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my daddy recieved a letter titled CCB Trust Finance Inc wtih the under title USA Lotterysweepstakes. In small letters it reads Division of unclaimed funds. Address 3800 Las Vegas, NV 89101 Phone # 778-707-9191 Claim Number : TD 500 ADM
Final Notice.
The letter implies that he won $250,000 and the Multi-State Lottery Association has contracted them to locate winners and HELP them with the claiming process! Included was a check for $4905.70 to cover taxes, insurance, handling and shipping fees. It also included the tax amount on the winnings would be $2500. Then it goes on to say that they will bring the remaining amount to your door step AFTER completeing the claim. TONY NEWTON claims manager @ 778-707-9191 wants my daddy to call him to activiate the cheque. It was given a PIN number with 3 letters 3 numbers and 3 more letters to use when contacting USA LOTTERY SWEEPSTATES.
After researching this information from this letter, I read about the followng information:
the check is a ligitmate account you deposit into YOUR personal account, but YOUR personal information is what the claims people need to wipe out your entire account and leave you with charges beyond your paying ability!.
IT IS A SCAM!!! DO NOT SIGN THE CHECK OR CASH THE CHECK OR TRY TO DEPOSIT THE CHECK!!!! tHE AMOUNT ON THE CHEcK IS A NORMAL MONTHLY PAYROLL DEPOSIT INTO THE ACCOUNT NUMBER ON THE CHECK. SCAMSCAMSCAM!!!!
I few weeks prior to the reciept of this letter, a man called daddy and told him that he had won a big amount of money and alot of items and that they needed $100 to get the winnings to him to pay for tolls into the USA, since they were out of USA. He went to get a $100 card and called them back giving them the information on the card to get the $100 and they told him they would call when they arrived in the USA. The next day they called him and told him that they were in the USA and needed $90 more dollars to get to his house. A light bulb came on in his head and he told them not to ever call him back again. He called me and I told him to NEVER give people money to give him money. If they had 100's of thousands of dollars to go give away, then they should have the money to get it to him. He called the phone operator and she told him the phone was registered in Jamaica! That shoud tell you something.
If you don;t work, you shouldn't eat. STOP trying to get something for nothing!!!!!!!!!!! just sayin'

my daddy recieved a letter titled CCB Trust Finance Inc wtih the under title USA Lotterysweepstakes. In small letters it reads Division of unclaimed funds. Address 3800 Las Vegas, NV 89101 Phone # 778-707-9191 Claim Number : TD 500 ADM
Final Notice.
The letter implies that he won $250,000 and the Multi-State Lottery Association has contracted them to locate winners and HELP them with the claiming process! Included was a check for $4905.70 to cover taxes, insurance, handling and shipping fees. It also included the tax amount on the winnings would be $2500. Then it goes on to say that they will bring the remaining amount to your door step AFTER completeing the claim. TONY NEWTON claims manager @ 778-707-9191 wants my daddy to call him to activiate the cheque. It was given a PIN number with 3 letters 3 numbers and 3 more letters to use when contacting USA LOTTERY SWEEPSTATES.
After researching this information from this letter, I read about the followng information:
the check is a ligitmate account you deposit into YOUR personal account, but YOUR personal information is what the claims people need to wipe out your entire account and leave you with charges beyond your paying ability!.
IT IS A SCAM!!! DO NOT SIGN THE CHECK OR CASH THE CHECK OR TRY TO DEPOSIT THE CHECK!!!! tHE AMOUNT ON THE CHEcK IS A NORMAL MONTHLY PAYROLL DEPOSIT INTO THE ACCOUNT NUMBER ON THE CHECK. SCAMSCAMSCAM!!!!
I few weeks prior to the reciept of this letter, a man called daddy and told him that he had won a big amount of money and alot of items and that they needed $100 to get the winnings to him to pay for tolls into the USA, since they were out of USA. He went to get a $100 card and called them back giving them the information on the card to get the $100 and they told him they would call when they arrived in the USA. The next day they called him and told him that they were in the USA and needed $90 more dollars to get to his house. A light bulb came on in his head and he told them not to ever call him back again. He called me and I told him to NEVER give people money to give him money. If they had 100's of thousands of dollars to go give away, then they should have the money to get it to him. He called the phone operator and she told him the phone was registered in Jamaica! That shoud tell you something.
If you don;t work, you shouldn't eat. STOP trying to get something for nothing!!!!!!!!!!! just sayin'

A SWEEPSTAKES WINNING OF $250.000.00; they sent me a check of $4,200.00 TO CONTACT KRISTEN REYNOLDS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AT THIS NUMBER

Of course they change the numbers ... it's a scam.  What would you do if you ran a scam?  "probably a continuation of the above scam"?  DUHHHHHHH!!! Are you deaf, dumb, and blind?

You must be kidding me?  Okay ... so this was in 2009.  Did you learn your lesson the hard way that year?  I'll bet that at the very least you got charged by your bank for a bad check.  I hope you didn't actually try to get the cash.  Did you?  This is the most obvious scam and it has been going on for decades; so there is nothing new here.  Do you really think that an address, company name, telephone number or whatever reallly means it's a good check?  I'll bet the check even had security features that passed the test.  Do you think some benevolent force of the universe (the Prize Fairy?) was just going to come along and drop 248,000 dollars in your lap for absolutely no reason?  Of course not.  So please, for your own good, stay away from the mailbox ... let someone else pick your mail up for you ... let them pay our bills ... etc...  Next, please visit your doctor and get a checkup ... you might have dementia.

My family received this check for $4,455.00 and we might be thinking that it is a scam not really sure and it is from this KEN GOODMAN..... anyone heard of this guy????

Thank you for your post I will send my check in as well.

I got a check for 4,870.00. Call the number and someone by the name of Debbey Jones answer on
778 858-8458 and told me I have won 170,000 from the consumer promotion sweepstakes drawing and she asked me to deposit the check.
I didn't believe a thing and goggle, the company, WALGREENS FINANCIAL SERVICES, it is a legit bus.   Also the NORTHEN TRUST COMPANY, and this is also a ligit bank, so I was almost a believer until my husband asked me to call the bank in Los Angeles, when I called of course there isn't such an acc #.  So this people want you to deposit the check, it won't get pay and they have your account number. I don't know exactly how they get your money but PLEASE DON'T DEPOSIT THE CHECK!
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IT IS A SCAM. I check with the bank, The Northern trust Company and the account doesn't exist.

DON'T DO IT IT IS A SCAM, CHECK WITH THE BANK.

got the same call,"you have won $500,000.00...driver is waiting for instruction to get to your home, but first you must go to your bank and draw out $1,450.00..it must be sent to so and so...name he gave was"DALE HARDY" 514-581-5504 number no longer exist...yesterday I get a letter from Bonsal Industries Georgia Inc...with a check for the amount of $3,500.00, payment will be made when a deposit $3,150...of course I'm not going to do either...please beware..do not fall for these predators...can't believe people are so cruel...claim agent on this BILL HONEY way 1866-842-6416

I just received a letter with a check for $3,859.42 stating that i had won $129,000 in the second category of International general market survey draw... So, curious me, i called the number.  Which was 778-861-6337. The name of the "claim agent" was "Josh Mathias"... He had a strange accent and the number was a British Columbia number.  He told me to go deposit the check in my account and then call them so they could take the tax portion out of my account.  So I took the check to CHASE which was the issuing bank to get it checked out... They ran the routing number and it pulled all sorts of red flags.  Please beware, according to lottery rules and regs if you truly do win ANY kind of lottery, they will take the tax amount out of your winnings and send you the rest... there is NO sending them money... INSANITY... this is the second scam in a week for me!!!! Last one was that i had won 2.5 million and a brand new mercedes benz!!!!! LOL

I was e mailed several times telling me I had won I Million 5 hundred thousand.  Next I was called by a
broken English speaking Jamacan called Tony Black. (Jamaican name?)  I hung up but was repeatedly
recalled.  They want me to go to Western Union at Wallmart.  They gave me info to give them.  I would
receive a package.  They will call until I am home with it.  A courier will be sent to pick it up and I will
receive my check.  Sounds like drug smuggling to me.  At the very least it is a scam.  I went along with
it and then called the police with my info.  They weren't the least interested.  Said to ignore it....that it
is a scam.  Now I am nearly 80, but I am still wise and alert and know an illegal scam when I see it.
I am disappointed in the Dallas police.  There are MANY, MANY, MANY very gullible and naive seniors
out there who will lose their life savigs.  Something should be done!

I got the letter too. I called Mr.Hardy who has a heavy accent insisted that I deposit the check immediatelely and call him letting him know that the check had cleared. I asked him where exactly I had purchased or entered this suposed sweepstakes and he said that it may have been home depot, macys or another store. I hope

I also received the same letter from CCB & Trust Finance INC. check was for $5,993.59 to cover taxes on the winnings of $200,000.00. Claim agent Mike Hardy phone # 1-778-861-8977.

Just received the same package. Thank you for putting this scam alert out.

Thanks for doing your homework Maggie. Just spoke with Special Agent Barbara Kellamban and am sending the bogus check and letter to her for fingerprint analysis.

I couldn't figure out what the game was - just having your bank account number isn't enough. The deal is that they have you deposit the check and then wire just part of that back to them. That is where they get you. You wire money back to them, the check bounces and you are screwed, but they have your money.

My 84 year old mother in law received this. Fortunately she gives these kinds of things to us rather than acting on them.

don't disappoint the scammers, cash it and see, sucker!

Hi.  I also got a letter and a check yesterday to help pay non resident tax. Did you cash the check and was it real?  Sure looks real to me and the Forex financial services is a real business...the check was from Bosal Industries in Lavonia GA..which is also a real place but manufactures auto parts (???) Thanks

My mother received a letter and check also.  Letter from CCB & Trust Finance Inc, 102 Franklin St., Las Vegas, Nv.  Name of company on the check is BONSAL INDUSTRIES GEORGIA INC, PO Box 230, Lavonia, Ga 30553-0230

I called Bonsal Industries and was told that the check is written on a stolen account.  I was instructed to contact Barbara Kellamban (404-222-4819) a US Secret Service Special Agent.  Upon calling the Sec. Service, I have been instructed not to handle the letter, check or envelope any more than necessary, and send all three items to:

US Secret Service
Special Agent Barbara Kellamban
401 W Peachtree St., Ste 2900
Atlanta, Ga.  30309

Once money is involved in scams then fraud units can take action.
This is a case of fraud and I am thrilled that something is being done about it!

*NOTE:  Some letters will reference Readers Digest.  Don't hesitate to look up the company on the check and call them.  I was told that if you deposit the check into your personal account, you may then be liable for the money.

I recieved the same type of letter and it sounds like a Iranian on the phone you can tell he is a foriegn Iraq person it was the same CCB & TRUST FINANCE INC. DATED 2/1/2010. TYPE UP. HAS A CLAIM NUMBER AND FORIEGN GUY SAYS HE IS MIKE HARDY RIGHT OFF THE BAT I KNEW HE WAS A SCAMMER AND i HUNG UP AND SAID GOT TO GO.tHE CHECK IS FOR $3,997.39.tHE SAME INFO ABOUT ITS DEDUCTED FROM YOUR WINNINGS ITS TO PAY TAXES ON YOUR WINNINGS. I WANT TO TELL AS MANY PEOPLE AS I KNOW ABOT THIS SCAM-THIS IRANIAN WANTS ME TO KEEP THE LETTER TO MYSELF TIL I RECIEVE THE WINNINGS THIS TURNED ON A LIGHT SWITCH WHEN HE SAID DON'T SHOW ANYONE YOUR LETTER FOR THEY MAY CAIM YOUR WINNINGS HE IS FULL OF CRAP- ANYWAY I PROBABLY MAIL IT TO THE NEWSPAPER TO MAKE EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY AWASRE OF THIS SCAM OR MIGHT JUST THROW IT AWAY AFTER I LET AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS SCAM..YOUR RIGHT THERE JUST TRYING TO GET MY BANK ACCT. NUMBER BECUS HE WANTED ME TO DEPOSIT IT RIGHT AWAY AND CALL HIM. ISAID WHATEVER SCAMMER GOT TO GO AND HUNG UP.

I RECIEVED CCB & TRUST FINANCE INC. LETTER INFORMING YOU WON A MARKET SURVEY DRAWING, AND WAS GIVE YOU A CHECK TO PAY TAXES.  THIS A SCAM OUT OF BC CANADA THAT TRIES TO GET YOUR BANK INFO. HE GOSE BY THE NAME "MIKE HARDY" AND HIS NUMBER 1-778-858-1905.

i recieved a check for 2,450.00 assuming it to be a scam so i called the bank and it was a ligit account and a real check BUT STILL A SCAM only this was drawn on the key bank in washington on pierce college account...  the number to call was ben anderson or jerry morgan 1-778-858-8416......

I received a letter from CCB& Trust Finance. The address, 102 Franklin Street in Las Vegas does not exist.  There is a Franklin Avenue however.  Phone traces back to Westminister, British Columbia.
I was going to call them and do some reverse marketing with them to see if they were interested in a legitimate business. LOL
I was tempted to spend 10 bucks to find out who the cell phone was registered to, but I decided not to waste my money

I received a letter with a check for $3,750 telling me that it was partial winnings for Reader's Digest. When we called the person by the name of Brent Lawson - he said I received the letter because I purchased items through WalMart online. I figured this was a scam and wanted to get the word out to not cash the check!!!!

Received same check & letter as Okie 69 above just today. I received a similar one a year or so ago. Checked it oput with the state. DEFINITELY a scam DO NOT CASH THE CHECK, since it will bounce & they are only trying to get your bank account info.

We've also had NUMEROUS calls recently - all originating from Jamaica, saying we have won $250,000. Obviously they want me to play along so they can also get my bank account info. HANG UP ON THEM!

My wife received a letter from CCB & Trust Finance INC., 102 Franklin St., Las Vegas, NV. 89180, P.O. Box 57171, Langley, BC. V3T 9H2, with a check for $3,970.00 to cover tax expenses. Total award was $150,000.00 for winning the second category of the international general market survey draw. Telephone number on the letter was 1-778-858-1905. Claim agent was Mike Hardy. Check referenced Foley Hoag out of Boston, MA. with Citizen Bank at the top. This is probably a continuation of the above scam but they changed their telephone number and contacts.

THE NEWEST NUMBER RUNNING THE SAME SCAM AND HAS A LETTER WITH THE SAME WINNING NUMBERS ON THIS ONE AS THE ONE SHOWN ABOVE. DIFFERENT COMPANY NAME BUT SAME CLAIMS AGENT BOB STEPHEN'S AND HIS CELL NUMBER IS 1-778-858-5403. SAME CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER JIM LINDBERGH.  THIS ONE HAS HAZSCO FINANCIAL.  YOU CAN CALL AND SPEAK WITH BOB HE SAYS HE IS FROM JAMAICA. HE THINKS IT IS FUNNY TO SCA, FOLKS. ALL I CAN SAYS TO YOU BOB IS CHARMA AND MAY YOUR FAMILY FACE 10 FOLD. IT IS A SCAM FOLKS. SO MANY PEOPLE STILL FALL FOR THESE SCAMS. IT IS ESPECIALLY BAD AT THE HOLIDAY TIME OF YEAR. ASK YOUR BANK BEFORE YOU TRY AND GET THE FUNDS FOR SOMETHING YOU DONT NOTHING ABOUT. IN SOME SITUATIONS THEY CALL YOU AND THEN SEND THE LETTER MAKING IT LOOK LIKE YOU WON AFTER YOU ENTERED WITH THEM ON THE PHONE. THEN THEY HAVE JUST ENOUGH OF YOUR PERSONAL INFO TO HOOK YOU IN. BEWARE.

Didn't get a call, just a letter with a check for $2400.00 to cover insurance and taxes. I tried to Snopes.com it and nothing came up. I typed in the address (1916 Pike Pl. Ste.845 Seattle,WA)all there was were restraunts at that address. then I googled the number which let me know that it was based out of Vancouver, Canada. I don't think I am going to cash it.

got check for $4910 & taking to Chase to authenticate.  Letter say I won the
sweepstake Draw 6-30-09  $248K. Chek to help pay tax. Call Michael Chung.
There are no conditions in the letter.  So I will cash to see if it
bounces.  I googled the address on the check.
The address on the check is to a
Capital Lumber  but it just say "Capital"

2111 E Highland Ave Ste 155
Phoenix AZ, 85016 - 4757

Tel: (602) 381-0709