Winner of 4.5 million dollars, a Mercedes-Benz, 5,000 a month for life.
Complaint
Patricia H.
Country: United States
Mr. James Carter, executive manager of the MegaMillions Company (Corporation), called Friday, 11/26/2021, from 876-867-9411 (a Jamaican partial area code number of 876). The caller ID said, Jim Kingston. He told me that I had won $2.5 million and a bonus prize of $5,000 dollars a month for life and, I almost forgot to say, and a new Mercedes-Benz “car”. My prizes were going to be delivered to my house at 3:30 pm on 12/03/2021. He wanted to make sure I was going to be home to accept my exciting prize. He couldn't wait to see my happy expression when they get here. I expressed my doubt and asked him how he got my name for this so-called lottery. He said someone had sent them a raffle ticket with my name and information on it… He wasn’t bothered with my doubt, and he kept calling despite my impatience and hanging up on him throughout the following week. He had an “official” management officer, John (can’t remember his last name), call me as well. They continued to call every day thereafter.
On 12/01/2021 he kept calling several times that day into the evening, and then he got around to further instructions to receive the check. ... But, first, he had great news, instead of 2.5 million they added 2 million, and they are now talking about 4.5 million. "Does that make you happier now?" he asked. [Wow! I can’t tell you how that affected my heart beat]. Now, the delivery team would be here at about 4:30 with my prizes. Now here comes the catch: he explained that all I had to do was to go to WalMart, Walgreens or CVS and acquire a $399 MoneyPack card (this is a reloadable card, by the way) and call him and give him the 14-digit number on the back of the card after I had done so. He, detecting my distrust, said this is only for the security of the officials and State Troopers who will show up, bring my prizes and to escort me to my bank to deposit my exciting check.
By this time, I was playing along to feed his obvious anguish. He wanted me to take my cell phone with me and call him as soon as I got the card and read the numbers to him. He was "trusting" me to do as I was told and to keep this completely confidential. I told him I did not have a cell phone, and he said to call him as soon as I got back home from getting the card. I did not call him back, nor did I go get the card. He called back at around 6:00pm and I told him that I wasn’t going to do it. He started calling me a couple of times every day reminding me that he and his manager and the delivery team plus the state troopers would be there on Friday to give me my check and prizes. I finally just got angry with him one morning and told him I was no longer going to play this fraud game or respond to this farce. If he still wants to bring my prizes, he was welcome to do so. I forgot to mention that “they” sent me several pieces of paperwork in an attempt to make everything look real. A letter of congratulations from Joe Biden, a letter from MegaMillions letting me know of the amount, a copy of a check for 4.5 million dollars, a picture of a Mercedes, a letter from the IRS and one from the executive director of the MegaMillions Corporation. I read over all the paperwork and visualized how fake and illegal all of the information was. Sending it all to the FTC. I am not sure whether to be happy about being a winner or sad, wondering if they really thought I was so stupid I would fall for it.
On 12/01/2021 he kept calling several times that day into the evening, and then he got around to further instructions to receive the check. ... But, first, he had great news, instead of 2.5 million they added 2 million, and they are now talking about 4.5 million. "Does that make you happier now?" he asked. [Wow! I can’t tell you how that affected my heart beat]. Now, the delivery team would be here at about 4:30 with my prizes. Now here comes the catch: he explained that all I had to do was to go to WalMart, Walgreens or CVS and acquire a $399 MoneyPack card (this is a reloadable card, by the way) and call him and give him the 14-digit number on the back of the card after I had done so. He, detecting my distrust, said this is only for the security of the officials and State Troopers who will show up, bring my prizes and to escort me to my bank to deposit my exciting check.
By this time, I was playing along to feed his obvious anguish. He wanted me to take my cell phone with me and call him as soon as I got the card and read the numbers to him. He was "trusting" me to do as I was told and to keep this completely confidential. I told him I did not have a cell phone, and he said to call him as soon as I got back home from getting the card. I did not call him back, nor did I go get the card. He called back at around 6:00pm and I told him that I wasn’t going to do it. He started calling me a couple of times every day reminding me that he and his manager and the delivery team plus the state troopers would be there on Friday to give me my check and prizes. I finally just got angry with him one morning and told him I was no longer going to play this fraud game or respond to this farce. If he still wants to bring my prizes, he was welcome to do so. I forgot to mention that “they” sent me several pieces of paperwork in an attempt to make everything look real. A letter of congratulations from Joe Biden, a letter from MegaMillions letting me know of the amount, a copy of a check for 4.5 million dollars, a picture of a Mercedes, a letter from the IRS and one from the executive director of the MegaMillions Corporation. I read over all the paperwork and visualized how fake and illegal all of the information was. Sending it all to the FTC. I am not sure whether to be happy about being a winner or sad, wondering if they really thought I was so stupid I would fall for it.
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