Eric & Carolynn Gockel Promotions Letter says they are pleased to inform me that I am one of the declared winners of the North American Sweepstakes Lottery held on Oct. 10, 2006 in the 1st category; They sent check for $4,900 to pay for non-resident tax, to deposit check with my bank. ripoff Chicago Illinois
Letter says I am one of the winners of the North American Sweepstakes Lottery held on October 10, 2006 in the 1st category. Am entitled to $100K out of $500K prize money which was shared among four other declared winners. All alleged winners were selected through a random computer ballot system drawn from over 50,000 names. Said further that in accordance with their disbursement policy my prize award money has been forwarded to their clearing/disbursement institution with instruction to release the funds to me.
They gave me a claim number which I am not supposed to disclose to anyone to prevent double claims. That I must contact claims agent to expedite release of funds. Claims agent is Susan Anderson at 1-416-553-3292. They enclosed check for US$4,900 to pay for non-resident tax, asked to deposit check to my bank account and contact claim agent for instruction on how to pay taxes through Western Union or Money Gram so that winnings can be released to me as soon as possible.
The tax amount allegedly is $2,985 USD. They said I must contact agent within 5 business days. Letter signed by Carolynn Gockel, Promotions Manager.
Victor
San Diego, California
U.S.A.
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Eric
Chicago,Illinois,
U.S.A.
Please correct your posting, we are victims as well
#2Consumer Suggestion
Thu, December 07, 2006
This scam did not originate from us. One of our checks was copied or stolen and was used for this scheme (as well as the "Irish Lottery" last month)
Our bank has closed the checking account and cannot do anything else about this scam because the scammers reside in Canada and have been told to work with the US Postal Inspector to hopefully catch them.
thanks,
Eric Gockel