A Canadian Lottery scam is now showing up in Illinois. People are getting cashiers checks in the mail, and letters asking them to call the " Lottery representative" to collect the winnings.The letters, from a company calling itself "Shoppers Trust", is based in Ontario Canada, and the police are warning you not to respond to these letters. And now, here's a tip. You do not have to pay anything to collect winnings of any legitimate lottery!
Another scam that might find it's way into your mailbox, looks like a check for Two thousand,five hundred dollars.It is made out to you,and if you cannot read beyond that, honey, your in big trouble. An acquaintance of mine got this thing, rushed out and cashed it,and come to find out, she is illiterate! I know this,now, only because she had no idea that by cashing this check, she was taking out a loan that had to be repaid, with interest and fees.This gimmick caught her,and It might catch you too, if you don't read every blasted word on anything that looks like a check you get, unexpected,and unsolicited in the mail,and since the terms of the loan are clearly spelled out on the front of the check, what Beneficial is doing is completely legal.It may not be ethical, but it is legal.Oh, and one more thing.When you cash this check, you get special checks to spend any way you want, except, you cannot use them to make their loan payment,and their interest rates keep going up, until you're paying over 28% a month.
Once again, not ethical, but legal.
So if you have a friend,or a loved one with this sort of gap in their education, you might want to appraise them of this particularly nasty bit of hocus-pokus.Forewarned is forearmed, you know.
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