My grandmother got this scam in the mail. They claim you are the 2nd prize winner in some international lottery. The catch is you have to contact their "agent" (who by the way has an obviously foreign phone number despite their office being supposedly located in LA) and pay a "processing fee" in order to get your $250000 winnings. But they "generously" include a check to cover the fee plus some. The computer-printed check appears genuine at first glance but a closer look at it and you start getting suspicious real fast (as if there wasn't enough to make you suspicious already).in her case, the check is issued from some MN construction company from some bank in MT. WTF? What would a freakin' construction company have to do with international lottery winnings? The check is a fraud, probably printed with stolen account information on some account that was closed down long ago because... Well, because it's account info was stolen lol. I bet if you call the "agent" he would ask you to wire him the "processing fee", hoping you would be naive enough to think you could actually cash that check and cover your money. Don't fall for this!
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