Alliance Trust, Inc. Complaint

You've won a grant for your home improvements

- Missouri - Po Box 21405 Chicago, IL, 60618
I received a letter stating that I have won a home improvement grant of 38,000.00. Inclosed is a check for 4,910.05, just deposit the check and with draw out 3100.00 and send to your Legal Agent Laura woodrow at 520 Union St. Brooklyn New York. The $3100,00 is out of the first check of 4,910.05 and you get to keep the other 1800.00 and will will send by Fed X a check for 34,900.00 as a final cash settlement of your grant of 38,000.00. This is brought to you by IBM, Sears, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, Gap, Best Buy, Western Union, Wendy's, Office Depot, Microsoft,Starbucks coffee,Home Depot, and MoneyGram International. When I deposited the first check after nine days it came back with insuffiecnt funds, I did not send the 3100.00 by money gram beings I did not have that kind of money. But I did use some of the money (1800.00) for things I needed, Now I am in a bind with the bank for the checks I wrote out from the 1800.00. I was told at the bank the funds would be available on Saterday, so I took their word for it and went to get school supplies for my children and supplies for by twins that I'll be having on September 6 2007. This check was for the processing fee and legal fees in order to receive the remaining grant of 34,000.00. I called Mr Eric VanHorne and spoke with him today (Sept. 4, 2007) to let him know that the check came back and was not available for use. Now they took the check out of an account and put me at a negitive balance. This company needs to be stopped! They have caused a lot of damage. When I spoke to Eric he stated that they would send a cashiers check to me for the amount of the first check which was 4,910.15 and I should receive it by the end of this week, well this is September 4, 2007.

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    Reader Comments:

    Posted by babydee206 on 09/13/2007
    Thank you so much for letting people know about this. I just got the same letter when i tried to call the phone # listed i finally reased tony at 9:30 at night he told me to call back the next morning but he assured me that this was not a scam upon trying to call the bank i decided to look the bank up on line and noticed that the phone # didn't match so i called the one on line and spoke to the fraud department and was told that this was definatly a fraud. I am turning this over to my local news so that they can do a story on this to worn other people so the same thing that happened to you won't happen to them. I am also going to pass this on to the FBI so they can check into this and shut this company down. Once again thank you so much sincerly Ms McCormack

    Posted by sylviadd2 on 09/13/2007
    HI, THIS SITUATION HAPPEN TO ME ALSO, I AM STILL WAITING FOR A REPLY FROM MR ERIC VANHORNE, HE IS WAITING ON THE CLAIMS DEPT TO HANDLE IT. MY BANK IS GOING TO INVESTIGATE THIS AND THE PAPERWORK I WAS SENT. IF THIS IS A SCAM PEOPLE NEED TO BE AWARE OF THINGS HAPPENING EVERYWHERE.

    Posted by venuslock35 on 09/23/2007
    this is called an advanced fee fraud. Check it out online search "419 scams" or "advance fee fraud" you'll see what I mean. There is a way to back your money. Reasearch this and find out for yourself. Good luck to you my friend.


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