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Another Sweepstakes Scam Letter Delivered To Local Resident
March 21, 2009
A local woman received a $4,750 check and the promise of a $125,000 prize in a sweepstakes when she check her email Friday, but she soon realized it was nothing more than a scam.
She told NorthEscambia.com that the check was in Friday’s mail, but it all sounded too good to be true to the resident that lives between Bratt and Byrneville.
The letter promised that she had one second place in a drawing, and that was worth the $125,000. The $4,750 check was included for her to pay $3,785 in taxes, the letter said. The letter instructed her to call a telephone number that appears to be a cell phone in Montreal, Canada. A person at that number was to instruct her how to pay her taxes after depositing the check.
The letter included the logos of Wal-mart, Sears, Kmart and TJ Max. It had a Canadian stamp.
The local woman tells us she called the Better Business Bureau and was told that the letter was a scam, and she was warned to not cash the genuine-looking check because it would bounce.
“I know that these are some very hard times,” the local woman wrote to NorthEscambia.com “So many people are hoping for a break in life and would most likely fall for this scam in a heartbeat and end up so much worse off than before the letter and check arrived in their mailbox. ”
The scam is very similar to one that cost at least six North Escambia residents thousands of dollars in late February. Read that story here.
Pictured above and below: The check and letter received by a local woman Friday promising her big sweepstakes winning. The Better Business Bureau told the woman that the whole thing is a scam. Submitted for NorthEscambia.com.
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One Response to “Another Sweepstakes Scam Letter Delivered To Local Resident”
The type of people who do this sort of stuff and get away with it at the victims expense, should be locked up and the key thrown away. They are no good, useless trash to society. I hope the on-going investigation pays off and gets them all!