Complaint Review: Fidelity Securities Inc. International Claims Department

I received this letter and of course got very excited. I couldn't remember what it was but I did enter a sweepstakes in Canada on line so I naturally thought nothing but good. I tried calling the # listed for days and could never get through so I went on line to find the company to get another # and found this information. Thank goodness. There is no way I was going to put this in my account but did think about trying to cash it anyway and wait for them to call me. WOW what a bummer. People are having it real hard out here and we have to deal with this kind of crap. WOW!!!!!

This is the exact letter I received. Hopefully we can help before anyone else is duped. I am sending this to everyone in my email list also to warn everyone.

FIDELITY SECURITIES INC
INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS DEPARTMENT
483 BAY ST. TORONTO ONTARIO
M2G-2N7S CANADA
OFFICE LINE 1-416-837-1683

December 30, 2008
Claim No: YKS/TFH-0321
Attn: my name

Winning Final Notification
We are pleased to inform you that you are one of the declared winners of NORTH AMERICAN SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY held on SEPTEMBER 20TH, 2008 in the 2nd category.

We have made many unsuccessful attempts to contact you regarding this winning. You are therefore entitled to the sum of $125,000.00 US Dollars. This is from total prize money of $4 Million US Dollars that was shared and presented among the other 32 declared winners. Please note that all the participants were selected through a random computer ballot system drawn fromover 500,000 names.

In accordance with our disbursement policy your prize award money has beenforwarded to our Clearing/disbursement institution to release your funds to you.

Your claim number is YKS/TFH-0321 and has been assigned to our north American Claims Affiliate. to expedite the processing, enclosed is the check of $4,875 US Dollars which has been deducted from your winning. The sole purpose of the FIRST CHECK is for the payment of applicable GOVERNMENT TAXES on your big winnings. Government taxes cannot be deducted from the winning amount because of the insurance bond policy coverage.

The tax amount is USD $2,875 (TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS) to be paid either by WESTERN UNION OR MONEYGRAM diectly to the tax agent.

Please do not attempt to use this check until you call. We urge you to keep this winning CONFIDENTIAL until your claim has been processed and your cash remitted to you as this is part our protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by non participants taking advantage of this program. You are advised to contact your claim agent immediately for further clarification as indicated below within 10 business day.

(CLAIMS/DISBURSEMENT AGENT) MRS. NICOLE SUTHERLAND

DIRECTLINE: 1-416-837-1683

Congratulations

(Signed by)-BMallard

Yours Truly

BENNETT MCDONNELL (Promotion Manager).
Office Hour: 9.00am to 8.00pm (Mon to Fri) Saturday: 10.00am to4.00pm (EST)

The Check enclosed with this letter :
Fidelity Securities Inc, 100 Bayer Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15205

Mellon Trust of New England Everett, MA 02149
Check number 510091099
Date 12/30/2008
Amount $**4,875.00
my name, address
'void after 60 days from check date

signed Douglas R Strief (spelling of signature could be wrong)

thank you for your attention to this matter. wouldn't want anyone to fall for this and lose their money.

April
Trinidad, Colorado
U.S.A.