My wife received a letter on Friday 3/13/09 from Mills Consumer Solutions Inc. payment and security center and a check. The letter stated that the company was out of Ohio with this phone number. This is about some sort of sweepstake that took place in November 2008 and she randomly won $100,000.00. There was a check, that looked very much like a real one, for $3,985.00 to be deposited within five days and to call this number so that we could get the rest of the money. I called the phone number on Sunday 3/15/09 with my cell phone to hear the buisness recording if any however an unknown person answered the phone. The person must have scanned my call because he hung up and called me back...what business does that, on a Sunday no less?.
I google map'd the address on both the letter and the check to confirm the fraud information. The business address, 3060 Eggers Ave., Cleveland, OH 44015, and the bank address, First State Bank & Trust, 155th & Hwy 24, Basehor, KS 660077, were in fact fake.
I called the FBI and gave them all of the information.
Hi...I just read your message and wanted to let everyone know that I went through the same thing today. I received the same letter and check, which in fact the check looked real. I took the check to the bank to confirm my suspicions, and sure enough it was a fake. I called the phone number on the letter and talked to a man who seemed nervous and put me on hold several times. He did not answer my questions and said that my name was drawn because I swiped my credit card somewhere. He then got rude and told me that I have 24 hours to deposit the check. The bank teller told me that if I was able to cash the check some where that I would eventually need to pay the amount back to the bank. I am totally irritated by this fraud and hope that people do not fall for this scam. I even looked up the address of the company and the bank, and sure enough those were fake. These people are based out of Canada. I was just curious as to what the FBI told you. I don't know what other steps to take from here. Thank you for your post, I'm glad someone has taken action.
I received a letter on Monday 3/16/09 from Mills Consumer Solutions Inc. payment and security center and a check. The letter stated that I had won some sort of sweepstake and I randomly won $100,000.00. There was a check, that looked very much like a real one, for $3,985.00 to be deposited within five days and to call this number so that we could get the rest of the money. I have not called the phone number, but GOOGLE for information concerning this
The address on the check is DPI ENERGY, LLC - OPERATING ACCOUNT - 2997 LBJ FREEWAY, SUITE 225 - DALLAS, TX 75234. BANK OF TEXAS.
I got the same letter Unfortuntley I cashed mine and went to Vegas....So guess we will find out later whats gonna happen cuz as of now my check was deposited and was ready for cash withdrawl 2 days letter.Nobody answered when I called on Sunday or Monday.