My Mom is 88yrs and gets tons of junk mail -mostly telling her she won big money BUT she has to send blah, blah... So she got this one with a genuine looking check for $2688.00 from First Niagara Bank in Rochester, NY & asks me if its true. The letter says to call accts. Manager and I do and she tells me to deposit check, call her back when it clears and then she will send a delivery person to pick up a personal check from me for FEES that are exactly the same amount ($2688.00) and he will then give me my prize check for $45,000.00. When I asked why she couldn't just let me endorse their check back to them she got angry and tried to tell me I wasn't understanding business practices & just deposit it & call her back & follow her directions. I said OK.& hung up. I then went online for Integrated Prize Logistics and this usacomplaints.com site came up-Thank God! So then I called the bank and gave them the check no. S and they have a file on them in their fraud dept. They asked for all the info from the letter which included the woman's name & phone. I offered to give them the contents of letter if needed to prosecute these creeps & the took my name & phone. If an older person had been calling instead of bi*y ME I can see where this predator could have made them feel stupid and maybe talked them into it! Please keep an eye out for a plain white envelope with a window that shows your address on what looks like a check and has a regular sticky stamp and a postal mark from Canada-no logos, company name or return address and then please call the bank and ask for their fraud dept. To report it! Maybe we can get them busted!
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