Zurich and Shaw Financial Group Ripoff RE AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION North American Utilities REGINA SASKATCHEWAN

I rec'd a notification letter from this company along with a check in the amount of $2,780.00 written on the First Commonwealth bank. I contacted the bank and verified that the check is fraud as is the letter and 'winning' information. These items have begun to surface in the past week.

After obtaining my verbal permission, the real bank collected my name, address and contact telephone number ONLY and requested that I send the letter, check and envelope (that the documents were mailed in) to them at the following address:

First Commonwealth Bank
Security and Fraud Department
654 Philadelphia Street
Indiana, PA 15701

They are conducting an investigation. If you are the recipient of a check and letter from this group, I suggest you contact the bank yourself (do not rely on my information either) at: 1-800-711-BANK (2265). They will request you to send the documents to the above address.

It was a very well written letter (no typo's) on decent looking colored letterhead logo (which any colored printer and Word Art could have produced), fully justified (blocked) paragraph style with what looks like Arial or similiar font size 12. An attempt was made to watermark the paper also.

Letter is signed by James Mack with instructions for me to contact payment coordinators Mrs. Sarah Bissar or Mr. David Owens to finalize the payment process.

Contents declared my being a winner by computer ballot system of North American Utilities drawing held on Monday April 12th, 2007.

The only oddness about the letter that I could detect when reading it (other than me being an actual winner which I knew I was not) was how the author wrote the word 'draw' in the first paragraph. In America, we would have written 'drawing'. The second paragraph had a slight oddity also in the first sentence wherein a comma was placed in a very odd position making the sentence awkward reading and sounding.

The check itself had two oddities. The words 'Official Check' were in the upper right hand corner under the bank identification number. The font on this language is completely different from any other font used. The final item was the words under the signature line were misspelled as 'Authorezid Signature'. A screaming fraud flag if ever there was one.

Typically these overseas fraudulent documents are so poorly written by someone who obviously cannot write or speak proper english that they might as well have written on them 'sucker!'. However, these two document were well done despite the few oddities noted above.

Anyway, hope this helps others not to be caught up in a pipe dream of free money and winnings!

Angelyn
Poplar Bluff, Missouri
U.S.A.