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January 30, 2007
ALERT
Sweepstakes scam currently underway.
Victims of this scam receive:
- A winner notification letter.
- A counterfeit check is enclosed.
- A phone number to call.
Copy of Actual Letter that was mailed
If you received a sweepstakes check from Riverside LLC of Homosassa Florida this concerns you:
- Riverside LLC is not affiliated with this sweepstakes in any way. They, like thousands of other small businesses, are a victim too.
- Riverside LLC does not now, nor have they ever conducted a sweepstakes or lottery.
- Do not try to cash or deposit a check from Riverside LLC in connection with this or any other sweepstakes or lottery. The check is a computer generated check created by the fraudulent international sweepstake company and the signature is stolen in an identity theft. It is a counterfeit, and even if initially honored by your bank, will be returned to your bank as fraudulent by SunTrust Bank of Homosassa Springs. This may result in many additional fees to you.
PRICE AND AWARD PRESENTATION
INTERNATIONAL CLAIM DEPARTMENT
CONSOLIDATED SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY
CLAIM #: CSL/620/01/2007
DATE: January 22nd 2006
ATTN: SIR / MADAM
WINNER CLAIM NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you that you are one of the declared winners in the Consolidated Sweepstakes Lottery held on January 12th 2007 in the 1st category.
You are therefore entitled to receive the sum of $50,000.00 (Fifty Thousand Dollars only). This amount is from a total cash prize of $250,000.00 shared amongst five winners in the first drawing category. Please note that all the participants in this lottery were randomly selected through a computer generated ballot system drawn from over 50,000 participants from Canada and the US.
In accordance with our disbursement policy, your prize winning in the amount of $50,000.00 has been forwarded to our clearing/disbursement center with instructions to release your funds to you. In order to ensure winner security and confidentiality, we have assigned you a password and ask that you keep the information about your winning private until you receive your full amount. This is part of our security protocols to avoid multiple claims.
Please find enclosed, a check in the amount of $4500 being partial payment issued in your name to assist you in paying the Canadian non-resident tax associated with your winning. As a winner in this lottery, you are required to pay the Canadian non resident tax after you have cashed your check. Please call our payment center at (416) 837-3896 to speak with your claim agent FRED JOHNSON for instructions on how to pay the tax.
Note that the amount of $2900.00 has been assesses as tax for your prize winning
In order to avoid delays in the processing of your payment, please remember to quote your reference number and password in every correspondence with our payment center.
YOUR PASSOWRD: ZAB007
Congratulations
Yours truly
Mr BRET ANDERSON
Director, Operations
SWEEPSTAKES SCAM ALERT
Did you get a letter saying you won a sweepstakes that you did not enter? If yes, you are likely a target of an international scam operation.
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Gail Oakes is fighting back against a scam she knew nothing about.
"Word-of-mouth is fraud's worst enemy. PASS THE WORD!"
Do you want to help stop these unscrupulous foreign scam artists?
DON'T CASH THE CHECK ~ DON'T CALL THEM ~ THESE PEOPLE ARE CROOKS!
