Just got a call from a guy with an accent and a dog barking in the background claiming to be with 649 Lottery affiliated with Publishers’ Clearing House and Reader’s Digest telling me that I won $9.9 million — and a Mercedes car. Gave me a claim number and a choice. Pay them and they would deliver the car and prize or pick it up in Toronto. When I opted to pick it up in Toronto, the caller hung up! Guess that was the wrong answer! Since I have not bought a 649 ticket for a long time and even longer since I even received Publisher’s Clearing House and Reader’s Digest offers — are they even still operating? — and since one never has one’s phone number or address on nonexistent tickets .... What a stupid scam. Hope there are not people that actually fall for these!
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Back before identifying phone numbers became costly online, I had two websites I could jump to: one would give me the coordinates of a number and the other take the coordinates and give me an address. I used to offer / threaten to visit and say their address. They would hang up and never call back, especially women.
Beowulfsfriend
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Feb 20, 2019
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I had a similar call last week, but without the barking dog. I kept talking to see where it was going, and when he told me I had to make a payment to cover the insurance first, I told him it was a scam. He kept arguing with me, but I hung up.
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