Received a letter dated January 27, 2007, signed by Sharon Dilbey Director of Promotions. I won $68, 0000 and the cashier's check enclosed is for $4, 600 to pay accounting, tax processing and clearance fees regarding my prize. Letter says to deposit check and allow 24 to 48 hours for check to clear, then contact your claim agent William Brent. Letter says "we advise that you keep your award from public notice until your claim has been processed and winnings are remitted to you to avoid double claiming or unwarranted abuse of this promotion".
Check looks authentic, drawn on the Bank of New York, except, there is no name, address, etc of the account holder and the routing transit number is only six numbers long, most routing transit numbers are nine.
I did a reverse lookup on the phone number, and it's a land line in Brampton, Ontario. But couldn't match it to the address on the envelope.
The big clue I had that this was a scam was the "misspellings", North America Shopppers Gaming" is company name on the letter head (yes, 3 "p"s). Underneath that heading reads "Publisher Clearing House, Readers Digest & Casino Sweepstake Promotions"
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Be careful seems there a lot of this going on, just different variations of the scam.
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