Don’t fall for these known mail scams

Fraudulent checks have been mailed to several residents.

By Jeff Wiehe

jwiehe@news-sentinel.com

They say nothing in life is free – especially money.

Fort Wayne Police have received numerous reports of scams in the last month where people are sent checks in the mail with letters claiming they’ve won money through a complicated series of events. The victims are asked to deposit the checks and contact the law firm listed to send it money. Those who do are told later the checks are bogus.

“Don’t fall for any of them,” Fort Wayne Police spokesman Michael Joyner said.

According to Joyner, the following is just a small selection of the scams police know are out there:

♦ According to published reports, a letter from the Law Office of Debrovsky & White has turned up recently in Goshen as well as Rockton, Ill. This past week, a Fort Wayne woman got it in the mail.

It says court evidence shows the receiver may have been a victim of a fraud and is part of a class-action lawsuit. It’s prohibited to disclose the name of the corporation involved in this fraud, the letter states, but that corporation reached an out of court settlement on the lawsuit and the receiver is to get $129,000. The writers of the letter added a court case number, a semi-professional letterhead and stamped “URGENT” in the corner to make it look legitimate.

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