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rhoda3
17 October 2006, 23:43
I just received a check in the mail drawn on an account of Jewish Community Centers of Chicago for $2954.43 stating I won the Irish Lottery and I am supposed to call the number at the bottom of the letter to arrange to send these funds (after I deposit them, of course) to the North American sponsor. I happen to work for a bank and I know this is a scam. Folks, beware of this. This is the second such letter I have received in a month. The last one was a Canadian Lottery and the check was drawn on an account of Eastway Aviation. I forwarded the last one to the local and Federal authorities and will do the same with this one.

breccia
18 October 2006, 18:30
Hi rhoda3 and welcome to Fraudwatchers.org. :welcome:

The scam you have posted here sounds like it was carried out by the same group of scammers which are mentioned at this long-running and very informative thread on our website:

http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1746

Many thanks for reporting this. You may also like to report the counterfeit checks they have sent you to the US Postal Inspection Service. Thanks for helping to warn everyone out there about this scam.