My husbend is a victem of a sweepstaks scam can they send him to prision ?

Thank you for your fast response. he used some of the money to pay some bills online so we could get cought up. i got sick and was in hospital missed 3weeks of work. house, truck, car ect. payments over due. I did recover most of the money and i am taking it to the bank this morning. a fellow officer told my husbend he found apollo trust co. website and mr gray is trying to scam people with counterfit checks, Im not sure how he gets his money because the bank called before we called mr gray to let him no the check cleared. my husbend would not have used the money if he had known, but he thought the check was good because the bank put the funds in our acc. but the thought of him going to prision is teriffing, even more so for him because he is police/corectional officer for the state of nevad. would it do any good for us to press charges with the district attorney?

What an awful thing to do! I'm so sorry to hear there are people like that out there!

If you can find Mr. Gray I think you should take him to small claims court for any damages he has caused you - has the bank charged you any fees or anything, plus if the bank makes you pay interest on the money, Mr. Grey should pay for that as well. You should also file a police report if you have not already. I feel for you because my husband enters ever contest he can find - we've been lucky enough not to be scammed yet and I may have learned something from this too :)

Good luck!

The first thing you need to do is sit down with a bank representative and make arrangements to pay the money back with a payment schedule acceptable to both you and the bank. The bank probably permitted you do draw money against the check because you had been a good customer up to that point. It is not known exactly how many people fall for this check scam every year but the number is very high. There is not really anything the victims can do except report it to the police and the Federal Communications Commission. There is very little chance you will ever get a cent of your money back. I'm truly sorry you had to learn the hard way.

That is terrible.

what happened with all of this, since you first posted about this 60 days ago

We had about the some thing hapen to us with wells fargo my son reseved a check for doing work on the cumputer it was 4thousand 700 it was a cashers check some as money we took it to the bank and they scand the check sed it was good my son and his mother opened a savings account with the money he did not have a banking account but he draud 500 dollers for bills we transferd 1500 to our checking and paid bills 5 days later we were informed that the check was no good then they frose our checking and left us woith out apenny my wife went in and tried to work some thing out but they would not talk to us we even offered to pay it back we called every one and tried to talk to them but no one would talk to us know 2 months later the y are calling 4 or 5 time a day saying that we half to talk to them we have done nothing rong they are the ones that told us the check was good and opened a saving account they are the ones that transferd the money they are the ones that would not work with us they are the ones that stold over 900 dollers out our account and left us penney less they are the ones that would not talk to us after we offered to pay back the money there is a law that says if you have a debt and you offer to repay it and they refuse to take payments the debt is null and void it can be found at leagal usa cunsumer .gov find it and use it

Contact The Attorney General's Office in the area that you live in and ask them what to do about this scam that was played on you? I don't believe your husband is in any real legal trouble with the bank as long as he offers to pay back the money in payments. Just remember if you win money in lotteries that you don't remember entering or if you have to send money in order to claim a prize then chances are nearly 1000 percent it's a scam and always check things out with the Better Business Bureau or Attorney General's Office before you do anything.