Robert Goldberg scam

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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!!!

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    David Newell
    I could state my story,   but it is identical in all major ways.  However, the initial contact guy, a Mfr. Ortiz, fraudulently identified himself as a Government auditor with the FTC,  in charge of assuring distributions from "Sweepstakes".
    It clearly states on the FTC website that they are not involved in this oversight capacity.

    The wonderment to me is why it is that these relatively sophisticated and high overhead scams are not shut down.  The fact that the (at least )4 or 5 personnel  are remunerated by proceeds sufficient to keep going for a couple or few years means that there is a lot of money collected from "winners".

    Hell, maybe 60 Minutes would be interested.

    If you look at the  American Sweepstakes website, carefully, you can register some egregious spelling and sentence structure flaws.   If you call their phone number  listed for "complaints", you will find it not in service.

    Probably,  the background owner is a certain Mr. Trump,  or his good buddy, Putin.
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    Dennis Jones
    Thomas Foster called me
    , he is now an officer  for the federal trade commission and I also won $750,000.00
    My winning check had been intersepted , he asked permission to open it and what to do with it and I said tear it up !
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    Russell Hannon
    We just got a call from Michael Cortez saying to call National Sweepstakes and Promotions at 866-373-4406. It was the same scam. Send them money and they'll release the $1,200,000 prize money. They said that they were supposed to receive a percentage of the check before they could release it. Don't fall for this!
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    leatrice
    I got a phone call from a david Goldburg saying I won $17 million dollars.The phone number was 191 780 93872. he said he was an Attorney with American Sweepstackers,He said I have to send $500 dollars for insurance to get the money.When he said that I new that it was a scam.Everyone should be careful.They are calling senior people to get money,It is a scam.
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    Phyllis Jackson
    is there a David Myers with a Austrialian accent that calls about prices from your network  it seems quite an elaborate scheme to do for 100 bucks
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    Reed
    I just got a call from the FTC a man by the name of Tony Evens saying I won $750000 but first I had to call American Sweetcape and gave me a number. Called it and I was told I won a I would have to pay 1% of the winnings foe insurance. Then he told me to call Tony Evens back. Not happening. Scamm. I got on American  Sweetstakes and put the clame number I was given and it came back I was not a winner. Always resurch before doing anything like giving money out.
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