Robert Goldberg scam
Complaint
Kent
Country: United States
Just received a call from a Mr. Danny Lopez telling me I have just won "Second Prize of $750,000." in a sweepstakes (I had not entered). Winners were "randomly selected from the hundreds of thousands of folks who use their Visa, Mastercards, Amer Xpress, or Discover credit cards to pay for gasoline and/or groceries." I was given a claim number & supposed to call a Mr. Robert Goldberg (of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Wash D.C.) who would then "activate" my file. I called him, no answer, so left him a message. he called me back about 2 hours later, told me I had to get 2 $940 money orders, mail them to a Mr. Robert Garcia in Albuquerque, N Mex. to pay the Shipping & Handling Retainer Deposit fees due on the $750,000 Certified Check. Then Mr. Garcia would call Mr Goldberg, tell him he had received the money orders, & Mr. Goldberg would then release the certified check to be delivered to me via UPS. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? DOES HE REALLY THINK I'M THAT STUPID?? In the first place, Mr Lopez & Mr Goldberg were obviously calling from the same office (background noise) & sounded very much like the same man even though Mr. Goldberg had a 202 area code call back number & Mr Lopez had a 702 area code (Which I believe is Albuquerque, where I was supposed to send the $1840 S&H Retainer Deposit fee .). Upon receipt of the $1840 "fee", Mr. Goldberg would then "release" the $750,000 certified check, to be delivered by 2 "special agents" to my doorstep (Guess they forgot about the UPS "expedited delivery".), who would then accompany me to my bank to oversee the deposit & make sure I filled out the Fed tax Form 1099 & mailed it. SCAM! SCAM!! SCAM!!! So beware of any calls from a Mr. Danny Lopez telling you that you have just won 2nd prize in this (type of) Sweepstakes and that you need to call Mr. Goldberg ASAP to get your money. It ain't legit!!!
Comments
And the number the told me to call was 1866978634