Sheriff’s office warns residents of scams
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From Staff Reports
Published: September 2, 2008
The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office warns residents to look out for scams.
A Stokesdale man recently received a letter informing him that he had won $250,000 in a “consumer promotion draw.“ Enclosed with the letter was a check for $4,680, which the man was instructed to deposit for the payment of the Canadian tax applicable to his winning. Also included in the letter was a money gram in the amount of $3,970 to a location in Canada. This type of “out-of-country” money transfer letter is a common scam, according to the sheriff’s office.
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Posted by ( blue51 ) on September 07, 2008 at 8:02 am
I had a similiar thing happen inform readers you can not win a foreign lottery I found this out after contacting the Attorney Generals Office and the Federal Trade Commission. The best thing to do is to turn the checks into the banks they are drawn on so the banks can go after these people for fraud.
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