This Morning I recieved a letter telling me that I had won a prize in El-Gordo de la Primitiva Lottery in the 3rd catagory.
The amount stated 415.810.00 euros. Usually I throw these types of letters in the bin, but this one stumped me as it had a spainish stamp on it and I decided to read on.
The letter stated that a computer ballot system had selected my name from 25,000 names around the world (lucky me) as a winner. It said my money had been deposited with a security/clearing company (Universal Clearing House S. A) and that it had already been insured in my name.
It read on to say that I should contact my claims agent MR FRANCISCO PEDRO foreign operations manager on 34 6 900 60609 to process my money and to send it on to the destination of my choice.
In this letter was told to fill out the attached form send it back to him.
The form asked for my address details, next of kin, banking details and a photocopy of a personal identity for verificatiion. This made me realise what a humungous scam this was. There was absolutely no chance of me sending a copy of my passport or national identity card to a total stranger.
I decided to check this people out on the internet and the first website I came to was rip off report. Which had numerous reports of people recieving letters almost identical to mine.
These scamming people obviously do this kinds of things on a grand scale and when things get a bit hot either change their company name or move premises. Then I can see the same name and address of this company in this site to report Jan Kent, UK, just change their company name "Sweepstake"
Is there anything we can do to stop them?
Mostafa
Dhaka
Bangladesh
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