Hello,
I am very unsure as to whether this is a scam or not. I handle over the phone affairs for a parent who is very hard of hearing. Unfortunately, she is also bad at answering just about any lottery mail, the usual "send us money to enter!" type stuff. I just took a phone call from a representative of a lottery company informing us that she won a large sum of money.
Usually this is where I hang up, but that's where it started going sideways. The rep didn't do the "send us X amount to release the funds" speil. She just wanted to confirm the address and set up a date and time for the casheirs check to be delivered, asked if we wanted it to be public or private, even told me that it would be delivered by two gentleman. No asking for cash, no trying to get private information, no "cash this and send X amount back to us"...nothing that usually sends up red flags. Just reminded us that my parent would have to show state issued picture ID before the check would be turned over and once the check was delivered to call them back to confirm delivery.
I've been looking online to see if any one else has ran into something like this, but so far nothing. I checked the phone number she gave and it is for Schenectady, NY, which is where she admitted she was calling from. mailing address also seems to be legit. Most of me believes that this is a fairly well thought out, somehow indirect scheme.
Thanks in advance,
dragonfall
I am very unsure as to whether this is a scam or not. I handle over the phone affairs for a parent who is very hard of hearing. Unfortunately, she is also bad at answering just about any lottery mail, the usual "send us money to enter!" type stuff. I just took a phone call from a representative of a lottery company informing us that she won a large sum of money.
Usually this is where I hang up, but that's where it started going sideways. The rep didn't do the "send us X amount to release the funds" speil. She just wanted to confirm the address and set up a date and time for the casheirs check to be delivered, asked if we wanted it to be public or private, even told me that it would be delivered by two gentleman. No asking for cash, no trying to get private information, no "cash this and send X amount back to us"...nothing that usually sends up red flags. Just reminded us that my parent would have to show state issued picture ID before the check would be turned over and once the check was delivered to call them back to confirm delivery.
I've been looking online to see if any one else has ran into something like this, but so far nothing. I checked the phone number she gave and it is for Schenectady, NY, which is where she admitted she was calling from. mailing address also seems to be legit. Most of me believes that this is a fairly well thought out, somehow indirect scheme.
Thanks in advance,
dragonfall