Sweepstakes fraud

The Postal Service has a website designed to help you spot false sweepstakes, which is:

https://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/fraud/sweepstk.htm

If you are a victim of sweepstakes fraud, there are several places to report it. To report sweepstakes fraud to the post office:

https://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/fraud/MailFraudComplaint.htm

To report sweepstakes fraud to the Federal Trade Commission:

http://www.consumer.gov/sentinel/

To report sweepstakes fraud to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a federal law enforcement for possible criminal action:

http://www.ic3.gov/

“The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime. The IC3 gives the victims of cyber crime a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of suspected criminal or civil violations. For law enforcement and regulatory agencies at the federal, state, local and international level, IC3 provides a central referral mechanism for complaints involving Internet related crimes.”