I hate it!

I received a letter and a check in the mail today for 3,985.00 - My mother worked in Credit and Collections dealing with credit card and check fraud. She is taking the check to her friend as evidence in the hope to catch these thieving b*****ds before they scam any more people out of their hard earned money.

Harass him and tell him you don't appericiate him commititing back fraud and scamming hard working americans! Hes got a funny accent so it will be well worth your time. If he is commiting bank fraud by ripping off hard working americans he should be able to deal with telephone harrassment.

1-905-783-4544

It's not real.

I got the same letter and check as all of you - $4,980 with instructions to call 905-783-4544 to speak with a Mr. James Robert to make arrangements. And I'd have to send taxes of $3,980 by moneygram or western union (HAHA!) before I could collect the rest of my winnings.

For fun, I called "Mr. Robert" and spoke with a nice foreign-accented man who hung up on me as soon as a started yelling "What's the scam here? How stupid do you think we are???"

The reason for my post, however, is I'm wondering if anyone has advice on the best place to send these docs so that someone will look into this scam?

Thanks,
Greg

i fogot to add that when i asked him to spell his name he hung up.. and so i had my sister call. and she got someone that sounded as if she was in her car.. and said to call the claims agent.............
definately something fishy........ but like i said i will be sending this to my local news.. and if its ligite.. great.. if not.. then GOTCHA!!!!!!
well get them.............

hi there
i too got a letter with the check.. only when i called the guy with a very heavy accent told me that i won from shopping at walmart... or jc penney........ and that i need to deposit it in my account and i would receive word after it cleared on how to pay the taxes and then the rest of the money would be sent to me.. exactly as your friend...
i plan to send this to our local news group and let them know.. and see if they can figure out what is going on............

I also got the same check you got from a Clearing & Forwarding Center.
With same instuctions.  I took mine to the bank and they are going to investigate, and let know something tomorrow (10-8).  I called the person (Nick Bradley) back while I was at the bank and told him that I had deposited the check and he wanted to know if I could send the tax money of $3,980.00 and I told him not until the check cleared my account, because I don't have that kind of money.  He said to call him back when the check had cleared and he would send the remainder of my winnings ($120,000) by Fed-Ex.
He ask if I had a driver's license, because I would have to have that in order to accept a Fed-Ex delivery.  So my bank is working on it to see if it is real or not and the number I called was 416-822-2669 and if they called me I don't answer out of state zip codes.

My friend here at work got one of these letters and thought it sounded fishy.  Like you, he called the number and spoke to the gentlemen.  Then he decided to take it to Union Bank and they determined that this was indeed fraudulent.  DO NOT, I repeat...DO NOT try to deposit this check.  He has faxed over the letter to the bank and they will be working on closing in on the bad guys that are trying to take money out of the good people's pockets.

I got a check too for 4,900.00 from the National H. Rod Association. The letter head on the letter reads, "Associated Consultants Inc." TRORONTO ONTARIO CANADA, Call 1-905-598 5728 ask for Mr. Ray King. He then informed me that I need to cash the check at my bank. And send 3,900.00 to the Tax Agent IRS? Then once this has been proccessed and they get confrimation. They will then send my due balance of 95,100.00, which is be paid out to 10 winners from a total pot of 1,000,000.00 from a sweepstakes computer drawing that had been held on 7/28/2008. Check does read Union Bank of California, Inland Empire, Commercial Banking Office.                                                                     I put in for sweepstakes all the time, but this one smells like a scam! I'm going to do further investigation before I even think about cashing this check. Mr. King has a very heavy Caribbean accent and I find it difficult to understand him.

My wife recieved a letter from "Liberty Financial Inc." in Toronto, Ontario, Cananda?????  It included a check for $4,980.00.  It stated she had won $125 grand USD in a lottery.  It said to call this number BEFORE cashing the check and to speak to James Robert.  Also that she was to pay $3980.00 USD for taxes by MONEYGRAM or WESTERNUNION?????  The check was from 'NATIONAL H. ROD ASSOCIATION' Glendora, CA and drawn on UNION BANK OF CALIFORNIA Riverside, CA.  I checked the routing number on the check, and it is for the Union Bank of California, but there is no "Inland Empire" branch in Riverside per the Union Bank web site!