Last week I received a letter from Canada with no return address or postage mark over the stamp. I was surprised to find a check for $3,200.00 with in it along with an award notification letter. Apparently I won $50,000 in some sort of lottery I do not remember entering. According to the letter, this $3,2000 check is to pay the taxes on my winnings. Yay for lucky number 93277113!

Before running off to the bank with a boner, the first thing I did was google “Global Financial Trust”. There was a post I found on a scam alert site from some poor chap who received the same exact winning notification letter and check. Unfortunately he was desperate enough to deposit the check into his sisters bank account. He was also ignorant enough to pay off some credit card bills before the Global Financial Trust fake check cleared.

Blank checks like this can be purchased at any office supply store. This is a relatively easy scam to pull off if you are a nimble minded desperate low life with little to no morals that would rather steal from dumb people that work hard instead of doing something you can truly be proud of, like getting a job or dying.

I assume from reading the letter, that since the full amount of my remaining winnings is to be deposited into my bank account, then all I need to do is supply my bank account number which can be used to drain any funds from my account. All I have to do now is call my claim agent KEVIN or JULIE at 1-519-721-5614, which I would also assume to be a hard to trace voice over IP phone number, well at least I would hope so for Kevin or Julie’s sake. But its possible Kevin or Julie were so confident and dumb enough to use their real phone number and names.

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