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Supposedly we can find the winners of the contest at www.sweepsresults.com/million . Well I haven't yet and also had to really read all fine print before I found the actual name of the company so Icould look it up on the BBB. It is not a member but has the address and phone number on it.
The winners were to be listed as of feb 2010. This is March.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Received letter today (10/01/13) informing me that I had WON 3 million bucks. Wow! Lucky me! Of course, I would have to send them the meager sum of $12.99 in order to claim my "Winnings" (Add $3 if I wanted "RUSH" Service). Hmmm... Something smells here. Read ALL of the very fine print and it was not encouraging at all. Went to computer and entered www.WONrewards.com which redirects you to a "Go Shopping" site where you are supposed to enter your user name and a card number. Needless to say, I did not investigate any further Went to the search engine and and typed WONrewards, and, here I am. This does seem to need to be looked into by the Postal Service as it is such a deliberate scam. I can imagine that this is an excellent opportunity to prey on the elderly and the uninformed. The outfit is out of Kansas and to my way of thinking should be shut down. However, I'm just as sure they will open up another store two doors down and continue on trying to bilk the public. Sigh...Three mill would have been so nice. :/
With this company I was under the assumption they were a branch of Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, but they are a scam cause I sent them exactly $12.00 for 11.89 on Dec. 12, 2013. On the the Sweepstakes Rule card they tell you to write NextGen Inc. Customer Service, PO Box 7069, Shawnee Mission. KS 66207 or call [protected]. I want to report these scammers!
Scam! I actually went as far as priority next day mailing mine back the money to be sent was 13.90 and was for a yellow pendant that was apart of the prize, either 2million over thirty years or 1.4 lump sum payment. luckily I had a bad feeling and looked them up online and saw all this info about the scam! I called the post office right away to see if I could reclaim my letter and luckily again it had not gone out yet and was able to go back and pick up my letter and check sent and got a refund for the postage... All while feeling like a complete fool. Lesson learned, if it sounds too good to be true, it is!
Received this in the mail and went to [redacted] but they weren't listed there. It is a rip off! What contest did I enter unknowingly? Something for nothing...also the word award is a clue...and they say you have to enter...
I am going to deep six it right into the garbage!
It seems these. People are at it again, just read their award letter and they want $12.99 to process your award. I am not senile yet, I keep a close eye on where my pennies are g
Got my letter today...PURE SCAM..no one has to pay to collect so called winnings...dont fall for it!...03-23-2015...Bob, Ohio.
Yes, it is a scam. No, you do not need to send $11.89. It says that in not-so-plain English, but the wording is so convoluted that most people won't see it. In a multitude of words they say the Premium Offer is optional, but if you choose it you must include the $11.89. I just said in one paragraph that should be understandable to everyone what took them two paragraphs to say in a manner that was designed to confuse everybody. If you send it back all you are doing is wasting your postage. If you include the $11.89 you are just throwing that away too. You can be sure they have lawyers that have read every word to make sure they can skirt the law and not be held liable for mail fraud. However, in my book, that is exactly what this is. I put everything in the return envelope, put their address as the return address (available from the BBB), and dropped it in a mailbox. So, they wasted the postage sending it to me and had to pay the return postage for me to return it. I also blacked out my personal information on the letter.
Do NOT fall for such a scam. If you ever win any legit $$$$ it comes with no strings attached. Buyer BEWARE!
I too recognize the "winning number" aspect is misleading; readers are bound to think they have already won until they read the entire paper and note that they are already winners only IF the number on the page happen to be the winning number. As for the Fee REQUIRED to be sent, it is MANDATORY ONLY if you want a chance at an extra $12, 500.00. It is not a purchase of their products (the products are on a webpage or in a $5 paper catalogue), but rather, it is only an entry fee, not a purchase (technically). However, just like purchases, it does not increase the chances of winning the Two Million dollars. If I have won (or might win) the grand prize, why would I send in any money in the hopes of winning an additional considerably smaller award ONLY if I also win the Grand Prize? Notice also that the $12, 500 is NOT in cash, but can ONLY be used to purchase their products.
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Finally, there are two more catches. First, the letter has no date, yet it must be returned postmarked within seven days or the entry is void. How do THEY even know when 7 days are up (and is that from the time you received it, they sent it, or you actually opened it)? Did they put a date in the letter three months ahead of the final time for the receiving of entries in order to make readers think that that date somehow falls within the seven day window? Will they will gladly receive your entries until then; but promptly disqualify it as late? Secondly, They admit in the letter that NO winning number may have been sent out in the mailing at all. That doesn't sound like there is a one in three hundred million chance of winning so long as they send out the 300, 000, 000 letters in many small batches. There is nothing indicating the mailings are random. Therefore, they could save entering the winning number until the final batch. That may still sound fair to some until it is realized that the last batch could be to only a single person, the one they wanted to win. Of course, I've read that they never actually post winner's names, so who is to say ANY batch gets the number that the computer generates or fails to generate once ever 300, 000, 000 to 1 times in the entire contest period before starting over? They may mail out batches totaling only two or three hundred thousand total. This would make the odds of their ever having to pay out very small indeed. It is all in how the rules of selection (not included in what they mail out to potential winners/chumps) are spelled out in their own contest working policy of record.
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I too was initially excited about "having won" (I could sure use the $$) - but even now, while I know I can't win if I don't send in the entry, I am not wasting the postage only to confirm that I am at my address and gullible.
inflation must of gotten to them..i received my letter to..but their wanting 12.99 from me..this dated to year 2015.
Where are the U.S. Postal Inspectors? They should be all over this scam and the scam artists who are perpetrating this fraud. It is being sent via U.S. Postal Service so it is MAIL FRAUD! To the Postal Inspectors should they see this posting the letters are mailed using metered presorted First Class postage permit number 4280 from Kansas City, MO P.O Box 2905 Kansas City, KS [protected] Please SHUT THEM DOWN!
People, this is a scam! I received this notice today and it had scam written all over it. Do you really think you win 2 million dollars without even entering a legal sweepstakes or lottery, and that its that easy? And no one asks you to pay $12.99 as they asked me to. Just think of all of the money they make of of all of the poor schmucks that fall for this and other such scams. Protect yourself. beware.
I received my letter on 3/16/2016 and because of inflation or greed the price to "play" has now gone up to $12.99. I figured it was a scam when I opened it and after reading all 3 pieces of paper, I knew it was phoney. I sent the photos, etc. to the BBB. The KS BBB has given them a "F" rating.
I just received my "WINNING" notification also! I spent :45 (45 seconds) of my time, called the above number [protected]) and told them I was with Next-Gen2. And they just won $4, 000, 000.00 and to please send a payment of $14USD TO China to claim their wings. I thanked them for wasting postage and their replies are only for folks that are trying to get through the recession as easily as they can. THESE FOLKS ARE SCAMMERS...HANG ON TO YOUR HARD EARNED $$$ FOLKS, Thanks for all of the replies!