Today is June 4th, 2012 and I received a letter from CUSTOMER COMPENSATION LOTTERY at 500 Washington Avenue, New York, NY 11220 telephone number 1-647-818-8178 dated 05/25. I claimed that I won a prize of 50, 000 in their lottery and presented me a check for 3,750.00. The check is so real looking with a water mark and all. It was drawn against an account called MID-STATE SUPPLY a division of Yellow Thunder Corp at PO Box 510 Wautoma, Wisconsin. I looked up and called the company and they advised me that it was a scam! I looked at the check closer and these dumb-asses spelled the name of the bank wrong. There is a bank in Chicago, Ill called Cole-Taylor Bank. But they spelled it Cole Tayloy Bank. I can not say they are stupid, cause I am sure that they are getting away with this on other people. I myself was real excited about the fact I had won. But the thing is.....if it is too good to be true, then it is most likely not true. These punk ass bitches can not get a real job, but take the money of honest working folk. Why can't they be caught? Who know why they aren't, but just watch out for these people. They are attacking us and attempting to take our hard earn money. May they burn in hell some day

I just received same check and letter yesterday on3/26/2012 in South Carolina, so they are still up to the scam. The letter said the check was from a Company called Customer Compensation Lottery, 500 Clinton Avenue, Bronx, NY 10455 but it was mailed from Canada and the letter was signed by Denton Morgan. the check was drawn on a real Bank called Amegy Bank out of Porter Texas. The bank will not tell you if the check is any good. Personally I think its one of the meanest things you could do people in such a hurting economy. It gets peoples hopes up but then they slowly come to their senses and realize "something is not adding up."

The elderly however may not figure it out so fast and that is sad. The check looks so real too. I took the check to my bank and they told me it was a scam and then I took it to a Kmart store manager because the story was, this was a lottery that Kmart, Sears, Lowes, Best Buy, Home Depo, JC Penny and so forth were doing and that out of 100, 000 people 20 people had won, 50, 500.00.

He looked at it and said they were "not" participating in any kind of lottery but also said that he had never seen one look so real before. He told me to take to the local newspaper. Seems likes these America businesses would have some legal recourse for them using their names or even implying their names in such an unethical scam.

Furthermore I agree with one of the posts I read on here ...I would like to know "why" and "how" are our American mailing addresses are getting into the hands of these foreign scamming parasites? But of course with technology it may easier than we realize. I think they are trying to target older people. I am 47 and just got my first pamphlet from the scooter store. Which I think is a little early. And I got my first letter from AARP, and now this scam! Just makes me wonder if they aren't somehow hacking into the websites or files of Businesses who target older people and somehow getting peoples addresses that way.

Furthermore, if they are crazy and mean enough to send this kind of stuff...what's next? I think we need to be very cautions in opening any mail anymore, especially from people or business we do not recognize.

I've also been scammed by this C.C.L. bull crap. I to would like to know why they or how they got my maling address in name. Funny thing is I do remember going to walmart and filling out a slip for some drawing so I thought it was legit. Now to find out the name of the agen JERRY MONGOLY 1-647-818-7784 was lying the whole time good thing for me I recorded the calls at the time of speaking with this man, . I am a single mother, full time student and a hard worker. My bank has closed all my accounts with them. I am very pist off and don't know what to do no .. It is ashame and embarassing that Im going through this headache.