MassMutual Financial Group Letter RE: Award Winning Notification. Including check for 2,925.45 covering surcharge to be paid on commission to the Lotto Regulatory Board. Ripoff Vancouver British Columbia

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My letter was sent by MassMutual Financial Group. Address 5th Floor 1770 West 7th Avenue Vancouver, BC.

A check was enclosed. Drawer noted as HSBC Bank USA. N.A. Remitter noted in upper left corner as Liza Johnson. Lower left noted: Issued by Integrated Payment Systems Inc. Englewood, Colorado. Payable through HABC Bank USA, N.A. Los Angeles, CA. Authorized signature is not ledgeable, but is not the same as remitter. Amount: 2925.45.

The letter, dated Aug 14th, 2007 said that a drawing was held on April 12th, 07. Participants selected through a computer ballot system, drawn from 149,000 phone numbers and utilities bills. It gave a ticket number/serial number and said that 46,500 USD cash was my winning payout from total prize money of 25,234,000 shared amoung winners.

The last paragraph instructed me to call a payment coordinator at 306-351-5474 as soon as you recieve this notice to assist in finalizing the payment process.

I was sceptical because it seemed to good to be true and suspected that it probably was. A lady with an Indian accent answered and instructed me to deposit the check in my bank then to call back with further instruction. It was difficult to understand her, but she didn't seem to want to answer my questions and said it would be better if they verified my true idenity after the check was deposited and to call her after my deposit.

I took the check and letter to my bank and asked them if they had some type of fruad data base or some way to verify the validity of this. They took a copy of the letter and check and sent it to their fruad dept, but advised that it looked like a scam.

I returned home with the letter and check and started searching. I found that Mass Mutual was a legitamate company, but the address in my letter didn't match any addresses from their website. I looked for Intergrated Payment systems and found a legitimate website that looked like a company with services similar to Pay Pal. I searched for loto scams and found this site. Hope that this will help to catch these guys.

Craig couch
Collierville, Tennessee
U.S.A.