Christina
Grove City,#2Consumer Comment
Sat, October 02, 2010
My mother received two similar letters with checks; one from P & S Services and another from Apex Financial Services. We were suspicious, since she didn't enter a lottery. We found that all the companies and banks on the checks and letters are legitimate companies but the payors on the checks were a compressor manufacturer and a laminate flooring manufacturer. I was thinking why would either of these types of companies have anything to do with a payout of a lottery? Then we looked on USA Mega's website, since that is one of the lotteries she supposedly won. Their site is pretty informative on these scam letters. Here's the link: (((Redacted))) They also have some images of examples of the checks and letters. The checks she received were for $3698 and $4000 and looked very authentic. But it appears to me as if the scammer is just taking random real company names and bank names and printing on the bogus checks and letters. The letters themselves contain numerous gramatical errors and odd phrasing, which may indicate English as a second language. Other red flags on both envelopes were the absence of a return address, the same brand of envelope and the same type of stamp supposedly coming from different businesses in the United States, but mailed from Canada.
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Jim
Millbrook,#3General Comment
Thu, September 30, 2010
The real Publisher's Clearing House does NOT send Checks, they show up at your door with a Camera Crew.