I received a letter in the mail at my work address where I never receive personal mail. The letter said I had won the 2007 online sweepstakes in the amount of $68, 000. Also enclosed was a check in the amount of $3, 175 for administrative and processing fees.
The first thing I did was looked online to see if the addresses and names had any relation to scams that were in process and at this time I couldn't find any, but it still seemed a little odd that someone would send me money in order to pay for more money.
I called the phone number and the lady told me congradulations and that I should deposit the check and when it clears to call them back for further instructions. The next day I took the check to my bank to have them look at it and see whether it was fraudulent. They told me it seemed like a scam. Later I called hsbc bank and they informed me that the check was real, but it was from a stolen account that was being looked into. They asked to mail the info back to them.
I decided that since I was inconvenienced by this whole ordeal that I would inconvenience the scammers. I called the number and told them that I had deposited the check, eventhough I hadn't, and that I needed the address of where to take the processing fee. The same lady on the phone told me she had a contact at the Clearance Agency named Roger Lewis and that I needed to send a money gram attention to him to the following address:
839 Broad St. Newark, NJ 07102 before 6:00pm. Then call her with the reference # and receipt # and talk with Roger Lewis on a conference call to become aware of how the money would be transferred to me.
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