Brian had me send the insurance monies to a Susan Taylor at the FTC (202-929-9572) and that the FTC could take care of obtaining the insurance through Lloyda of london.

I was instrucetd to send the money by Money Gram or Western Union to a person in Costa Rica. I asked "WHY" Costa Rica and I was informed that was because that was where the Lloyds of london office is that would be handling my insurance claim if for some reason ANY reason the sweepstakes money was not delivered to me.

As time went buy various "delays" took place and the sweepstakes couriers never did make it to my house.

Things such as their GPS went "bad" and so they got lost - they got held up in the Albuquerque airport customs and even they were kidnapped by Jamacians and taken to Jamacia and held hostage!

I finally just "gave up" considering this was all just a scam and that all the money that I had sent was just lost.

Then, Brian called me on the internet messenger and told me that he was extreemly sorry - that everything that he had told me was a lie and that he was a scammer and a fraud - but that I HAD really won a sweepstakes and that a Mr. Kevin Lyttle with the "real" Lloyds of London could actually help me obtain my winnings for real!

SO Brian AKA Eric Droop contacted Mr. Kevin Lyttle and had him call me.

Instead of Mr. Lyttle calling though - a Mr. Maurico Fernand called and said that he worked for Mr. Lyttle and that they needed a report of all the monies that Brian Goldfarb (AKA Eric Droop) had me send to Costa Rica for Lloyds of London. I told Maurico that it would take me some time to gather all this information together and for him to call me back in 30 minutes.

In about 20 minutes my phone rang and a Man with a British accent said that he was Mr. Kevin Lyttle calling for the information about what all I had sent to Costa Rica for Lloyds of London.

I told him that his man Maurico Fernand had just called and asked for the same information and that I was in the process of gathering it together right then.

Mr. Lyttle said that he knew of nobody named Maurico Fernand but that he did need the information concerning the amount of money that I had sent - so I proceeded to read Mr. Lyttle the amounts that I had found receipts for over the phone to him.

Later he informad me that I was $575 short of the required amount to process the sweepstakes claim. ???

He explained to me that what I would need to do was to send Lloyds of London the $575 - and then I would have to hire a lawyer and that I needed to set up an offshore account in Costa Rica or some other off shore country and it would be best for me to take a plane and fly there and be there to do the off shore account myself.

I explained to him that I had been scammed out of all this money by Brian (AKA Eric Droop) and so I did NOT have any money to fly anywhere!

I also explained to Mr. Lyttle that this sounded like a scam to try and bypass the IRS or something and THAT I would NOT do!!!

After a few "heated" words from Mr. Lyttle - I called him a liar and a cheat and a swindler and a scammer and I hung up on him!!!

The amount of the so called "sweepstakes" winnings that I may have thrown away was $450,000.00 - but somehow I do not believe I have actually lost anything.

I have retained my self respect though! :-)