Legitimate sweepstakes don't require that the winner pay for
registration and insurance. They have that budgeted in to the prize.
Anyone who asks for money up front is looking for win but you won't be
the winner.
On 12/18/2017 7:51 PM, John wrote:
Second try - first time hit one of Earthlink's modems that's on the
PDML blacklist.
I got a call today to tell me I won $2.8 million in the Publisher's
Clearing House Sweepstakes (which I haven't even received junk mail
from for years & years, much less entered). I only need to pay $950
for "registration & insurance" in order to collect my prize.
Only problem is that when I told him I'd have to go to the bank to see
if I have the $950 for "registration & insurance" in my account the
call mysteriously "dropped".
He called back once, but didn't get further than "I'm sorry, the call
..." before it "dropped" again.
Do you think this might be a SCAM?
That's a rhetorical question BTW. If he thinks I'm going to give him
money or banking information, he's stupider than he obviously thinks I
am.
But it was entertaining for a few minutes.
UPDATE: These guys got pretty frantic trying to get back in touch with
me. I let them accumulate about a dozen "missed calls" before picking
up again. I told them I was having problems with my cell phone and
suggested they call me back on my "land line".
Gave them the telephone number for the Charlotte, NC FBI office.
They even called me back once again to verify they had copied the
number for my land line correctly. Gave them the FBI's number again
and made sure I enunciated clearly. 8D
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