Independent Financial Trust Inc. Rip-off unemployed American Tronto, Ont. Canada Tronto, Ontario

I got a letter stating I had won a lottory that was help July 20th, 2007.
They even send a real check with the company name International Exploration Company LLC and the name of the person signing the check was Jay Garfield. The amount of the check was for $4800 and they wanted me to cash the check and send in $3100 to a tax agent in Canada. But they wanted me to call them first. I checked this out and there is a bank in which the check was written out from (Capital One Bank) and the company the check belonged to was real, but when I sent them warnings I did not get a respond, so that means they could be in on it. I emailed a sheriff I know and he told me to report it to the postal inspector since I got it in the mail. This happened to my brother and he took it to his bank and they told him it was a ligit check and they let him cash it, but my brother kept the money. Within a week the bank called to tell him the check bounced and he had to pay it all back. I have been unemployed for 2 years and am in dept up to my eyebrows. Had I not been warned by my brother that this had happened to him I too would have cashed the check and then, not being able to pay the bank back would have ended up in jail. Thanks for you all warning me. So I know I am not the only one who had this happened to. God is watching out for us-

LaurieXXXXXX
Grand Haven, Michigan
U.S.A.

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