July 16, 2025 2:08 pm
Caller claimed to be a David Carter from "American Credit Management - ACM", a scout for the sweepstakes firm (ACM is a debt collection agency). We won 2nd prize in a sweepstakes from www.sweepsadvantage.ORG (domain nonexistent) and they'd desperately been trying to reach me for a month via mail and call. www.sweepsadvantage.COM is legit but they're 3rd party and don't act as an intermediary ever.
They gave me an attorney name and number, bar number and www.floridabar.com to verify. Attorney Mary Bembry 305-686-0010 (not her number, per my verification) and Mary had this to say.
Wire transfer or snail mail certified check, they asked?
Me: Wire please.
Mary: Bank info please?
Me: Never mind, check please.
Mary: Insistent for a bit and then relents, but with a caveat. Since your prize has been sitting in the "Unclaims Department" for so long, it may have been handed to the next in line.
Mary: We will get back to you.
I'm currently trying to get in direct contact with Mary. Maybe she'll get on-board, and I'll have a real lawyer fighting against the very individuals impersonating her.