“You have therefore been approved for a lump some payment of $450,890 — Congratulations.” That letter, with a handwritten address on the envelope, had a Dandridge, Tennessee woman celebrating. “I started reading it, was real excited, thought I’d really won,” the only condition for Bonnie Myers to be the big winner: cash the cashier’s check sent to her and send that money back to this so-called lottery corporation in Canada.
“They wanted me to get the $4,480 and wire it,” explains Bonnie, “within 48 hours, they would have a FedEx truck deliver me $450,000 dollars.”
Fortunately for Bonnie, she tried depositing the check first. Her bank told her it was not legit. “I would’ve been out $4,000, would’ve had to pay it back.”