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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 245196" data-attributes="member: 1674"><p>Heres another scam that is pretty big right now, according to my banker. Last month, my wife gets a letter and a real looking check for $3100.00. The letter was from a company with a Buffalo, NY address that said she had won $41,000 in some sweepstakes, and the $3100 check was an advance payment for "processing and tax" purposes. The letter had a Canadian postmark and the check was a real looking JP Morgan/Chase check from NYC from a company that was supposed to be a contest sponsor. We went to <a href="http://www.bbb.org" target="_blank">www.bbb.org</a> and could find no listing for the sweepstakes company, but the sponsor company was a real business with a good reputation. That company was closed for the weekend and not answering the phone, so we went to their website and sent an e-mail asking if this was a legit prize. A few days latter, they responded and said it was a scam. The owner said that he had about three fake checks clear his account before he caught on that someone was using his bank account number, so he had closed the account out. My banker said that this is a common scam now, but it was the first time he had seen one with an American check instead of a Canadian check. The point of this scam is that they will ask you to pay the taxes for your winnings before they will "Next Day Air" the $41,000 Grand Prize. Your real check for under $5000 will be cashed by them and they will disappear and can't be traced. We tracked the phone number in the original letter and it was a prepaid cell phone in Canada. My Banker said that since the amounts are under $5000, the government doesn't even try to stop them. We knew this windfall was too good to be true, we didn't fall for it.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/mad.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" data-shortname=":mad:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scratch, post: 245196, member: 1674"] Heres another scam that is pretty big right now, according to my banker. Last month, my wife gets a letter and a real looking check for $3100.00. The letter was from a company with a Buffalo, NY address that said she had won $41,000 in some sweepstakes, and the $3100 check was an advance payment for "processing and tax" purposes. The letter had a Canadian postmark and the check was a real looking JP Morgan/Chase check from NYC from a company that was supposed to be a contest sponsor. We went to [URL="http://www.bbb.org"]www.bbb.org[/URL] and could find no listing for the sweepstakes company, but the sponsor company was a real business with a good reputation. That company was closed for the weekend and not answering the phone, so we went to their website and sent an e-mail asking if this was a legit prize. A few days latter, they responded and said it was a scam. The owner said that he had about three fake checks clear his account before he caught on that someone was using his bank account number, so he had closed the account out. My banker said that this is a common scam now, but it was the first time he had seen one with an American check instead of a Canadian check. The point of this scam is that they will ask you to pay the taxes for your winnings before they will "Next Day Air" the $41,000 Grand Prize. Your real check for under $5000 will be cashed by them and they will disappear and can't be traced. We tracked the phone number in the original letter and it was a prepaid cell phone in Canada. My Banker said that since the amounts are under $5000, the government doesn't even try to stop them. We knew this windfall was too good to be true, we didn't fall for it.:mad: [/QUOTE]
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