- Report: #217638
Complaint Review: Royal British Lotto - British Colombia Canada
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Royal British Lotto
4520 Burnaby Rd, British Colombia, P6H2H7 Canada, Canada
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306-351-0697
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Royal British Lotto Ripoff SENT LETTER AND CHECK FOR 2995.60 WRITTEN ON STANDARD FEDERAL BANK IN PLYMOUTH MI SAID I HAD WON LOTTO British Colombia Canada
Received a letter and check in mail from Royal British lotto stating that i had won $115,000.00. A check fo 2995.60 was inclosed and it is to pay the taxes of $2844.50. I called and the woman said to deposit their check, wait 3 days till it clears and then send a check for the taxes to :Keyisha Yearwood, 4520 Burnaby Rd., British Colombia, CA P6H2H7. The name as my "northamerican" contact is on the letter is Angela Jones of Zenith FInancial Mgmt. @ 310 Circle Dr., W SAskatoon, SK. THe letter and the lady who answered the phone said not to mention to anyone that I had won a lotto. The company on the check is Whiteline Express, LTD. I called the Standard Federal bank in Plymouth MI and gave her the routing and acct number...she verified that there were no funds in that account. She asked me to fax her the check and letter so that they could close this account.
Susan
Gold Canyon, Arizona
U.S.A.
Susan
Gold Canyon, Arizona
U.S.A.
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Dave
New Westminster,British Columbia,
Canada
Various Tip-offs
#2Consumer Suggestion
Thu, October 26, 2006
It's good that you investigated a little before falling any further into this scam. There's a lot wrong with the scam that should alert people that there isn't a pot of gold coming their way. - address incorrect. The postal code does not belong to British Columbia. - phone number area code does happen to match the address in SK. So they did one thing right. - company name on check different than name of Lottery. - company name on check different than name of supposed company in charge of distributing funds. - secrecy. Lotteries want publicity from the winners. Advertising. - taxes to be paid to an individual. Taxes are collected by Governments. - Western Union. ANY company who asks for money to be sent to them via Western Union is running a scam of some sort or another. - check delivered in regular mail. It's possible that a lottery might distribute winnings this way, but not when you consider that they'd want pictures of the winners for their Winner's Gallery advertising. - taxes on Lottery winnings. Not in Canada. And where taxes apply, they would be withheld from the winnings, not prepaid before disbursing the prize. (For winning something like a car, it might be likely that the taxes would have to be prepaid. But in that case you'd write a check while sitting in the car.) - foreign lottery winnings. Check the laws where you live. In most cases, it is either illegal to play a foreign lottery, or to win a lottery when you aren't a resident of the same country as the lottery, or both.
