Euromillones Award Presentation For North American Sweepstakes Program
, Final Notice of Winning for Ticket Drawing on 3/14/08

Received letter posted from Canada on June 29th. Name and address for receiver was on the front of envelope printed using printer. There was no return address.

Inside envelope was a letter addressed to me indiciation that I had won a a drawing. Following is the letter as I received:

Top of letter: Euromillones Award Presentation, International Claims unit, 185 Shaw Street, Niagra Fall M7G-2T9
Claim # BH 7202 - 5834 SP
Batch # YTS/788/01/FX Dated May 23, 2008

Attention: My First Name and Last Name
Final Notice of Winning

This is to remind you once again that you are one of the second category winners of the North American Sweepstakes Program held on March 14, 2008. We have made several unsuccessful attempts to contact you in order to process your winning.

A ticket with serial No. 674009, randomly posted on your name drew the lucky winning numbers. This entitles you to the sum of $250, 000 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousan Dollars). Enclosed here is a check for 8, 900.00 (US Dollars) which was deducted from your winnings. You are required to use some money from this check to pay government tax, and insurance through Money gram or Western union. You will receive the tax /insurance information from your claims agent - Name of Agent. The balance of your money will be delivered to you by FedEx.

All winnnings must be claimed on or before June 11th, 2008 after this date, all unclaimed fund will be returned to Euro Sweepstakes account. Be sure to mention you Claim # above in all correspondence. And for Security reasons, do not disclose your Claim Number to the public, to avoid any fraudulent practice.

The above letter is word for word including all typos. The letter itself is very poorly written with inconsistencies in grammer and punctuation. There was a check enclosed, drawn on SunTrust Bank and signed in ink. The routing number is valid however we did not check the account number.

One of the most disturbing things about the letter is in the very last paragraph where they ask you to call Name of Agent to "activate the check."

Company: Euromillones Award Presentation For North American Sweepstakes Program
Country: Canada
City: Niagra Falls
Address: 185 Shaw Street
Phone: 6478895077

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