International Security Management Association Reviews
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Nov 19, 2014
First, I want to emphasis that I did not fall for this sweepstakes scam, but I know some who have. So I want to post this report in hopes of showing how and why International Securities Management (I.S.M) is a scam. I received a "Confirmation Form" and letter from International Securities Management today, November 18, 2014, stating that I won $4,320,000.00. On the bottom of the letter is a replica of a check for $23,762.00. Well, that must be miraculous since I haven't entered any sweepstakes or contests. I don't even play the lottery. Automatically, this raised a red flag.
Now, for the logical breakdown on why and how this is a scam. The 1st reason should be very obvious. The supposed winning sums are for two different amounts. The 2nd reason: in the letter it states, "Please fill out the payment confirmation form on the next page. Again, money has definitely been awarded to you. When we receive your confirmation, your money will be sent to your approved address." On the Confirmation Form, it states that we must enclose a $20 Confirmation data fee before we can receive our "winnings". This also apparently confirms our identity. Let's pause here for a moment, so I can state the obvious. Regardless of what title they want to label the "fee", no one has to ever send in money to receive something they've won. There are a few sweepstakes out there that are legitimate. And none of them ask for any kind of processing/confirmation/premium offer fees in order to distrubte a monetary award. Please, please, please DO NOT fall for this. There is no what if of missing out, because it's not real. They take your money and then try to milk you for more. It would be like buying a lottery ticket, winning any amount, and then being told in order to cash it in you have to pay an additional service fee. But in this case, nothing was purchased. (Nothing ever has to be purchased to enter a real sweepstakes.)
The 3rd, most self-defeating reason this proves to be a scam is that on the back of the letter under "Consumer Information", towards the bottom of the paragraph, it states, "This communication is not a sweepstakes or award notification and does not guarantee that you will win any sweepstakes." Yet, in the letter portion it emphatically states in bold and underlined words that money has definitely been awarded to you. If you flip that letter over and read just that single paragraph (which they put as a disclaimer so you can't cry foul), you'll see that they contradict everything else they say on the precisely detailed and decorated forms. If they're contradicting their own "sweepstakes" and declaration of award by saying it's not one and that it is not an award notification, then how can it possibly be legitimate? Simple: It Can't Be.
Scammers like this know that most people will not read the fine print. They will jump at the chance to win any kind of money, and that they'll reason $20 is a small price to have that chance.
But International Securities Management (I.S.M) and other companies like them are NOT a sweepstakes. They bought your name, and now they're fishing to see if you'll bite. It won't stop at one letter or one processing fee. You'll be putting money into their pockets, for a chance at something that doesn't exist. Because there is no award payout. Ever. You're better off taking your $20 and playing the lottery or putting it to use for a good cause. So please, do your due diligence. Google these companies, listen to your gut, not fear, and when in doubt, throw these scams out. I really hope this helps someone from being scammed.
I am tored of people sending me stuff trying to get me to pay for there ripoffs its now fair especially for people like me that live on a fixed income ,Something needs to be done so they can,t keep ripping people off
This guy named ismael london sent my wife a letter saying she won 1,756,745 dallars out of 8,000 first they said send no money but i did not read it coorect so i sent a money order for 20 dallars then they tried to scam me with magazine offfers i said yes but i was one step ahead i callled back the first person i talked to had an american accent sounded normal i called again it was a man with an accent either india or aarab he tried to get me to send him a 102 dallar money gram and i cussed him out now they keep seding me letters telling me i won did not for that
They said I won $23,762.00 but I have to send them $20.00 I need to send them to prove who I am and for me to receive my confirmed funds! Like an idiot I send them a money order for $20. I wrote them a few days to ask when am I receiving the confirmed winnings.I hope I can get the $20 back. guess I am too trusting,not no more!!!
I got a immediate payment notification in the mail and it is to confirms I have definitely been awarded a check or cash. There is a picture of a check for $23,762.00 but in the letter it says $4,320,000.00. All I need to do it fill out payment confirmation form on the next page.
On the 2nd page confirmation form they want me to send them $20 and sign it agreeing that they have my name right and the correct address. I do not know what they mean by the line (I have inspected the monies/prizes amount as stated here). There is no phone number or email address to contact anyone.
I never heard of them but I have won a prize. I still have this letter I didn't respond to it.
I received notificiation that I had won money and needed to send in a $20 confirmation fee, which I did, because I thought it was real. But when a couple of weeks had gone by and I didn't receive any winnings in the mial, I decided to go online to do a little research about this company and learned that it was a scam. I will contact the company tomorrow for ask for my $20 back.
My 88 year old Dad has been scammed of $135,000 and is now broken due to scams by this agency and others who have sold Dad's information. Mail was the beginning, asking for sums of money to get big bucks. Infinity of San Diego, a religious scam with 300 somewhat #s. He was receiving 33 calls between 8AM-4PM and all hours of the night. These Mail Scams were being hoarded by Dad as far back as 2010.
I just want to know why a contest or sweepstakes would ask a person to send them money in order to win money?
I first noticed that there was two different amounts of winning totals. One for over 4 million dollars and the other one for over 23 million.
This company needs to be caught and put out of business. I am glad that I caught this and companies like this like to pry on us senior citizens who they know doesn't catch things like this.
International Security Management Association Reviews
First, I want to emphasis that I did not fall for this sweepstakes scam, but I know some who have. So I want to post this report in hopes of showing how and why International Securities Management (I.S.M) is a scam. I received a "Confirmation Form" and letter from International Securities Management today, November 18, 2014, stating that I won $4,320,000.00. On the bottom of the letter is a replica of a check for $23,762.00. Well, that must be miraculous since I haven't entered any sweepstakes or contests. I don't even play the lottery. Automatically, this raised a red flag.
Now, for the logical breakdown on why and how this is a scam. The 1st reason should be very obvious. The supposed winning sums are for two different amounts. The 2nd reason: in the letter it states, "Please fill out the payment confirmation form on the next page. Again, money has definitely been awarded to you. When we receive your confirmation, your money will be sent to your approved address." On the Confirmation Form, it states that we must enclose a $20 Confirmation data fee before we can receive our "winnings". This also apparently confirms our identity. Let's pause here for a moment, so I can state the obvious. Regardless of what title they want to label the "fee", no one has to ever send in money to receive something they've won. There are a few sweepstakes out there that are legitimate. And none of them ask for any kind of processing/confirmation/premium offer fees in order to distrubte a monetary award. Please, please, please DO NOT fall for this. There is no what if of missing out, because it's not real. They take your money and then try to milk you for more. It would be like buying a lottery ticket, winning any amount, and then being told in order to cash it in you have to pay an additional service fee. But in this case, nothing was purchased. (Nothing ever has to be purchased to enter a real sweepstakes.)
The 3rd, most self-defeating reason this proves to be a scam is that on the back of the letter under "Consumer Information", towards the bottom of the paragraph, it states, "This communication is not a sweepstakes or award notification and does not guarantee that you will win any sweepstakes." Yet, in the letter portion it emphatically states in bold and underlined words that money has definitely been awarded to you. If you flip that letter over and read just that single paragraph (which they put as a disclaimer so you can't cry foul), you'll see that they contradict everything else they say on the precisely detailed and decorated forms. If they're contradicting their own "sweepstakes" and declaration of award by saying it's not one and that it is not an award notification, then how can it possibly be legitimate? Simple: It Can't Be.
Scammers like this know that most people will not read the fine print. They will jump at the chance to win any kind of money, and that they'll reason $20 is a small price to have that chance.
But International Securities Management (I.S.M) and other companies like them are NOT a sweepstakes. They bought your name, and now they're fishing to see if you'll bite. It won't stop at one letter or one processing fee. You'll be putting money into their pockets, for a chance at something that doesn't exist. Because there is no award payout. Ever. You're better off taking your $20 and playing the lottery or putting it to use for a good cause. So please, do your due diligence. Google these companies, listen to your gut, not fear, and when in doubt, throw these scams out. I really hope this helps someone from being scammed.
I am tored of people sending me stuff trying to get me to pay for there ripoffs its now fair especially for people like me that live on a fixed income ,Something needs to be done so they can,t keep ripping people off
This guy named ismael london sent my wife a letter saying she won 1,756,745 dallars out of 8,000 first they said send no money but i did not read it coorect so i sent a money order for 20 dallars then they tried to scam me with magazine offfers i said yes but i was one step ahead i callled back the first person i talked to had an american accent sounded normal i called again it was a man with an accent either india or aarab he tried to get me to send him a 102 dallar money gram and i cussed him out now they keep seding me letters telling me i won did not for that
people.have died over this
True story::
Good friend of mine woke up one morning to find his wife in the back yard with a self inflicted gun shot to her chest
After all the investigation found out that she gave there life
Savings to people like these.
They told her they were going to arrest her for some bullshit she did not know how to get out of it so she
Took the last money the had sent it to them and shot herself.tragic death
They said I won $23,762.00 but I have to send them $20.00 I need to send them to prove who I am and for me to receive my confirmed funds! Like an idiot I send them a money order for $20. I wrote them a few days to ask when am I receiving the confirmed winnings.I hope I can get the $20 back. guess I am too trusting,not no more!!!
I got a immediate payment notification in the mail and it is to confirms I have definitely been awarded a check or cash. There is a picture of a check for $23,762.00 but in the letter it says $4,320,000.00. All I need to do it fill out payment confirmation form on the next page.
On the 2nd page confirmation form they want me to send them $20 and sign it agreeing that they have my name right and the correct address. I do not know what they mean by the line (I have inspected the monies/prizes amount as stated here). There is no phone number or email address to contact anyone.
I never heard of them but I have won a prize. I still have this letter I didn't respond to it.
I received notificiation that I had won money and needed to send in a $20 confirmation fee, which I did, because I thought it was real. But when a couple of weeks had gone by and I didn't receive any winnings in the mial, I decided to go online to do a little research about this company and learned that it was a scam. I will contact the company tomorrow for ask for my $20 back.
I'm reporting that they scamed me out of 20.00
International Security Management Jim RuthFord
4940 Merrick Rd, PMB 334
Massapequa Park, NY 11762
My 88 year old Dad has been scammed of $135,000 and is now broken due to scams by this agency and others who have sold Dad's information. Mail was the beginning, asking for sums of money to get big bucks. Infinity of San Diego, a religious scam with 300 somewhat #s. He was receiving 33 calls between 8AM-4PM and all hours of the night. These Mail Scams were being hoarded by Dad as far back as 2010.
I just want to know why a contest or sweepstakes would ask a person to send them money in order to win money?
I first noticed that there was two different amounts of winning totals. One for over 4 million dollars and the other one for over 23 million.
This company needs to be caught and put out of business. I am glad that I caught this and companies like this like to pry on us senior citizens who they know doesn't catch things like this.