Complaint / Review
Activision Blizzard
Payment Verification Center Sweepstakes winnings Calgary Alberta

I received a letter saying I won $248,000 along with a check for $4,985. The check appears on an Activision account. The letter said to contact them, cash the check, and they would send me info on where to wire $3,975 of it for tax purposes. It is a valid-looking check. I called the IRS; the person I spoke to said it could be a valid account with a forged signature and that typically banks don't verify the signature until weeks or months later. If that happened, you'd be out the money you thought you had deposited...