RBC Financial, International Finance Department Received mailing - entitled to $125,000.00 in Sweepstakes and Lottery Draw Windsor Ontario

Received a letter on 12/1/08 from RBC Financial, International Finance Department stating that I am a winner in the second category (?) of Sweepstakes and Lottery Draw on 11/23/08. I am entitled to $125,000.00, wow. I won't go into the details of the letter because the previous report dated 11/25/08 filed by Natasha in New Oxford, Pennsylvania posted exactly the same thing that is in my letter. This time it was still John Anderson listed as the claim agent and the number is 1-416-732-3981.

The first thing I did was research every piece of information that I could find from the letter. 1st thing that came up was ripoffreport.com. The company listed as the issuer of the check turned out to be a plumbing supply company in Minneapolis, MN. The bank it was drawn upon is Wells Fargo Bank. After researching the letter it is really obvious that this is some kind of scam, so I reported it to the Reporting Economic Crime Online (RECOL) website (http://www.recol.ca) which is a Canadian Fraud reporting site, as well as the Better Business Bureau, the FTC and other fraud reporting organizations. I also contacted the Windsor Police Service, just in case this creep actually is in Ontario.

The thing I'd like to warn people about is the fact that the letter looks very professional, other than minor grammatical and spelling errors. It has the Royal Bank of Canada's logo and heading and is on bond paper. The check appears to be authentic. Routing and Account numbers look real and the check is even watermarked. It appears that these people have been doing this for years, and I can't understand why there doesn't appear to be any concerted effort by RBC, Windsor Police or any of the companies that have been listed as issuers of the checks to actually DO anything about it. The people sending these letters are real scumbags. I wish the authorities would at least try to lock these Aholes away.

Mike
Fairfax, Virginia
U.S.A.