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Lottery and Sweepstakes Scam

The document discusses two types of scams: lottery and sweepstakes scams that target the elderly and financially vulnerable individuals, and employment scams that lure people with fake job offers. Scammers often use phone calls, emails, and online ads to solicit money or personal information, leading to financial loss. To avoid these scams, individuals are advised to ignore unsolicited communications and verify the legitimacy of job offers before providing any personal information or payment.

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Lottery and Sweepstakes Scam

The document discusses two types of scams: lottery and sweepstakes scams that target the elderly and financially vulnerable individuals, and employment scams that lure people with fake job offers. Scammers often use phone calls, emails, and online ads to solicit money or personal information, leading to financial loss. To avoid these scams, individuals are advised to ignore unsolicited communications and verify the legitimacy of job offers before providing any personal information or payment.

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Lottery and sweepstakes scam

- The target of this type of scam is almost always elderly people or people with financial problems.
Phone calls are still among the most common tools used by scammers. People may receive a call
from someone claiming to represent a lottery or sweepstakes. They will demand a quickly
transfer or that people send them money, purchase gift cards or go to a Bitcoin ATM to send
them a fee to release the winnings. Another method is that they send emails or messages
announcing that you won the lottery. Usually, the email will impersonate a government agency,
well-known company, or sweepstakes agency.
- The truth is, I don't know if this type of scam happens a lot in the country and I don't know
anyone who has gone through it, but sometimes I have seen ads that say that you have won an
iPhone and things like that. I have never tried to enter, since I have always been afraid that it was
this type of scam.
- I think the best solution to avoid this type of scam is to ignore those calls or messages if you
have not participated in anything to win a prize, in this case the lottery.

Employment scams

- In this type, scammers pretend to be real employers, offering good jobs. Then they ask for
personal information for the purpose of theft. People like jobs from home. Scammers know this,
so they place ads, often online, claiming that they have jobs where you can make thousands of
dollars a month working from home with little time and effort. The job could be anything from
reshipping products to selling things to people you know. But instead of making money, you end
up paying for starter kits, so-called training, or certifications that are useless. You might also find
that your credit card is charged without your permission, or you get caught up in a fake check
scam, where you deposit a check from your new employer, the employer then asks you to send
some money back due to “overpayment,” but the check will ultimately bounce, and the bank will
want you to repay the full amount of the fake check, while the scammers keep the real money
you sent them.
- This type of scam happens a lot in the country. Many people have told me that they often
receive these types of messages, offering work. About a month ago they sent me a message like
this on WhatsApp, at first, I was surprised and the truth is that it made me want to accept the
offer. But I hesitated and quickly wrote to a friend telling him what had happened and he told
me that I should not answer him and block the number. I listened to him and mentioned this to
my mom. She told me that they often send her messages like this, offering employment, I
advised her not to answer, that it is very likely that it was a scam.
- To avoid this type of scam you can:
1. Search online the company or the person who’s hiring you, see if others say they’ve been
scammed by that company or person.
2. Don't pay for the promise of a job. Honest employers, including the federal government, will
never ask you to pay to get a job. Anyone who does is a scammer.

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