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Hi all. My name's Steve Brachmann, and I'm a journalism student at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. I'm currently writing an article about lottery scams, and I'm trying to find someone who has personally been through this type of situation and wouldn't mind talking about it. If you wish to keep your identity withheld, I wouldn't be against allowing anonymity in the article. If anyone here would like to contribute, please send me a PM. Thank you, and I hope to hear from you soon.

what would happen if you just say cashed the check for cash, since its made out to you, what could anyone do?

Don't even think about it. Knowingly passing a bad cheque is a crime. If you were to go to a cheque cashing place and cash the cheque there, they WOULD require ID, and you can bet your bottom dollar that hidden cameras would get a nice mug shot of your face for the police to use as evidence after they arrest you.

I just got the same thing that everyone is talking about. Some minor differences, though:

"Merchant Processing Group" instead of the one you all reported
"Melissa Freeman" is the claims agent

I sort of wondered about this so I went to the "North American Title Company, Maitland branch" website, got the contact people's eMail addresses and sent them an eMail asking if this check was legit. gave them the bank routing number, account number, check number, one of the two readable signatures (Compton is the last name).

Then I googled "dr. jennifer white" and found you guys!

Unfortunately so many people are naive of such things (especially our senior citizens). Somebody should find out who these idiots are and put them away!!

What was the amount of the check?

Hello Everyone!

I received my $50,000 USD Lottery winning letter yesterday! I looked high and low on the internet for information on the "OMEGA LOTTO" and found absolutely nothing!---last night-- I got in late and was reading my mail after business hours...then today "after" I deposited the check...I searched the internet...again...and came to this website..if I had seen all of this last nite I wouldn't have deposited the check. After I deposited the check as the letter instructed I came home and my bank called to tell me that there was a "freeze" on the bank account from where the "processing fees" check was written from! Sooo I went back to my bank and took them a copy of my Lottery letter and they are going to do some investigating!
Meanwhile---I got my "telephone call" tonite from a 416-777-7776 number and my "agent"--I her that the check funds were "frozen" and she was "shocked" and told me she would call and find out what the problem is....I'll stay posted---I am going to ride it out because I know my bank is going to "thoroughly" investigate the letter and the check!

Ok I received a similar letter but from a different company than everyone else that I have read posts from. This one is from the Royal British Lotto British Random Draws Award Certificate. The letter has a ref # & a winner code. It is dated for Otober 6, 2006. It said I was one of 23 winners. I received a check in the amt of $2998.50 for the international fees of $2844.50. It stated my clearance fee should be remitted to our designated "North American Agent" Consequently I will receive a total of $115,000 minues $7854. I was told to contact claim agent "Jennifer Parker" of Zenith Financial Management Group at 320 St Mary Ave Ste 205 Winnipeg, MB with a telephone number of 204-952-4318. When I called the first time it was after hours & the voice mail box was full. I did speak with someone saying she was "Jennifer" She told me to deposit the check & after 2-3 days when it is cleared I would be receiving a telephone call from someone. If I didn't receive the call then I was to call them. Well before I did any searching I did deposit the check. I have now read all these posts & I know that I did the wrong thing by depositing that check. Now I will be calling my bank tomorrow & I hope that they don't deposit that check into my savings account.

This thread has given this board some good exposure for the lottery letters on the search engines. Let's keep it rolling by posting the letters and the AMOUNT of the check you receive. The amount is very important, it gives me a search figure I can look for. Also post the fictitious name of your contact and the Company the letter came from, that will help bring more people here when they do their google search. Everyone thanks for your help and keep it going!

They will deposit the check into the account number you put on your deposit slip.................

I could not agree with you more!

Please, anyone who has not already done so, post the full name of the company you got the check from, any contact info on that company (address, phone numbers, person you were supposed to contact), the check amount . . . any of the information that YOU would have typed into a search engine, post it here! You could end up saving someone else from this scam!

I found some recent news links on this scam

California
http://www.nbc11.com/news/10099239/detail.html

Illinois
http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp? ... 7&nav=8H3x

Texas
http://elpasotimes.com/breakingnews/ci_4465566

North Carolina
http://www.thepilot.com/stories/2006093 ... scams.html
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/15609100.htm

Arkansas
http://www.thnews.com/article.php?id=467

Kansas
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2 ... ictim.html

i received a letter from a different company. the company's name is IMPERIAL LOTTO MANAGEMENT INC. and the amount of the check was $2984.44. My agent's name was Barbara Holmes and the number that was given to me was 1-403-3838047.
There was in the header:
IMPERIAL LOTTO MANAGEMENT INC.
LOTTO CLAIMS DEPARTMENT (NORTH AMERICA)
13 Hills Avenue South, Suite 210 CAlgary, AB T2R 1K8
dated October 3, 2006
Also the check was an AMSOUTH Bank check which is one of the banks down here in Florida.
(MONDAY NIGHT) When I tried calling the number the first time I was trying to call from my cell but for some reason it wasn't allowing the call to go through which is odd because I can call anywhere. (TUESDAY) So I called on a land line and got through just fine but kept getting a recording The first 2 hours of calling the mailbox was full but I finally got through and spoke to her. After I told her I deposited the money and it would be posted onto my account the next day she got so excited. She told me to go to any Wal-Mart and money gram $2654 to ALLEN MYERS in CALGARY CANADA. She also told me NOT to say anything to any of the employees because there are companies out there that do scam people and that they were not one of them. When I told her that my bank advised me to wait until next week to see if the check would clear or not and that I felt more comfortable on waiting on that she told me that she would rather me send the money now that way she could send the money to me ASAP. I spoke to her maybe 5 times that day and when she was giving me the information to transfer the money I swear I heard a washer and dryer in the background so I'm guessing she was making the calls from a house. Also me and my friend EARTH GOOGLED the address and it appeared to be in a neighborhood.
I've contacted my bank so many times on this check and I even told them that the check was a fake and that I was going to contact the attorney general but they told me to wait it out. I even told them to take the check out of my account but they said they couldn't. All they told me to do was wait and if it was (which I know it is) a fake they will send me the check back.
There's my 2 day story!!!

Do you have international calling on your cell? You were calling Canada.

yeah i can call anywhere