of "Jorge Escalante?"

my father revd a ck from homepoker.com for $2840.00 from huntington ntl bank.
suposed to call 647-818-4286 and speak w/tim waltera/libra finance, looked up
ph# on web and found out it's a scam, glad i did because my 80 yr old dad was
ready to cash it. to good to be true.

my husbad just received a letter and the new number is 647.686.8184 and the new name is daid walter. beware this is a scam and still going on.

My wife just received a check in the amount of $2490.00.We thought its real.The letter instructed my wife to call Mr. David Walter to call this number 647-686-8184 to walk through the entire process.Thank you all for your testimonies and thank God that He lead us to this website.

if aredy got the money from the check for 2870 dollars and if i cancel my bank acount and get a new account couldt i keep the money and put it on my new acount?  plese reply for any advise

This is exactly what happened to my husband. Today we are going to the police as what the bank advice. Mr Walters and his cohorts must be put to jail.

My husband received this same letter with a check for $2490.  He called the number 1-647-686-8184 and spoke to Mr David Walter. He was instructed to cash the check, (immediately because the system would boot him out as winner in three days if he didn't pay these "taxes" by then), then call him back and he would direct him where to pay the $2490 taxes.  We called back to clarify where to pay the taxes and he said we must have the cash in hand when he directs us because once he gives us the location they must be paid immediately.  We were already weary and that gave us a heads up something was wrong. I searched HomePokerGames.com and found this website.  So thank you everyone.  We took the check to our bank and they checked it and said it was a fraudulent check and they are now investigating.

These letters are not coming "from homepokergames.com". Saying that is like saying you got an email "from Paypal" or "from the FBI" asking for your passwords. These people are impersonating other organizations.

Anytime you get a check asking you to call a number or to wire money it is a scam. You shouldn't inspect the check to see if it's real. Inspecting these checks would be like reading your spam email every day and deciding if the Nigerian spam you received that day saying you won $80 million dollars was legitimate or not. You need to learn to start throwing these away without thinking.

Here is a link to explain how these scams work: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30968506/

i receive the letter too, and the check,
dont event think about it, this is a fraud
if  u get the check just destroy it because you will not get any of the money they promise. it is just a way to take advantage of people, they know this is a time when every one will be glad to get some extra cash
so just dont cash the check because you loss

Got same scam but letter was from MR. Harmond Lloyd. BEWARE. Supposed winnings $95,000 / check $2820.

I got the same letter but we had to call Mr. Harmon Lloyd from Canada at
1-877-232-9548.
Our check was for $2,830
can we cash this and not send it in? forget the $95K -- I could use it for christmas right now!

i didnt get a call i got a letter told me to call a mr.harmond lloyd

CHECK IS A FRAUD.
My grandfather recd a check from Best Poker Games International for the amount of $2,830. And as the other comments, you have to cash the check first, pay your taxes with that money and then they will send you the balance from the $95,000. The check is drawn from Capital Credit Union out of Bismark, ND. I didn't call the number on the check. I googled the address and  its a legit bank. So  I called the bank (number directly from the bank's website) to verify if the check is valid and if there are funds, the lady ask who signed the check, I told her Ana V. something (couldn't read the last name). She confirmed that the "check is fraudulent".
TOTAL SCAM

thanks for the link...very informative.