[O.C White]

G.A & P TEA Company Inc., and Subsidiaries?

Reason I am asking I am trying to find out how legit they are. I got something the other day in the mail from them rather interesting.

 

[_twisted_]

yes A & P markets, their corp offices are in North Jersey

http://www.secinfo.com/$/SEC/Registrant.asp?CIK=43300

 

[O.C White]

Are they known to send rather large amounts of cash out to people who bought houses?

 

[_twisted_]

not aware of that practice.
Are you an heir?

 

[junior]

Are they known to send rather large amounts of cash out to people who bought houses?

sorry that was supposed to be sent to me I will pm you my addy:-D

 

[O.C White]

sorry that was supposed to be sent to me I will pm you my addy:-D

LOL :-D No this will be pm'd to my bank if it's legit.

 

[_twisted_]

here is a run down of their subsidiaries

http://www.secinfo.com/d1awwf.s54.c.htm

 

[O.C White]

not aware of that practice.
Are you an heir?

No. I just had me a house built last year, and unfortunately the wife threw away the letter that came with it, but I kept the check in a safe place........................away from her.

 

[OHD is a putz]

Nobody legit sends anybody large sums of money

 

[_twisted_]

lol ask your neighbors if they received them - maybe a & p is buying your houses to put up a market

 

[O.C White]

I am going to see if I can find a phone number on them and call them and ask what's up.

I'll keep you all posted.

 

[badwej]

That is A&P food stores here in Canada they changed there name to Metro

 

[Mista Bone]

Same scam. Our check has a company name of G.A & P Tea Company, Inc. and Subsidiaries in Montvale, New Jersey. Surprisingly, this is an actual company and the correct address. The bank on the check, BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, in Newark Delaware, is also correct and the ABA on the check matches that bank's ABA number. It seems that they are trying to get you to Moneygram (which requires cash) them the tax payment prior to the check bouncing. You would then be stuck with the overdrafted account. I don't think they care about your bank account information, but I could be wrong. I am going to have my bank call to verify the account and availability of funds later today.

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[COOK E]

here is a run down of their subsidiaries

http://www.secinfo.com/d1awwf.s54.c.htm

Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co...? sounds like the name of the local Chinese trinket store that used to be in the mall?

 

[O.C White]

whoa, someone has gotten the same thing I have got.

Same scam. Our check has a company name of G.A & P Tea Company, Inc. and Subsidiaries in Montvale, New Jersey. Surprisingly, this is an actual company and the correct address. The bank on the check, BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, in Newark Delaware, is also correct and the ABA on the check matches that bank's ABA number. It seems that they are trying to get you to Moneygram (which requires cash) them the tax payment prior to the check bouncing. You would then be stuck with the overdrafted account. I don't think they care about your bank account information, but I could be wrong. I am going to have my bank call to verify the account and availability of funds later today.

 

[Mista Bone]

I am going to see if I can find a phone number on them and call them and ask what's up.

I'll keep you all posted.

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I got one of these also. Looked up the name of the company on the check, they are a valid company. I contacted their corporate headquarters and verified THIS IS A SCAM!! If you get one of these, they are trying to track down the source and the more info we can get them the better. The number to them is 866-443-7374, option 2, then 2 again. They are asking that a copy of the letter/check be faxed to them at 201-571-8899. This goes direct to Corp HQ.

 

[JeepJeep]

Our company sells golf course equipment and chemicals, seed, etc. Some jerk sent out letters with our name and address and told recipients that they had won a lottery we were sponsoring. Really - a golf business sponsoring a lottery? You know the old here's a check, cash it and wire x amount to us for our lottery expenses and you keep the difference? Must have sent out thousands based on the number of checks that tried to clear our bank - even got the check number sequence fairly close. Twice this happened. First time, we just closed the account and opened a new one. The second time we closed the account and set up a positive pay account where I upload all the checks we write to the bank and have to on-line approve any difference.

We even had one woman call us, really pissed off because "we" had notified her son he had won and he was at the bank trying to cash the check and the bank was telling him it was a scam. She kept saying, you told him he won and my son needs that money.

Same thing here. What is the liklihood that a grocery store chain would be sending money out?

 

[HPDRIFTER]

Don't they run the Nigerian lottery, too?

 

[JUICED96Z]

I knew a guy that got checks out of the blue for a few days, some up to like 20k...... took it to the bank and asked them to verify it and they ran it (did not cash it or deposit it) and they said it was a fake and a scam..... one of those things were you cash it and then later find out it is fake and you are out the money but then they can trace it back and get your bank information or something like that.

 

[Firetruck1]

Dammit, and you thought you were rich!!! Oh well, back to work with the rest of us stiffs.