Ripoff Report Needs Your Help!
X  |  CLOSE
Report: #521092

Complaint Review: Hamilton Moore & Associates - Markham Ontario

  • Submitted:
  • Updated:
  • Reported By: Chaz — Notts Other United Kingdom
  • Author Not Confirmed What's this?
  • Why?
  • Hamilton Moore & Associates 4 - 5694 Highway 7 East, Suite 412 Markham, Ontario United States of America

Hamilton Moore & Associates Charles Hamilton Sr. - Controller Hamilton who??? Markham, Ontario

Show customers why they should trust your business over your competitors...

Is this
Report about YOU
listed on other sites?
Those sites steal
Ripoff Report's
content.
We can get those
removed for you!
Find out more here.
How to fix
Ripoff Report
If your business is
willing to make a
commitment to
customer satisfaction
Click here now..

I received a letter from Mr Charles Hamilton Sr. on 26.10.09 professing to have been trying desperately to contact me as I was eligible to receive a cheque for 550,000.00.  Mr Hamilton couldnt have been trying very hard as he had my address down to a T, but this was the first Id heard of him. 


Apparently if I sent him a cheque for 14.95 to cover all allocation and processing costs, he would send me a cheque for 550k.  And into the bargain a pair of pearl earrings.


Now if I was Mr Hamilton and I was sending him a large sum of money, you think he would at least want a phone number or an email address so that he could thank me.  No such luck, the remainder of the letter contains no such details.


Flip over the page and according to the Official Rules, No Purchase Necessary to enter or win. Purchasing does not improve your chances of winning.  You have not yet won.  Purchase what exactly???  As previously stated the 14.95 is for allocation and processing costs, this surely cannot therefore refer to the earrings?  Nevertheless assuming that it does refer to the earrings then surely I do not have to pay this 14.95 as NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN?


Oh and You have not yet won?  Make up your mind Mr Hamilton am I eligible to receive the cheque or have I not yet won?


Moreover, if I do want to know who has won I can write to them after 15th February 2011! No address supplied for such purposes of course.  I doubt very much if I will even be thinking about Mr Hamilton Sr. in 16 months time, let alone writing to him.


And one other point, the letter states that I am eligible for 550,000.00 when actually the prize is $1000,000.00. Now Im no expert but $1000,000.00 does not convert to 550,000.00.  Can you really advertise a prize as a certain amount when it wont be that amount?


Now if I wanted to re-affirm my address to Mr Hamilton Sr. I would turn the tables and send him the whole lot back, (minus the stamp naturally) requesting my cheque and earrings and upon receipt of said I would reimburse him the 14.95 plus postage. (Allowing time for the cashing of such a cheque of course).  However not wanting to re-affirm my address to such an organisation I wont be doing as such.  Those of you who are thinking of sending this letter and your collected junk mail will be confirming to Mr Hamilton Sr. your address details.  A bit like the time you hit the unsubscribe here tab on the junk email that you received and immediately flooded your inbox with 400 more junk emails!


This is clearly a scam.  Sadly I work with and know of people who would be taken in by this scam.  Its therefore possibly a better idea to put the whole lot in a plain envelope and address it to the police station local to Mr Hamilton Sr. with a brief cover note asking them to investigate.  This surely has to be a better waste of the Overseas Postage stamp required than waiting for your pearl earrings!

This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 11/07/2009 08:38 PM and is a permanent record located here: https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/hamilton-moore-associates/markham-ontario-l3p-1b4/hamilton-moore-associates-charles-hamilton-sr-controller-hamilton-who-markham-ont-521092. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year. Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report. READ: Foreign websites steal our content

Search for additional reports

If you would like to see more Rip-off Reports on this company/individual, search here:

Report & Rebuttal
Respond to this report!
What's this?
Also a victim?
What's this?
Repair Your Reputation!
What's this?
Featured Reports

Advertisers above have met our
strict standards for business conduct.

X
What do hackers,
questionable attorneys and
fake court orders have in common?
...Dishonest Reputation Management Investigates Reputation Repair
Free speech rights compromised

WATCH News
Segment Now