someone says they are an animal rescue outfit and they solicit a $5.00 donation. If you donate you are eleigble to win a lot of money. A follow up call said there were some missing funds and asked for a bank account number. This call was to an older lady that has to have someone sit with her for most of the day. She is an easy target.
My grandfather who is over 80 was scammed by over $1240 from this company. When i called back they said they were a financial institution and also do sweepstakes. I left a message for the president Mr. Powell and the rep Gary Becker who were convienantly unavailble @ the time. I spoke with Michael who said he was not authorized to give out any company information. I contacted my local police department and also the FBI..
call came to my parents and said my mom won millions in the Spanish lottery. Said an attorney would call back the next day to talk with her. 3 weeks passed and the "attorney" called and said the President of Rothschild Investment Corporation (Mr. Powell) would call next week. Found out the legitimate Rothschild Investment Corporation is based out of Chicago (not the Bronx where the phone call came from) and their President is NOT a Mr. Powell. This whole thing stinks to high heaven. Calling the cops and the FBI - beware.
Recieved several calls over the past week regarding an alledged win in the December 2009 El Gordo Spanish lottery. Names I have been given are: Robert Spencer, Account Dept. of Rothschild Securities,Thomas Walker, Attorney , William Powell, President of Rothschild Securities, and a Jenkins and Miller Law Firm in Panama City, Panama that could handle investments from my win. I have not been able to locate any of these individuals as legitimate. They made it all sound so real. Gave me an account number, a file number, their phone number and address in New York and even a number of the so called winning ticket (which does not match with the El Gordo winning number as posted on the internet). I had sense to not give out any information about myself or my bank. I now agree that this is just another scam targeted at us senior citizens.
I started receiving phone calls last Wednesday the 29th of September 2010 from the so call company about winning a sweepstake about 11 months ago. They had my home address and phone number. Since then I have received a call on the 30th of September 2010 and on the 4th of October 2010. I have thought that this is a scam so I have not given much information out. Since reading these entries, I'll inform them about knowing that they are scammers. Thanks to all on this site.
My parents had a call from this same number 718-732-1310 and they even gave an ext. 527 to call back. Said they were with Rothschild. Same story of winning a sweepstakes and was surprised they had not returned the claim forms. The man's name was Henry Decker. I called to speak with the man and of course he wasn't in. He then called my parents the next day and claimed he missed my call and to confrim who I was. He ask that I call him back the next day at 9 am and he still wasn't there. They would not connect me to his extension, so I left a message. I called 3 times within 10 minutes and got 3 different MEN answering the phone and had the excuses, he is not in, his voice mail is full, let me look on my computer...he is not in yet, at which point they disconnected me twice and once just hung up when I ask what kind of scam they were trying to pull on people! It's really sad! I just called one more time for kicks and they disconnected me again. I pray people don't give out their information.