I received a letter in the Mail stateing that I had won 2nd place in the USA Departal Stores Lottery held on August 16, 2013 for 250,000.00. a check was enclosed for 4,685.00 from the Cognoptix, Inc. company drawn on the SVB Silicon Valley Bank Santa Clara, Ca. to be used to pay documentation and tax fees of 3,400.00 payable by western union to tax agents Galen Heckler and Fred Kruszka. Afyer researching on line I discovered that this is a scam