Promo Direct Ltd

Prizes and Lotteries scam

Promo Direct Ltd and ISS are masters of the postal scam.

Over the years, they have sent out dozens and dozens of letters under different names – all aimed at getting you to pay good money for useless “get rich quick” schemes and methods, and/or dodgy “esoteric products”.

Would you knowingly spend your hard-earned cash on “Professor Gerrico’s Secret Method for Getting Rich”, “protective bracelet and negative vibe destroyer”, or the “Mega-Max” gambling system?

Of course you wouldn’t and Promo Direct know it.

In order to get you to hand over your cash, they send out colourful letters claiming you have been chosen or are a guaranteed winning recipient of tens of thousands of dollars.

Some letters even claim to come from psychics or self-made millionaires.

The only problem is that you haven’t actually won anything yet.

Promo Direct use the scammers favourite competition method: a pre-draw competition. The winners are pre-selected (from a mailing list) prior to the mail-out and need to respond to win the money. Legitimate competitions are not run this way!!!

But you are a “winner” of a discount voucher for some useless “get-rich-quick” method or esoteric product. One letter even offered a discount on a telepathic appointment. We’d hardly call that a prize!!

The fine print clearly states that the letters do not contain a firm offer and are an “advertising” document to promote the sale of a certain product.

One of the keys to identifying a Promo Direct scam (apart from reading the fine print) is the connection to ISS or Intermail System Services.

The letters request that payment be made to ISS and that is the name on the return address envelope. The current return addresses are in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

Another way to identify a Promo Direct scam is by their ludicrous titles. Have a look at these following names:

Centre of Administrative Processing for the Awarding of Gains
Organisation for the Worldwide Distribution of Gains
Society for the Organisation of Funds Transfer (S.O.F.T.)
Professor Robert Stanford – Financial Distribution Centre
Federation of Super Finalists
Gladys Holle
International Fund For Cash Gains
World Agency For Big Winnings
International Committee for Financial Payments
Funding for the Awarding of Large Value Gains
World Record Speed Wins
Professor Marc Stanley Brahms
C.G.P.J.
Club of Recognised Financial Success
Transaction Agreement for the Executory Commission for the Remittance of Funds
Prize Distribution Office
Concept for the Federation of Super Finalists
Direct Finances Joint Committee
International Agency Of Great Gains
World Agency For Big Winnings
Amy Palmer
Direct Finances Joint Committee
Independent Fund for the Distribution of Unclaimed Wins
Commission for the Distribution Of Prizes
Private Club of Anonymous Millionaires
Independent Bureau for Direct Payments
International Fund for Cash Gains
Association of Specialist Rentiers
Worldwide Centre of Mathematical Research
International Selection of Gains to be Distributed
Official Notices of Receipt of Winnings
International Centre for Financial Leaders

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Scams of a similar type include:

• AAG Winnings Administration Association
• Act of God Awards

For more scams of this type and others, visit the full list of scams by type page.