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On June 12, 2018 in the United States District Court, District of Montana, Thomas Ressler and the United States of American entered into a Judgment in a Criminal Case. Thomas Ressler was sentenced to serve 36 months in prison for designing dozens of fraudulent solicitations used in an international mail-fraud scheme.
On February 22, 2018, Ressler pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. It is alleged, Ressler created more than 200 fraudulent sweepstakes and prize-notification letters that falsely informed recipients they could claim cash or other valuable prizes by submitting a processing or delivery fee. The letters appeared to come from official-sounding but fictitious entities with names like Cash Payout Disbursement Advisors, Progressive Winners Guarantors, and Vehicle Transport Company. Many of the letters included the name and signature of a purported officer or representative of the fictitious entity.
Ressler’s co-conspirators, Ryan Young and Ercan Barka, used the solicitations Ressler created to perpetrate their large-scale scheme, sending Ressler’s designed solicitations to victims throughout the United States and numerous foreign countries. Although the solicitations appeared personally directed to each recipient, Barka and Young actually sent them to thousands of recipients identified on mailing lists bought from list brokers and corporate entities. No victim who submitted a fee in response to a solicitation ever received the large cash prize or other valuable items touted in the solicitations. At most, some victims received a report listing unrelated sweepstakes or a worthless piece of jewelry. Ercan Barka and Ryan Young previously pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of New York to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. They are awaiting sentencing.
For more information, please contact the United States Department of Justice Consumer Branch at http://www.justice.gov/civil/consumer-protection-branch or 202-514-2000.
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- Location of This Business
- Whitehall, MT 59759-9618
- BBB File Opened:
- 7/12/2018
- Years in Business:
- 15
- Business Started:
- 8/1/2009
- Type of Entity:
- Sole Proprietorship
- Business Management
- Mr. Thomas Ressler, Owner
- Contact Information
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- Mr. Thomas Ressler, Owner
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- Mr. Thomas Ressler, Owner
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