Fraud or Not

[deepsouthtexas]

Hello,
My sister received a check in the mail for 3,000 us dollars from a company called Oxford Financial Management Group, a subsidiary of Eurotrust Corporation. Their address is
145 Southland DR. S.E. Suite 204 Calgary, AB T2J5X5

The letter said she was picked from millions of people and is in the class B registration process.. She has to deposit the check and then contact them by phone: 1-902-412-2659

I did a search for their address and found this site and a few posts about companies posing as a financial service. Is there anyway I can dig deeper and find out more specific information about this? Or is this really a scam?

Thanks..

[Saturn Girl]

Hello and welcome.

It is a scam. The check is fake and she should not deposit it at all. See this thread on fake checks.

http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2072

[Daneel]

More specifically, it's these scammers again:
http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1746
I recognise some of those names.

The check is equally fake in either case though. Do not cash it. Here is some relevant advice from that thread:
If you received the check/letter through the US Mail...you need to file a police report and the law enforcement agency will most likely forward the case to the US Postal Inspection Service for the follow-up. The USPIS has a taskforce in place with the RCMP to work on the lottery/fee scams that originate in Canada.

You can contact your USPIS office directly...their number is listed in the phone book, or obviously can be obtained through your local post office.

Good luck.

[anyace]

Received a form from
TAD UK

requesting $30 fee payable to them for

PRIVILEGED PRIVACY RIGHTS CONTRACT DOCUMENT

I am the Ms R Dickson aforemention by the Contractor to be henceforth referred to as "TAD" My place of residence is BELLBOWRIE QLD 4070 and I've legally been accorded entry=into-contract-status (which cannot be withdrawn for any reason except failure of a timelhy response) as NAME NO.1 for the following CONFIRMED prize ... noted this date of dedicated confirmed status 09 June 2006 in the reviewed Status Report Entitlement .. as still UNCOLLECTED BY Ms R Dickson in the amount of $2.049,366. Please put Response by me on record and immediately expedite report-release re: said pound amount.

Appreciate your comments:o

[Saturn Girl]

The strangeness of it indicates fraud. Hello and welcome!

good you came here before sending them anything. if you have the headers from this email and could post them, that will tell us more about the scammer.

[anyace]

YOU ARE OFFICIALLY SWORN TO SECRECY
ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENTIAL

PRIZED RECORD NON-GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES REPORT(s)

CONGRATULATIONS NO.1 Ms R Dickson RESTRICTIVE - TELL NOBODY!

Congratulations from all of us - been trying to reach you

THIS IS A DAY YOU MAY REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

postmarked/prioritised (09/06/06 - 12/06/06)

MARKETING IMAGING OFFICIALLY TO FOUR PRIZED NAMES
(FOR THE PRIZED RECORD):
NAME NO. 1 MS R DICKSON $2.049,366
NAME NO. 2 MS PATRICIA JAME $1,562,271
NAME NO 3 Mr John Barclay $1,440,000
NAME NO 4 Ms Natalie Bailey $50,000


Name of Contractor: Transnational Awards Division

Hope this is helpful

[breccia]

I smells very much like a scam. Bellbowrie, Queensland is in Australia, not the UK... It is a small suburb WAY on the outside of Brisbane in Australia, and no major international companies are located there.

Anyace, did you receive this via email or via post? If via email, could you please post the full initial email that you received (with full headers)?

[SeRn]

that is definately a fraud... i'm living in south australia, adelaide and i got the same letter from them and the prize is exactly the same... and the second, third and fourth place winners are the same... it's actually $50 australian... stupidly i sent it to them then looked it up... the part where it says "congratulations, we've been trying to contact you" appeared to be hand written and in pen... so i assumed it was the real thing... boy was i wrong... i hope none of you fall for this fraud the way i did... the cheque didn't come so i looked it up on the net, and this site came up... there goes all my hopes and dreams... hahah

[Unregistered]

I also received the exact letter in the mail from Transnational Awards Division. Seriously though, how could anybody fall for such a scam? Everything about the letter looked suspect from the envelope to the dodgy "hand written" message, then I saw they wanted $30 for the "report-release fee". Cmon people, use some commen sense. I guess people can be blinded by greed.

[FW Admin]

It's very naive to believe that greed motivates people to fall for these scams. Sometimes, it's a need to have a better life, something that is perhaps a struggle within the existence they already have. Other people do play lotteries of all shapes and sizes (legal ones) so when something like this comes up, it's taken as a point of fact.

Lottery scams are simply one facet of the Advance fee Fraud; there are others that tug on peoples' heart strings, or appeal to their generous natures. Simply putting it down to greed is as inaccurate as saying that only gambling addicts play lotteries or bet on horses. Unfortunately, it's one that is applied in far too many cases and victims are further humiliated and hurt, adding insult to the very real and serious injuries they have already received.

It would be appreciated if everyone bore that in mind when posting on this site.