British Random Draws International - Monica Johnson Gateway Financial Management Services ripoff check fraud mail fraud Calgary Alberta

On Tuesday Sept.5,06 my wife received a letter from British Random Draws International claiming that she had won $85,000,000 dollars in US currency in a drawing. They sent her a check for $2,995.60 to pay for the international clearance fees of $2,840.40 which was to be "remitted to our designated North American Agent."

There were some things that sent up red flags for me right away.

1) My wife had received a similar e-mail at the beginning of the year and i had checked into it and found outit was a scam.

2)The check was drawn on an American bank but the agent was in Canada,if the check is drawn on American bank it stands to reason the agent wowuld be from the same bank.

3)When talking about the assistance check it said"Assistance check of $2,995.60 is enclosed to enable you finance the international clearance fees of $2,840.40.

If this was a legitimate business sending this document they would be using software that would have caught the gramatical error "to enable you finance" and it would have inserted the word to,so that it would have read to enable you to finance.

4) The check was for $155.20 more than the clearance fees. My wife wanted to call and activate the check right away and I told her no I wanted to check it out first by asking a friend who lives just outside of London if she knew anything about this lottory.I was not able to do so that night and the next day my wife called the number they had given her and got an answering machine with a message saying that the answering machine was full.

She then told a friend of ours about it and he told her she should take the check to her bank and ask them to verify the authenticity of the check but she was unable to do so due to other appointments. I decided to do an online search and found out that the institute that the check is drawn on does exist but when I went to check out the Canadian company I found this site and read several reports about another canadian company and the British Random Draw so I felt I should write a report on this new company they are using.

I hope that the authorities can catch whoever is doing this soon. I am keeping both the letter and the check.

James
Waterford, Michigan
U.S.A.