Complaint / Review
Truheat Financial Services & Consultants A Division Of Truheat LLC
Company letter of sweepstakes draw wants my winning wife to send them a check

My wife received a letter with a Canadian post stamp from Truheat Financial Services & Consultants. It has the date of Sep 10 and Ref DWR/00809S and it states:

We are pleased to inform you through this letter that out network shows you as the lucky winner of an unclaimed price money in the amount of Fiftyseven Thousand Dollars (57,000.00) in United States Funds. The system indicates that your name was randomly selected through a computerized ballot system as a winner for the SECOND Quarter of 2008 Sweepstakes draw.

Congratulations!!! All participants were selected though a computerized ballot system drawn from Readers Digest, Publishers Clearing House, Online Sweepstakes, Internet Games etc...

Enclosed, is a check for ($3,988.95) which covers both the administrative taxes and Clearance fees for your winning. For authorization and activation of this check, please contact your agent Teresa Robinson immediately at Tel: 1-514-577-1490 Your winnings must be claimed not later than September 29. Your name is attached to claim number US/CA/ZDS49-00G. We advise, you keep your claim number confidentially secured until your claim is processed and Funds remitted, as this is part of our security protocol.

Please, remember to quote your Reference Number in all correspondence with us in other to avoid unneccesary delays. Congratulations again from our staff and sponsors.

Sally Nelson, Claim Specialist

The check is issued by Irwin Union Bank & Trust Co., Kalamazoo, Michigan 71-324/749

I have called the above number (which is in Canada) and I asked for Teresa Robinson. The person who answered the call claimed to be Mark Green from the tax receiving department. I asked him what kind of joke this was and he said it is not. He instructed me to deposit the check into my bank account, then send them a check for the same amount and once that will be received they will mail the check for 57,000 dollars. He claimed to be in New York, then I asked why the phone number I was calling is located in Canada, he replied he did not know and hung up on me.