I received a letter addressed to me with no return address and postmarked from Canada. I opened the envelope and in it was a letter from Readers Digest and a check for $3,907.41. The check had all the markings of a real check to include the watermark on the back. The letter stated I had won$152,000.00 from readers digest lotto. The enclosed check was part of my winnings for me to pay insurance and processing charges on my winnings. This would be deducted from my winnings. I had to contact Terrance Brown at 7788586473 or 7783165530 to activate my claim before depositing the check and then call back after I deposited the check so they could release the check to me.
The check was from another company, not readers digest. I called the company to find out that they had been having problems with fraudulant checks and connected me to their check fraud dept. Though tempting as it was do not fall into these winning scams and pay close attention to the envelope, letter and check. We just had a wire transfer scam in Thomson, GA get busted.
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