BritishGaming Commision/Wade Raulerson/SunTrust Bank/ Brenda Jones Of Sun Source Finanical Managment Group ripoff sent counterfiet check as a winning to me Calgary British Columbia
I received a check in the mail saying that I won a lottery, the check was for $2994.57 I cashed the check and now the bank want me to pay the money back.
I cashed the check at my mother's bank now they are making her responible, she is 79 years old and live on a income of 600 a month. Please help me to resolve this issue.
Glenda
Newport, Arkansas
U.S.A.
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Dave
New Westminster,British Columbia,
Canada
Where's the money?
#2Consumer Suggestion
Tue, September 12, 2006
I'm going to guess that you had to send cash via Western Union to an address in Alberta.
(Edmonton, where the phone number is registered, and Calgary are both in Alberta.)
Sending money via Western Union is the same as putting money in a bottle and throwing it into the river. No one does business through Western Union anymore, except crooks.
There was no lottery. Even if there were, it's usually illegal for foreign agents to collect.
And lotteries want people to collect in person so they can take their picture for publicity -- to sell more tickets for next time. They don't have any reason to give out money secretly.
I'm afraid this is going to have to be an expensive lesson learned.
But, on the off-chance, file a report with the ftc.gov -- federal trade commission. Include the return address, the phone number, and any contact information you were given. Maybe there's a lot of other people after the same guys and you'll get lucky.