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 wife received a call from 718-732-1310 today and was told she had won a sweepstake prize and told her that a Solicitor would be calling her to discuss the prize . I took over the call after the lady caller started to ask my wife's age and other personal details . I asked the caller who was the Solicitor that would be calling, she was unable to tell me and she said it could be any one of ten Solicitors they use. Also asked the name of the sweepstake she was supposed to have won , the answer , we cannot give that for security reasons . We may be old but not that dumb. Thanks to Qwest for the ID: do not send .
I received a call today also telling me that I had won a sweepstake prize of money. They ask me a lot of questions and told me that their attorney would be calling me to follow up on the information within a 24 hour period of time. The person that talked to me told me his name was Anthony Spencer and he was with the Wild Child Charity out of New York. I also had caller I.D. and it was from: do not send.
I took a call for my husband from Anthony Spencer On Friday. He told me that my husband had won a sweepstakes prize. He said he did not know which sweepstakes it was, but he would call back to give me the name of the attorney who would handle the account. He called back and gave the name of Harold Winston. (I really didn't expect to hear back because I was very suspicious and asked a lot of
questions.) Today,Monday 6\7/10 I received a call from Harold Winston, who said he was the attorney handling this account. He again said he represented Rothschild Securities and gave me the correct spelling and address because I said I couldn't find themlisted on tne better business bureau.Harold Winston gave me the number 718-732-1310 as his direct line, so I could call him back. He gave me a lot of info about Rothschild Securities and told me the name of the sweepstakes was Spanish El Gorgo.
He made a joke of my not remembering entering this sweepstakes 11 months ago. Beware! He used the names of legitimate companies and sweepstakes. I looked up this sweepstakes on Google and found the following remarks on scamwatch: "Lottery scams will often use the names of legitimate overseas lotteries (often Spanish lotteries) so that even if you do some superficial research, the scam will seem real....It is IMPOSSIBLE for you to win these lotteries if you have not bought a ticket from an authorized distributor in Spain."