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TD Financial Complaints - lottery scam

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TD Financial

Posted: 2008-09-16 by David [send email]
lottery scam
Complaint Rating:  100 % with 19 votes
Company information:
Bedford, Nova Scotia
Canada
Phone: 1550 bedford highway

scam checks. telling us we won a special lotto.Lucky 649 contest wth serial number 217788954. contest held onjune 27, 2008.The tax amount is $3, 980 US to be paid thru MONEY GRAM located at any Walmart stores(Wallmart spelled wrong) around you. You can call Ron Clark (on) 1 647 830 9098. claim #PS 723-559 SU. From the office of Venessa Robert (vice president finance) TD financial.
address they gave is TD financial Sun Tower, 1550Bedford Highway, Suite 410, Nova Scotia, B4A 1E6. Letter dated 28th August, 2008. Received letter on 15th September, 2008. Grammatical errors by the Author of the scam letter.
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75 days ago by Me [send email]
I go the same letter, different amounts, but same in content with check enclosed. First of all, since when does lotto get your name when you play, second, since when do you have to pay taxes through money gram, third, why would they send you a check to help pay those taxes. Many other red flags - BE CAREFUL!!!
65 days ago by April [send email]
My dad just got the letter the other day. It was the same letter but didn't have the same amount. If you notice. The sig doesn't say "Vanessa Robert" ours look like it says "tammy rump"
57 days ago by Pam [send email]
My Dad fell for one of these in June. Since then, I have taken over his finances and he has me go through his mail. He got two of these "checks" today, TD Financial Ltd., for $3, 985 and Standard Trust Inc. for $4, 900. The checks are fakes, of course, but without my reading glasses I would have assumed they were real.

I like the part about calling a phone number before cashing the check. Other than "winning" a lottery never entered, the red flag is that you need to call a Toronto phone number first.

TD Financial Ltd letter: Check "written" on an account at First State Bank of Houston Texas -- note that First State Bank is not located in Houston -- and is signed by Dianne Byers, Award Administrator. All you have to do is call Jill Avery at 647-835-1605. That's a Toronto phone number (likely a disposable cell phone).

Standard Trust Inc. Finance: Check "written" on an account at PaineWebber in Columbus Ohio by Sunmark Capital Corporation. Someone has a sense of humor because Paine Webber was acquired back in 2000 and Sunmark Capital Corp is a smal lbrokerage in Missouri. The letter is signe by Harold ford (yes, he does not use an upper case for his last name), and all you have to do is call Mandy Hill at 647-219-4267.

Doesn't it sound great to just pick up the phone and call Jill or Mandy for instructions?

These cons need to spruce up their information -- the checks have obvious markers for fraud. And paying by Money Gram? Of course. This is one of our Homeland Security lapses because large amounts of money can be sent untraceable across borders.
47 days ago by Angie [send email]
I got the same check the other day, and at a time when we needed money the most, like idiots, we took it to our financial institution 6 days ago, they held it for 5 days and then it showed that we had an available balance for that amount, we could only take out 1500.00 at a time, thankfully, but now, my husbands next paycheck will be held, so we are really screwed, more so than before that check got to our mailbox... Is there anyone or anything that we can do to these people so they cant hurt anyone else????

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