My husband recieved a check in the mail along with a letter stating that he had won a lottery of $250, 000.00. The check for $3800 look real and so did the letter. The letter stated that we would have to Westren Union the money after depositing it into our account because that was the amount of the tax with held from the total "winning" amount. We decided to look on the internet to find out more about the company Union Trust Financial, to see if it really existed. We found the company but none of the addresses matched the ones on the letter. We also read several scam reports about this company.
My husband called the number 1-778-862-8558 and spoke to a man Geroge Lewis to confirm claim number AR-038-4244 and the serial number 387-45014AL. My husband's "lucky" numbers were 22-87-76-44-24. The man told my husband to deposit the check and then call him back for the address to send the money to. Instead my husband's curosity took hold, so he took the check to Chase, where they told him the check was fake. My husband, not surprised decided to call the man back and lie to him, telling him that we had cash the check and we wanted to send that money to him so that we could get the rest of the $250, 000.00. The man didn't know the address to send it to and said the address was on the letter 605-4236 Main Street Mission, BC Canada in care of William Yates. "Mr. Lewis" got fustrated when my husband began to ask question after question about the money. The man wouldn't answer any questions and just wanted my husband to send the money. Luckily we read the scam report first, and figured it was a big scam. We let the bank have a copy of both the letter and the check. It is too bad that people have so much time on their hands to think up how to rob people of money that isn't theirs.
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