Complaint / Review
Brian Glendale / Nicole Hamilton / Loeb Shimen
Gerber & Gerber Corp. City, OK I receiveved a award claim notification letter and check for $2,420 in the mail. I was informed to pay $1800 at a Western Union and I would then receive $150,000 after paying a "tax agent". Woonsocket, Rhode Island

On August 15, I received a letter stating that I had won a sweepstakes. The letter had an address of Oklahoma City, OK, but no street address or Internet address. The letter had a Canadian stamp on the envelope.
The letter stated that I had won $150,000 and they had enclosed a check (they spelled it cheque) for $2420. The check was from a BANCFIRST in Oklahoma City, OK 73128, but again no address for the bank on the check. The supposed company's name was on the check. It was Gerber & Gerber Corp. Oklahoma City, OK (OK had a little k not a capital one and again there was no street address). The check number is 064028. There is no Gerber & Gerber Corp website, but there is a BANCFIRST website.
The letter explained that I would have to use the $2420 to pay for the taxes. Per my state regulations, a tax amount of $1800 will be required before my lump sum winning could be sent to me. The payment was to be done via any Western Union. The payment was to be made directly to my tax agent. I would have to call a Nicole Hamilton, a claim agent, to receive the tax information. The letter was signed by a Brian Glendale, CFO. The bottom of the letter had photo copied pictures of familiar companies (MoneyGram, McDonald's, Target, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, K-Mart, CVS, ShopRite, etc). The check was signed by a Loeb Shimen (sp?). It was hard to decipher the last name in the signature.