We've seen lottery scams and immitation business scams before, but since I've been working here at this BBB, I've never seen a scam artist try to impersonate the great State of Texas.  But alas, one has popped up in the form of a cash prize winning from the "State of Texas Commissioners of Registration" and the amount is staggering (as in over $1 million).  Of course there's no such thing as the State of Texas Commissioners of Registration and of course the consumer hasn't won this large cash prize.  They will however lose roughly $20 if they send in the prize report claim form in an envelope to try and claim their "money."

We have figured out the company mis-representing the great State of Texas is actually a company based out of Las Vegas and we have informed the Vegas BBB of what we have found.  As a consumer, just make sure you know that you CANNOT win money from a lottery, a drawing or a contest unless you have actually entered.  There is no entity that will randomly pick a person from a random city and give them money for no reason although that would be nice.  So take your chances with scratch-offs and radio station remote drawings, but these unsolicited mailings are something to avoid.