Intercredit Financial Trust
Sponsors - Digest Publisher's Clearing House, Sweepstakes scam! Ripoff

My 19 year old daughter received a letter and a cashier's check from Intercredit Financial Trust Inc. Dated Jan. 25.

Subject: Award Claim Final Notification

After numerous attempts to reach you have failed, we are pleased to inform you through this letter that our network system shows you as the lucky winner of unclaimed prize money in the amount of $45,000 USD. The system indicates that you won the Award on Jan. 15th sweepstakes draws.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Reader's Digest, Publisher's Clearing House, Computer Games, Sweepstakes data base, are from Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North and South America, South Africa and Asia, as this is our International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually. CONGRATULATIONS! It is important to remind you of the Federal and International laws guiding the fairness in personal collection of cash prizes. The Laws requires a winner to pay applicable Taxes and processing fees before all the funds are released. The same laws also prevents you from paying with your personal money but from your winning money.

Your funds are now deposited with us and insured in your name. Please find enclosed check of $1,950.00 USD, payable to you and must be deposited only to the payees account cashed and part send to the processing and payin g office to finalize your claims. This amount is an advance for processing and taxes payment which will be deducted from total winning with the balance paid out to you upon receipt of your confirmation. We ask that you keep your Lot and Claim numbers confidential until your claim has been properly processed and funds remitted to you as this is part of our security protocol to avoid any Double Claims.

We hope you'll give urgent attention to this mail by contacting your claims agent Mariah Jones or Jim Parker at 1-902-412-0382 Mon-Fri, 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-1pm ET. Note that all prize money must be claimed not later than Feb. 12th at which any unclaimed funds shall be forfeited. Once again, Congratulations from all our staff and thank you for your trust in our services.
Sincerely,
Shantel McDavis
Regional Co-Operate Director.

I found the consumer complaints site and found other similar letters sent to people stating it was a lottery and different names.
The content is pretty much the same.
A check from HFS Federal Credit Union from Hilo, Hawaii was included for $1,950.00. This is a Cashier's check with the water marks and the remitter is the same Shantel McDavis.
Authorized signature is illegible.

Needless to say, my 19 year old daughter was already buying a new car, wardrobe and everything else in the world she can't afford. I really think she hates me right now for making her dream blow up in her face. I wonder how many other young people have received the same bogus letter.

We are taking the letter and check to the police station tomorrow and making a formal report. We will not cash this check. I did call the number (Nova Scotia in Canada) and wasn't very pleasant. Surprisingly, nobody could give me information because the system was down.
The envelope had no return address and had a Canadian stamp.
No other identification.

I primarily want to warn anybody else out there that if you get such a letter, please don't cash it and take it to the authorities instead. Let's get these maggots!

Company: Intercredit Financial Trust
Country: Bahamas
City: Paradise Island
Address: 1 Marine Dr. Paradise Island Branch
Phone: 9024120382

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