I also received a check but in the amount of $ 6000.00 for legal fees. It from Emily Carr University fo art & design. It was also from Lloyd Branson Law firm Associate & Sweepstake Inc. They said that I have won $380,000US and wanted me to deposit the check immediately and then contact Franco Bruno. The check was from Royal Bank of Canada. I knew it was a SCAM.
This phone number is affiliated with an 'advance fee lottery' scam. The company name is; Lloyd Branson & Associates Suite 1120-336 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC V3X 3K6. The potential victim is sent a letter from B. Mainsworth Richardson (Attorney) informing him that he is a winner of the Australian Sweepstakes in the amount of $312,000. Enclosed with the letter is a check to pay the legal, insurance premium, and processing fees on the purported winnings, in the amount of $6,800.92 (counterfeit). This is a SCAM.
CALLED MR. RICHARDSON AND HE TRIED TO GET ME TO GIVE HIM THE CHECK NUMBER SO THAT HE COULD ACTIVATE THE CASHIERS CHECK, AND I NEED TO TAKE IT TO THE BANK RIGHT AWAY AND THEN GO AND PAY THE FEES AND THEN UPS WOULD BE SENDING ME 40,000.00. I DIDNT GIVE HIM THE CHECK NUMBER SO THAT I COULD TAKE IT TO THE BANK AND CASH IT BUT I LOOKED ON HERE AND SAW THAT IT WAS A SCAM.
I also received this letter with check of 7,250.44 toward the payout of 273,000.00 cash award. I haven't pursued or called on it yet. Checked here first thinking it was surely a scam. What do they want and what happens when you call?
Since the check was from Chase and that is my bank I took it there and they checked it out, it is a scam and I will take them the letter so they can give it to their fraud department.