Consumer Alert Sweepstakes Scam

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It's the ultimate bait, a letter claiming you've already won a multi-million dollar foreign lottery sweepstakes. All you have to is send money for the taxes and fees and then you can collect your prize. While the claims are a scam, more and more elderly Americans are paying the price every year. One victim was a repeated target for lottery sweepstakes callers and sent thousands of dollars in cash in express mail packages for prizes she never received. Her family was forced to take their own mother to court to gain control of her finances before she lost everything. • _______________ • Follow WLOS on social media: • WLOS ABC 13 News on Facebook: / news13 • WLOS ABC 13 News on Twitter: / wlos_13 • WLOS ABC 13 News on Instagram: / wlos_13 • Subscribe to WLOS on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ABC13Cha... • Listen to AnchorMOMS, the Podcast: • https://wlos.com/news/anchormoms/anch... • Watch more top local news stories: • Western Loses At ETSU, Highlights and... • For all of the day’s top local and national news, visit http://www.wlos.com • Watch our live newscasts and other live video at https://wlos.com/watch • Have a news tip? Send it directly to us: • Email us: [email protected] • Call the Newsroom: 828.684.1340 • • WLOS ABC 13 News serves the Asheville, NC area and the rest of western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. We keep our audience informed through local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of community events, sports and entertainment programming since 1954.

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