Complaint Review: United Access Inc. United Access Financial Inc. Lewis McGregor Mary Williams(Promotion Manager)

Received in the mail an envelope addressed to me, opened it, it was a letter from United Access Financial Inc. with an address of International Claim Department, 200 HWY 7, Midland Ont. L4R 1Y5 and underneath address was telephone number 1-647-219-4892. And a very real looking check made out to me for $4,890.00. The lettr was dated June 14, 2008 and had a claim No. DH/SUL-0011 with the words: Winning Final Notification. It went on to say Dear Sir/Madam we are pleased to inform you that you are one of the declared winners of the Shoppers Sweepstakes held on May 5th, 2008 in the 2nd category. Ticket serial No. 387450146 drew the lucky winning No. 38-44-66-79-91. It went on to say: we have made many unsuccessful attempts to contact you regarding this winning. You are therefore entitled to the sum of $250,000.00 US DOLLARS. tHIS IS FROM TOTAL PRIZE MONEY OF $5 Million US dollars that was shared and presented among the other 20 declared winners. Please note that all the participants were selected through a random computer ballot system drawn from over 50,000 names. The next paragraph went on to give me my claim number DH/SUL-0011 and said it has been assigned to 'our North American Claims Affiliate'. It said to expedite the processing enclosed is the check of $4890.00 US dollars 'which has been deducted from your winning'. It said the sole purpose of this check is for the payment of applicable Government Taxes 'on your big winnings'. The next paragraph said: "The tax amount is $2985.00 US Dollars (Two Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty Five Dollars) to be paid by either MONEYGRAM or WESTERN UNION. The final paragraph said: "Please do not attempt to use this check until you call. You are advised to contact your claim agent immediately for further clarification as indicated below within 5 business days. Then it had the name LEWIS MCGREGOR and the phone number. Then it said Congratulations and the name Mary Williams (Promotion Manager) and supposedly her signature. I called this phone number and a man answered the phone, I asked to speak to Lewis McGregor and he asked me for my phone number. I told him I had a claim number I could give him and he insisted on my phone number. I gave him my phone number and he asked me for the claim number, I gave it to him, he then said for me to deposit the check in my bank and call him the next day and then go to Western Union and send the $2985 and the balance of the check was mine and that the next day I would be sent the $250,000.00 minus the $4890. I then searched the name and then searched the bank and the bank said it was a FRAUD! They count on people depositing the check in their bank, following their instructions to call them the next day, then following their immediate instructions to send $2985 'for taxes'. In the meantime, their fraud check has not yet gone through the banking system yet and they have your real money!

Sylvester
Stamford, Connecticut
U.S.A.