Complaint Review: Harborside Financial Services

Received letter and check (for $2990). Check has Morgan Stanley on top left, drawn on Citibank Delaware. After reading other reports, this matches to other reported fraud scams. Text of the letter (our address and claim number ommitted) is below.


Harborside
FINANCIAL SERVICES
228 King Street, Midland ON, L4R 3M2: Tel: 1-705-350-0084; Fax: 1-705-526-0099
A Division of Harborside financial Services, Plaza II, 1st Floor, Jersey City, NJ 07311
April 2nd, 2007

RE: FINAL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you through this letter that our network shows you as the lucky winner of unclaimed prize money in the amount of Eighty Five Thousand dollars ($85,000.00) in United States funds. The system indicates that your name was randomly selected through a computerized ballot system as a winner for the 2007 sweepstakes draws. Congratulations!

All Participants were selected through a computerized ballot system drawn from Readers Digest, Publishers Clearing House, Online Sweepstakes, Internet games etc

Enclosed, please find a check of $2990.00 which covers both the administrative payment and clearance fees of your winnings. For authorizing and processing of your prize please contact your North American agent, Mr. Richard WELLINGTON, upon receipt of this letter, at 1-705-350-0084. Your winnings must be claimed no later than Wednesday April 2007 by 5.00 pm Eastern Standard Time.

Your name is attached to claim number XXXXX-#####-###XX. We ask that you keep your claim number confidentially secured until your claim is processed and funds remitted as this is part of our security protocol.

Please remember to quote your claim number in all correspondence with us in order to avoid unnecessary delays. On behalf of our staff and sponsors, I wish you the best of luck. We look forward to hearing from you before Wednesday April 25th 2007. Once again, Congratulations!

Yours Sincerely,

Sam Silver
Director

Sean
Cottleville, Missouri
U.S.A.