On November 14 I received in the mail a notification about winning a Reader's Digest Sweepstakes. I was told that I was the 3rd Grand Prize winner with $100,000 in winnings. Accompanying the letter was a real-looking check for taxes that I was to cash and return to an unspecified address in CANADA. They included a reference number and a deadline. It made it seem so real.
Writing this all out makes it seem so stupid. I was and still am desperate. I am unemployed (looking), a single mother, essentially homeless and trying to go to school so I can better my and my daughter's life. To have something like this come in the mail is a heart stopping moment. I didn't stop to question it—I did what the gentleman (Jonathan Morgan) said. I cashed the check and sent the money. A few days later I was checking my bank account to make sure I had enough money for gas and not only had they taken back their check but I was out the other money as well (approx. $3000.00). That may not seem like a big amount to a lot of people, but for me it was the only money I had left.
If anyone else out there gets a letter in the mail from FINANCIAL CLAIM SERVICES based in Tulsa, OK telling them that they won money in a Reader's Digest sweepstakes... DON"T do what they ask. Throw it away! It is a horrible, horrible thing for them to do to people.
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