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Complaint Review: North-American Sweepstakes Lottery / Altwater Financial Group Inc - Toronto Ontario
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North-American Sweepstakes Lottery / Altwater Financial Group Inc
107 Bay Street Toronto, M6H 2C5 Ontario, Canada
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North-American Sweepstakes Lottery / Altwater Financial Group, Inc Sent fraudulent check Toronto Ontario canada
I received a letter in the mail today from Altwater Financial Group, Inc. in Ontario Canada. The letter was dated March 3, 2009 and had a claim # written on it to my attention stating it was a Final Claim Notification. It says it was to inform me of the results of the 2008 North-American Sweepstakes Lottery held in Vancouver, British Columbia on September 26, 2008. It gave a ticket number saying my name was on it along with the winning numbers for the second drawing category.
The letter states that they had previously tried to contact me in December 2008 without success. The letter states I won $250,000.00 in US dollars from a total cash prize of $1.5 million US dollars shared and distributed among 6 declared winners.
The letter proceeds to tell me that my prize winning has been forwarded to their payment office, with instructions to release my funds to me either by certified check or by wire transfer to my designated bank account.
In addition, there was an enclosed check from a company CHEMCRAFT INTERNATIONAL in Birmingham, Alabama in the amount of $4,825.72. The remainder of the letter states the following:
To expedite the processing of your payment, please find enclosed a check in the amount of $4,825.72US dollars, issued to you as partial payment by one of our sponsors, to assist you with the needed funds to pay the Value Added Tax assessed on you $250,000.00 US dollars prize winning. Please not that the amount of $2,975.00 US dollars has been assessed as the Value Added Tax for your prize winning. This amount must be paid by you, as well as all other winners, prior to release of your winning by our payment office.
Please do not cash or deposit this check at your bank, until you have contacted your assigned claim officer MR TERRY HANSON at (647) 868-0185 for further clarification and instructions on claiming your winning. Mr. Terry Hanson can be reached between 11:00AM - 5:00PM, Monday through Friday Eastern Time.
Note: If we do not hear from you within 10 business days from the date of this letter, we shall declare the enclosed check as lost, and therefore null and void. Consequently, your winning will be nullified and re-entered in the next North-American Sweepstakes Lottery coming up in September 2009. Truly yours, Michael Anderson (Promotions Manager)
The check looks real enough, has water mark, says VOID on the scanned copy, is actually signed in ink. I ran the routing number and it does not match any bank. According to the check, it is drawn off of Compass Bank in Birmingham, AL. 2 other things also caught my attention: 1 that the taxes are only $2975.00 and 2 that the times to contact this guy are from 11am to 5pm? Come on!
After searching the web, I find this is a big scan that has been going on for years now with these guys! Only difference is that they change the names and amounts. I can't believe they haven't been caught yet! People get suckered in and calls these guys, Western Union them the tax money and WHAM, the check comes back to their bank as a fraudulent check.
This is too bad! I'm layed off from work and about to lose my house. This would have been a god send if it were really legit!
Skendall
Olathe, Kansas
U.S.A.
The letter states that they had previously tried to contact me in December 2008 without success. The letter states I won $250,000.00 in US dollars from a total cash prize of $1.5 million US dollars shared and distributed among 6 declared winners.
The letter proceeds to tell me that my prize winning has been forwarded to their payment office, with instructions to release my funds to me either by certified check or by wire transfer to my designated bank account.
In addition, there was an enclosed check from a company CHEMCRAFT INTERNATIONAL in Birmingham, Alabama in the amount of $4,825.72. The remainder of the letter states the following:
To expedite the processing of your payment, please find enclosed a check in the amount of $4,825.72US dollars, issued to you as partial payment by one of our sponsors, to assist you with the needed funds to pay the Value Added Tax assessed on you $250,000.00 US dollars prize winning. Please not that the amount of $2,975.00 US dollars has been assessed as the Value Added Tax for your prize winning. This amount must be paid by you, as well as all other winners, prior to release of your winning by our payment office.
Please do not cash or deposit this check at your bank, until you have contacted your assigned claim officer MR TERRY HANSON at (647) 868-0185 for further clarification and instructions on claiming your winning. Mr. Terry Hanson can be reached between 11:00AM - 5:00PM, Monday through Friday Eastern Time.
Note: If we do not hear from you within 10 business days from the date of this letter, we shall declare the enclosed check as lost, and therefore null and void. Consequently, your winning will be nullified and re-entered in the next North-American Sweepstakes Lottery coming up in September 2009. Truly yours, Michael Anderson (Promotions Manager)
The check looks real enough, has water mark, says VOID on the scanned copy, is actually signed in ink. I ran the routing number and it does not match any bank. According to the check, it is drawn off of Compass Bank in Birmingham, AL. 2 other things also caught my attention: 1 that the taxes are only $2975.00 and 2 that the times to contact this guy are from 11am to 5pm? Come on!
After searching the web, I find this is a big scan that has been going on for years now with these guys! Only difference is that they change the names and amounts. I can't believe they haven't been caught yet! People get suckered in and calls these guys, Western Union them the tax money and WHAM, the check comes back to their bank as a fraudulent check.
This is too bad! I'm layed off from work and about to lose my house. This would have been a god send if it were really legit!
Skendall
Olathe, Kansas
U.S.A.
