Alpha Financial Group
Distributed phony check to pay for "said" internaitonal clearance fees for lottery win

I received a letter stating I had won an international lottery from one million five hundred thousand names. A check was included for $2, 996.50 to cover the cost of clearance fees.

I called to activate the check with the phone number given in the letter and asked for Lewis Williams as instructed. He supposedly activated my check for cashing and I was to go to the bank and cash it and send $2, 840.00 to an Arlene Wheatley in Ottawa, Canada via Money Gram. Then the lottery prize check for $125, 710.00 would arrive by FedEx in a couple of days.

When the check did not arrive, I proceeded to call back and was put off with excuses why my check did not arrive. Finally, after a week, my little money in my checking account was overdrawn and left me in debt.