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Received a letter from Pepsi Co., co sponsorship with Readers Digest located in Plano Texas stating my wife has won the grand prize of one million dollars. Inside is a check for $5400.00 to cover any outstanding fees that have not been paid by Pepsi Co. directly. Before she is to cash this check, she is supposed to contact a Mr. Ron Pittsfield, a representative, phone No. [protected] ext. #1. with the prize claim #. This check is a citibank check, drawn from Strategic Focus Cities in New York city, New York. This enveloped my wife received appears to have come from Canada. I thought I should pass this on and make your Company aware!
Sincerely Armando Romo
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
This is too much. I am so glad that i found this site because i too was supposed to call Olivia Bradshaw, I recieved the same check for 5, 800 only my check is from a bank in Tennessee. It's always a different bank, WTF! I get stacks and stacks of fake swepestakes. It messed with my head dor a while, and though I know those are scams this one really does look legit, to a degree. I called the number for like a week. We could all use this money seems like they target monetarily less fortunate women. It's just not right. What can the local police really do? if anyone knows please post a responce.
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I take care of an elderly lady here in California who also recieved a check along with the same letter. It sucks that it's a scam she could of used the money. The person should find something better to do then scam the elderly.
I got the same letter on 6-8-2009 saying that I won One million dollar Giveaway and plus got check 5850.00 never cash it . I should contact Mr.Andy Pearlman at [protected] Ext #1 and A claim number too. The nerve of these people rip off other people who work hard for there money and turn around scamming them. Someone need to put a stop to this.
Plus I thought I was bless for the money and I really really need that money.
Crying
I'm tired of searching the web for non-exsistant contests from Readers Digest and their affiliates. I'm so disappointed in them and will be leaving a relationship of over 20 years behind, that's how long I have been subscribing to RD.
My Neighbor's Mom also an older single woman received the same Reader's Digest/Pepsi with enclosed $5, 850.00 for covering "fees" and told she also won
a MILLION dollars : ) :0
so I work at the post office and she came to me. then we found this site...
THANK YOU so MUCH for all your information.. we appreciate it. It's trash for sure.
http://cr.pepsi.com/usen/pepsiusen.cfm?date=20090608
Got one for my mom, $5850 and contact Mrs. Olivia Bradshaw at [protected] ext 1. I call it and an answering macnine seems to pick up but then hangs up. I checked the routing number and it is real but the company name is Brazilgranite out of north hollywood with a check from indiana and a cancelled stamp from Canada; Return address of Pepsi in ChicagoAlso the Check appears to be canadian as the back warnings are all in French. This seems to be fraufulant but dam it is a good looking one!
Seems like this scam is only targeting women...
I got a letter in the mail with a check for 5800 and when I took it to the bank to have it checked they said it was from a company that is using fleet bank which is a part of bank of america. my bank said the check was no good
Another one received - Santa Cruz, California - to my mother-in-law. The enclosed check is from "Headspin Technologies" through Rural American Bank-Braham; no routing #, $5, 850. Call David Bennett at [protected]. I'm just gonna turn it over to our DA's consumer affairs office.
Mother just got one today 6-1-09 and the check was in the amount of $5850.00. Tells us to contact a Mr. Phil Rizutto at [protected] Ext#1. Put it this way, i've never entered my mother and she's never entered for anything of the sort. So I believe that this is a scam. I advise people not to cash it, deposit it, or call the number and give any information out about yourselves. I just want to know, how they got my mothers name and why her? Did all these people who got letters have something in common?
My Mother in law recieved the same thing.. with different names and numbers but same ext# as most of you; ext# 1 This is obviously a total scam and there's really no purpose to it as well. We have called the number but there's no answer just an answering machine. My sister in law also called the company that supposedly issued the check and they informed her that a few people had called them as well with the same issue. They told her that they already had made a police report and that they had nothing to do with such check/sweepstakes. There is also no ABA number anywhere on the check. Which is very awkward and the endorsment/signature box in the back is right in the middle of the check horizontally... normally it's on the right or left side vertically... and it's in french (endossement - ou estampille) Be careful.. I would advise you take all documents/check to the police right away so that they may take appropriate measures and catch whomever is doing this. Seems kinda creepy to me and we all need to be very careful...
San Bernardin, CA
Friday 29 May 2009 - I received one of these "You have won $1M letters with a canadian .98 stamp and a "from anywhere to anyone" cancelation stamp. The return address reads "Pepsi ... Chicago IL". My check was for $4980 - very impressive with a gold square chip embedded in the check.
I never entered a Pepsi contest and the Reader's Digest/Pepsi seemed like an unlikely partnership.
If the previous Posters have been unable to reach the guy you're supposed to contact before cashing the check WHAT EXACTLY IS TRANSPIRING? IS this a terrorist attack? Is the Gold square in the check some kind of GPS locator? Does the letter contain a Plague virus?
This is SCARY! Please advise. My husband says to take it to the CSI!
Santa Barbara CA
I just received the same letter with a check also for the amount of $5400.00. I have been trying to figure out what it is and for what but have no such luck. If anyone finds out any information of this please let us all know. Cause if it was real I would be so happy but something is just not right. Thanks
My mom, also received one of these letter and we have tried to call the number and the gentleman is always from his desk. We called readers digest and they said they have no such promotion. Mom could use the money but I am afraid this is a scam. Has anyone tried to cash the check? Or gotten in touch with the guy on the front to call?
absolutely yes . what a poor administration. i have returned the books spending the courier charges from my pocket which was sent withour my acceptance and now they say after 6 months that they have not received the payments nor the books sent back by me. i think all their subscribers are new entrants who will never renew after the first . i am also not renwing the subs. for thenext year.
I got one to and i'm also in California. Has anyone tried calling the number to see what happens or what they say about it. I wonder what would happen if someone cashed the check?
My wife received on today 5/20/09 with everything the same. We live in California as wellThat's why I was checking to see if it was for real. I new nothing come along like that for no reason. It seems when times are bad the scammer work harder to cheat out of the money you don't have now. Same on the people who don't check out these scams before they invest their hard earn money.
I am a police officer in california and an elderly woman brought in the same letter and check for $5400.00 to the police department today 05-20-09. The envelope stamp was from canada. Seems like a scam...
No such website or contest exists
It's pretty incredible that people are still too stupid to avoid magazine subscription services.
Unfortunately, your daughter was raised by an idiot, and likely will be on the pole soon.
I agree totally, My wife asked me to enter her in the contest for the GPS's as well. I was unable to find it anywhere. Her and her Mother have subscribed to Readers Digest for at least 25 years. The contest is a fraud and Readers Digest should award anyone with a winning code a GPS system as far as I am concerned.
Jack for Enid and Ina
i was scammed in the year of november of 2006 i received a check in the mail told me to despoit in the bank then the next day take it out and send it western union to some town in texas and i would recieve over 75ooo dollars so i cashed it at bank of america and they told me it was good i had the bank to really check it out and the bank still said it was good until a week passed and that when BOA told it wasnt good and wanted me to give all of my ssi check to them for 4 months i couldnt do it so they send my name to all banks not to let me have any saving or checking accounts for 5 years i dont trust no more banks either my SSI check come on a card from direct express which who ever gets ssi check out there call soical security office and ask them for the phone number to get it i dont have to worry about no banks it come on the card every month mary from california.
its 5 years back i throw all my receipt, i dont know
how i will claim it then coz im too much upset i did it.
thanks
Not able to get gift-----SURPRISE-----
I have tried several times to get to www.rd.ca/ssvault but there is no such a sight and if there is where is it?
Also how do I open it or is it a scam.
Awaiting your prompt reply,
kind regards,
Lisa Lewin
Worst customer service, i hv ever seen. No one is picking up the call, tried thousand times on diff. numbers provided on RD website, even the no. given for Erick D'Souza (Nation head), no one is responding. E-mailed more than a dozen times on all the Id's available on the website with the same result, no response... Rcvd the 2008 dairy, but no rcvd a single copy of RD yet.
This is the worst customer service...
plz let me know a single way to contact the ### RD customer service.
It's funny that the comments are all the same and this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened to me. Hey Carol Brennen---my winning number 65976 the same as yours! If we win do you want odd or even days when we have to share...The way this "Contest" is run is totally unacceptable in my opinion. A scam it may be...