Confirmed prize over $3,341,006!
When I got home today an envelope awaited me that said
Response of Record Must Be Filed
Return at Once
I opened it and inside I found this letter
Sworn to secrecy? Because I won something? Since when?
Those were my first thoughts upon opening this letter. I hadn't even read the rest and already alarms were sounding in my head.
At the bottom of the letter I saw
Yep, I'd found it. The catch! I only needed to send Las Vegas Actionable Award Program $20 to get my money. Like that was going to happen!
Then I read a little more closely.
LVAAP is a service offered to our customers that provides information on available sweepstakes that are open to the public for entry. Subscribers are solely responsible for investigating, viewing, and complying with any and all rules, restrictions, requirements, or provisions set forth in all sweepstakes.
Ah, now I see. I give them $20 and they give me a list of sweepstakes I could enter. Hell, I just Googled the word sweepstakes and got 50,300,000 results in .20 seconds. That doesn't included the Sponsored Links.
If you get something like this in the mail throw it away. They're hoping that you won't read the small print, but will instead send them $20 for your supposed millions. If you do read the small print, they are hoping that you won't know that you can do a search on Google and get the same information they will send you.
When ever you get anything in the mail (snail or e-mail) that looks too good to be true look it over very carefully. The vast majority of offerings that look to good to be true are fraud. Personally, I think they all are fraud.
If you get a letter saying you've won something but need to send in money for processing. . . it's a fraud.
If someone calls you at home and says you have won something and they just need your bank account information to pay a processing fee before they send it to you DON'T! Not only is this a fraud, these people are stealing your identity.
A little suspicion can be healthy. At least for your bank account.
Marinade Dave:
Congratulations!
3 March 2006, 9:47 ammojotek:
I shed a tear when I read your post. Do you know why? I shed a tear for all of the poor saps who will undoubtedly fall for that scam. Of course after that I chuckled and thanked my lucky stars that I'm not a 'nincumpoop'.
3 March 2006, 12:06 pmAsharEdith:
Oh! I hate all that crap mail!
5 March 2006, 9:28 amMatt:
Even better, take this sort of scam to the Post Office. They can bring real legal action against these folks. Also, most newspapers and TV stations have an omsbudman to investigate fraud.
Matt
5 March 2006, 9:29 amhttp://www.ferociousflirting.com
EKENYERENGOZI MICHAEL CHIMA:
From the notorious Nigerian Internet Scammers to the obnoxious American Internet Scammers/Spammers, they are the worst nightmares of the world wide web and if all us will only agree to ignore and delete them always, none of us would be taken for a ride again.
6 March 2006, 11:00 amJeffrey Ezzell:
Guess what my brother got the same thing we are litigating when we can and oh yeah guess what those other names under yours those people or at least some died in wars to protect this countries freedom this company is going down and i will make sure of my brother spent two years in Iraq fighting for thios countries freedom to who deserver this?
6 March 2006, 6:22 pmdavid:
well i am sworn to secrecy
7 March 2006, 11:23 pmTom:
First I would like to thank the people that put this info together, it saved me alot of time. See, I got one of these letters so I checked it out. I saw the same thing on my screen as my Award Notice and I knew then. If we all keep looking out for each other we will all be better off. Thank you
18 March 2006, 5:44 pmKaren:
I received the same letter as posted!!! I pulled up their name and read this web page. I printed it and mailed it back to them in their prepaid envelope. Let them pay for that!!!!
20 March 2006, 11:59 amcatherine:
i received the letter coincidently one day before my birthday,my mom saw the letter and she immidiatley didnt believe it, but i was doubting and i sent the 20 dollars i figured that it could be true.it looks kind of real,so many legal terms on the paper, to me it sounded ok.but then i saw on the internet that it is a scam .
21 March 2006, 7:19 amcatherine:
magdalia@bellsouth.net
21 March 2006, 8:47 amberchell:
i just opened my mail an hour ago and immediately decided to look it up. i am outrage and am requesting information on how to sue to sorry son of a……………..
28 March 2006, 1:32 pmLinn:
I opened up my mail today,guess what?
3 April 2006, 2:05 pmI won 3,341,006.00…!
Yeah right they are full of it.
I really did receive that letter today.It looks exactly like the one you posted.
I wish I could do something about it.I know some people really fall for it and lose money.
DOROTHEA:
I FELL FOR IT. I SENT THEM A MONEY ORDER. I WILL BE FILING A CLAIM AT THE POST OFFICCE TOMORROW. THANKS TO YOUR WEBSITE.. ( I KNEW BETTER)
3 April 2006, 4:59 pmwade burke:
i also received this . I am glad that some suckers paid and not me.
10 April 2006, 5:59 pmJanet:
I just received my letter in the mail stating the same thing. I looked it up on the net and found this website.Thank You for putting this site together it saved me 20 dollars.
11 April 2006, 8:51 pmC. Murr:
Well… I read the small print first. Then I looked for Info on the Net. Then I sent them an e-mail to let them know that I was forwarding everything to my old comrads where I used to work… the Treasury Dept.
I asked them to look into earnings etc and other possible illegal activities.
The parent company for LVAAP is supposedly out of California:
Manila Industries, Inc.
3843 S. Bristol St. #628
Santa Ana, CA 92704
Phone: 949-743-1697
Since they have used the U.S. Mail and crossed state lines with their fraud, they could quite possibly be……..BIG TIME!
17 April 2006, 9:41 pmDavid:
I'd like to tell you I recieved a letter today and I'd like to thank you for the info on this bogus company, but I can't tell anyone.
17 April 2006, 11:10 pmMatthew Tutwiler:
I was fooled the first time and as many others, sent in $20 dollars. Then as a response, I got another letter asking for 20 more. This time I looked it up. If anyone finds a way to take legal action please don't hesitate to email that information to me at MTutwiler1@excite.com. I would really appreciate it.
18 April 2006, 2:09 pmSierra Smith:
I got a letter too…..
20 April 2006, 12:18 pmsome people are so low in this world.
Thanks for the false hope….
Gabriel Nava:
I too got a form in the mail saying I had won 3 million dollars and i'm like yeah i'm rich but then i look here and see that they are frauds and i see someone puts cement so i take a relly big tv box and fill it with peed and pooped on rocks. I got the envelope and glued it to the box and put their address on the return address. Here in Atlanta it costs $200 dollars for 100 pounds of rocks sended by mail so instead of 20 dollars they'll owe $200 and they will get peed & pooped on rocks
24 April 2006, 9:04 pmJanice:
What's the big secret? I'm sure if I were foolish enough to send LVAAP cash, check, or a money order for $20, it would definitely "be the day I would remember for the rest of my life." Would love to see these scammers put out of business. I hate to waste that prepaid reply envelope, so I will send it back empty. Thanks for the info.
25 April 2006, 4:31 pmmargaretmcelwain:
Can we get together and sue them for there scheme? They used us mail? margaret mcelwain
27 April 2006, 11:37 amCHRISTPHER CARTER:
KILL'EM ALL AND BURY THEM ALL UNDER THE BUILDING THEY'RE USING TO PLAY WITH POEPLE'S EMOTION, THAT'S HARSH TO SAY, BUT THEY DESEREVE IT..
10 May 2006, 6:38 pmJaMES:
thar is soo FRAUD!!!
30 May 2006, 3:11 pm