Received in the mail from IRC/Imperial Reporting Center a envelope containing: 1) "Locate to Deliver Notice, " 2) "Prize Data Document Report, " and 3) self-addressed envelope.
This paperwork indicated that I "will receive direct access to the Sweepstakes & Contest Money and Prizes of $1,250, 000.00."
All I have to do is receive this money, etc is to send IRC a check for $19.99, supposedly a "reporting fee."
I could retype the entire content of the papers here, but I have seen other complaints contalining same and don't think there is a need to repeat. I have receiveed the identical paperwork as these others reporters.
The paperwork states that "is a Real and Actual Matter." Also, I am to complete and return the required paperwork within 12 days of receipt.
This is a ripoff like so many before it. A legitimate sweepstakes or contest does NOT require the winner to send them money FOR ANY REASON before the winner can receive the prize.
Also, though this ripoff appears to have a post office box in 2 different towns in New York State, I think it is quite obvious from the grammar, wording, etc in the paperwork that this is not from a natural-born American. It is too stilted and uses phrasing that simply isn't not used in American English.
Somebody find these thieves and shoot them or at least jail them!
Personally I am smart enough to know that this is an out and out ripoff, BUT there are a lot of people out there, particularly the elderly or non-native Americans, who are simply not knowlegeable or sophisticated enough to recognize this. And those are the people that this type of ripoff counts on — the people who can least afford to caught up in this thing.
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