Consumer Award Advisory Service "Near Ripoff" Check any Suspicious mail that you may get, that is giving you free money. I did, and I found This web site. Las Vegas Nevada

Consumer Award Advisory Service and their like are simply another version of one of the oldest scams in existence the pigeon drop.

The way the pigeon drop works is this:

The conman walks up to someone and says he found a bundle of money, and even shows the victim (the pigeon) that the bundle does indeed contain cash. The conman then gives the victim a spiel about how he needs him to hold it for safekeeping while he (the conman) goes for the police. The conman then says that he needs the victim to put up some money for good faith or something like that.

The victim gives the conman a few hundred or whatever cash he has on him and the conman gives the victim the bundle of cash (which has now been switched for a bundle containing newspaper) and the conman disappears, never to be seen again.

That's what's happening with C.A.A.S. The idea is to steal a little from a lot of people then disappear, only to open up shop somewhere else with a similar scam. The beauty of it (for the scammers) is that $21.95 is too little for most people to worry about so the victims will do nothing.

This is definitely mail fraud but by the time the Feds get interested enough to investigate the scammers have closed down this particular con and are lying low until the heat is off. They'll be back soon, though, with another scam.

The rule to remember is this: if you're truly entitled to an award or a prize you NEVER should have to put up any kind of money to get it. If you're asked to put out money up front, you're being scammed.