Received a letter this afternoon..and I happened to have won the following, R10 000 holiday voucher, entered into R100 000 draw and to top it all "have been specifically selected to receive another award" I ask myself how nice? Well after signing the form ready to go to the bank and make a deposit of R129.90 I decide to google the company..he he he guess what??It's a scam..so many comments about the same thing?? To all those souls who took their time to post their comments thank you, You have saved me money and time as well. To the scammers though luck maybe next time. To the Magazine, I really don't know what to say because I was this thing on the Magazine and decided to enter...

in september they send me a travelling voucher worth R10, 000.00 telling me and my husband that we have won, what followed was a letter stating that we have won R115, 000.00 but before we can claim our prize money we have to deposit a ceratin amount of money.I tried calling them on several occasion but no one answered the phone and i decided to do my little reseach thats when i found all this atrories of people who have been scammed out of their monies.These people work together with travel clips and they have a Nedbank account. I would like to warn my fellow South african that they shouldnt take a second look at anything that comes from IMS they should just throw it in the bin, its a huge scam.The scratch cards are usually placed inside our mails, mostly if you receive a magizene from any retail store. Becareful dont give money to claim anything check it out first amd make sure that it is genuine.

Fake competition prize

We have received numerous letters from IMS informing us that we have won amounts of money and that we have to just pay a nominal fee for handling or administration purposes. First it was R50 000 (even requested a foto), then R20 000 (again a foto), then a Panasonic 42" Plasma Screen Colour TV. Well to say the least, we replied every time with the required money (postal Orders), even ordered some of the goods, but to date have not received anything except a fake pendant (made in China) Everytime the fee required is no less than R190.
We called this morning to find out what happened to the TV as it was supposed to be delivered om Friday 11 Dec 2009. The person that picked up told us that we had to be o n a list of 25 winners. When we asked how we get this list, we were told that they do not have a list, but you would know that you were a winner if you received the tv.
When we asked to speak to somebody in charge, we were told that there is nobody available. When we told her that we want to complain, we were told to do as we wish. With all the money paid to them already, we have nothing to show but the little fake pendants.

This company has now tried to scam me twice - but with no luck! After receiving their first scam letter telling me that I won a quarter of a million rand but needed to send R215 in order to redeem it, I decided to call their call centre as an "unsuspecting customer" trying to redeem the funds that I won. The con artist who answered had no clue what he was talking about and when I asked him how he got my details and how I had won this competition he could not provide me with a straight answer. I eventually told him that he was a liar, a cheat and a fraud and told him to lose my particulars. It is now two months later - and I have miraculously won another R100 000.00 from them!!! This time, they have replaced the telephone number with a fax number and all I have to do is send R212.90 to them in order to get this paid out to me.

I wish these criminals could be tracked so that they can get what they deserve!