Mutual Financial Services International Claim Dept. SCAM ARTISTS PREYING ON HOPEFUL, HARD-WORKING PEOPLE Midland Ontario

I was sent a letter in the mail from Mutual Financial Services, Inc. / International Claim Department, 300 HWY 88, Midland Ontario, Canada L4R1Y5 instructing me to call Bob Morris at 647-219-5070. Enclosed with the letter was a check for $4890. drawn on First Bank Inc. 7435 Watson Rd. St. Louis, Missori 63141. I called him and he told me to deposit the check and then mail back a check for $2985. to cover gov't. taxes for the $250,000. Shoppers Sweepstakes I had won. The check needed to be mailed immediately to Mrs. Lesa Joseph: 150 2nd Ave, Ottawa, Canada K1P5P2 in her name and it needed to be a certified or cashier's check taken to Western Union for a fee of $139. cash. I took the $4980. check to my bank and asked them to look up that bank to make sure it was a real bank and the routing numbers checked out as did the address of that bank, so I deposited the check and called Bob Morris back as instructed, but informed him that I would not be mailing any funds to them until the check cleared my bank. Three business days later my bank informed me that their check was returned. They could not tell me why it was returned. I then tried to find this organization on the internet, but found them on this Ripp-off site instead where you had listed another woman in California with the same story. I want these parasites to pay for their cruelty. I thought when I found out that the bank was real, that the Sweepstakes was real too! I am so very disappointed, since I actually got my hopes up about this.

Penny
Richmond, Virginia
U.S.A.