Apex Financial Services ,Scam artist targeting elderly Sydney, Nova Scotia Canada
This scam is targeting elderly people, who by nature are more trusting, and believe that a person's word is bound by honor. Unfortunately, those days are gone.
My mother has been receiving these bogus "awards" assuring her that she has won millions of dollars. Of course, she hopes that this could be a way she could help her children in these difficult financial times, however, heartless, soul-less companies such as Apex Financial are deperately trying to convince her that if she would send in just a "minimal amount" to pay taxes, etc, that they will send her tons of money. She, like countless other elderly Americans, lives on a fixed income, and being hounded by criminals is uncalled for, and cruel.
It is my hope that anyone who is contacted by this bunch of crooks is appalled enough to report it in any manner that might get public recognition.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Business Owner
Salt Lake City,Utah,
U.S.A.
Apex Financial Services
#3Consumer Comment
Sat, October 23, 2010
My own mother, 94 and senescent, received a similar letter from "Apex" today. Same deal, phony check for $4500 - very authentic looking - and instructions from "Oscar Willis" at 778-895-3422. I have reported it at the RCMP site. I doubt they can do much, this throw-away phone will be gone within a week, but doing nothing is worse than doing something.
On occasion, these scumsuckers slip up and get caught. Keep the heat on them, and protect your loved ones.
Christina
Grove City,Ohio,
United States of America
Apex Financial
#3Consumer Comment
Sat, October 02, 2010
My mother received 2 of these "winning" letters also. Her letters were supposedly from 2 different companies (one was Apex Financial, the other was P & S Services). I noticed many similarities between the letters. I don't think they're coming from the companies listed on the letters at all. I think the scammer is just simply taking real company names and making up their own letterhead, which is very easy to do with any word processor software. They are printing up bogus checks but using legitimate names. The companies listed on the checks were suspect so I looked them up on the internet and I can't imagine why a company that manufactures laminate flooring and another that manufactures compressors would have much to do with a lottery payout. What I also noticed was that both envelopes had no return address, which most "real" companies do and although these companies were hundreds of miles apart, they had the same brand of envelope and same stamp and both mailed from Canada, even though one of them was a US company. For more info on this particular scam I found USA Mega's website had examples imaged of the letters and the authentic looking checks that is part of this scam. (((Redacted)))
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