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Recieved an offical letter on 12/14/08
With excitement from my wife and I we decided to open the letter.
Up in the left corner is P.O. Box 9035, Jericho, NY 11753 Award payments Documents and Reports Prize Data Release Notification Office Files and Records Floor.
In the the center of envelope in bold black letters is RECORDS CARRIER; below to the right is, NO: & numbers and below that is, Delivery of typed- documents sent for private delivery and under this is, Delivery Track Code: and #'s stamped in red.
Inside this envelpe is two documents and return envelope. Know this that as my wife and i read the first document which has in the top center blue words stating AWARD PAYMENT DATA RELEASE DIVISION, my wife and I just knew that this was not real. In this letter words are missed spelled and commas are put in the wrong way, capitalization is in the wrong places as well. Why do you have to pay $19.99 as a release fee i mean if i won than wouldn't they take it out of my check. If i won wouldn't i get a call from some one on behave of this letter. In this letter in the seventh paragraph last sentence it states: " As a private reporting company all accuracy measures are maintained and we are not a government agency. All data is reported and announced ". If that is so well this sure was not announced what a waste of people time making them believe that they won. Robert Richards should be found and sued. In my closing I just would like to thank the people who post their complaints here and in Google because if these comments were not posted, then I would have been another victim to this scam. Thank you and I wish the best for you in the days to come and if any one will be trying to sue this guy count me in because if I could not get any money out of this letter well you bet I will be all in to get the money from him.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
I recieved a letter from this company stating I had won 1, 400, 000.. At first I was really excited about it, but the more I thought about it the more madder I got.. It had said to send in 19.99, so I did.. Bou was that stupid on my part.. It is also strange how there is no address or phone number on this letter. If I actually won, take it out of the million.
Alecia (Oklahoma)
I got one, mailing it back in, without any money, but with a letter, telling them I know it is a fraud and if I get anymore from them it will find out who they are they will get caught, if I won that much, take the 20.00 out of the 1.4 million.
I also recieved a letter today 5/17/09. It also is from Robert Richards /Prize Announcer.This is a horrible scam.I also new right away when it asked me to send $19.99 a data release fee, the only one time fee.According to my letter I also won $1, 400, 000.00.Not everyone knows not to send money.There are people out there that are in the position that myself and my husband are in.My husband recently got very sick and had to have a liver transplant, unfortunatly that means someone has to be with him for months after.Recovery time is long.There for you get behind on your morgage and other bills, some people may believe these people and send there last $20.00 thinking all there problems are solved.You are right these people should be punnished for what they do to people.
Lynn (Arizona)
05/09/09
I too received a letter from Robert Richards on 4/16/09 - I had won $1, 4000, 000.00 and I was to send $19.99 - I just sent back the "Pending Money Transfer Form" (why should I have to pay for something I'd already won?). But that's not the end of the story. Today I received a letter from Director Jason Roberts from "The Reporting Center" - I had won $852, 000.00, but there had been a serious mistake made (on my part). They received my Order of Authorization for the delivery of the cash award (CONFIRMED) - I just hadn't sent the requested $19.99 fee along with the Order of Authorization, so, to quote them, "However, because we did not receive the required $19.99 Report fee along with the Authorization, your opportunity to receive the available Prize Payments has been temporarily placed On Hold." It gets better. I checked both letters and guess what? - both letters are from the same P.O. box number 9035, Jericho, NY 11735 - how ironic! Coincidence - I think not. These scammers should be put in front of a firing squad and shot.
Naoma (Philadelphia)
He is still sending these very official looking scams out only instead of Jericho NY he is now using an East Meadow NY PO box. The first clue to this being a scam is it does not list who the sweepstakes / contest is from. The second clue is he is asking for a payment. Do not be fooled by this type of scam. I fell for it in the past and have learned that all they do is take your money and run.
I just got a letter from this company today in the mail. I opened it and read it very carefully, and as soon as I saw the $19.99 "fee" I knew then and there it is a scam and didn't need to read the rest of the letter.
I read online somewhere a few years ago that one of the red flags of a sweepstakes scam such as this is when they ask for money or "processesing fees".
I went online and sure enough there are complaints about them. My advice to others that if it's too good to be true, then it probably is. Read everything carefully, double-check the company with BBB, FTC, complaintsboard.com, etc.
I have found out that I have a terminal cancer that has no known cure. I have two young children and a loving husband, this letter sounded great, I would be able to do so much with my family. I can't beleive people pray on innocent victims like that. We have enough things going on in our lives to get our hopes up for these unsightly men and women that can harm people like this. I'm glad that there are still honest people in this world that post about scams, this way we can besure before we become another victim. I especialy cannot afford to be taken by scams, my financial sittuation is enough turmoil due to my medical expenses. Thank you once again for posting about this scam, and having these websites to go on to find out what is true and not.
I get these all the time. When I first started getting them I was really excited and I can't tell you how many times I have sent $9.95 and $19.99 and only received a Sweepstakes Report. This report is in booklet form and it has a listing of different Sweepstakes. Don't know if they were real or not; I only know that I have yet to win anything.
I stopped sending money over 3 years ago, but they still send me these "Document of Award Payment Data Release Division" notices.
There are so many Scams going on. I get phones calls all the time telling me I've won Millions of dollars, all I have to do is pay the Shipping and Handling or the Insurance Fee.
I DO NOT FALL FOR THE SCAMS ANY MORE!
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