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Scam Alert: You Have To Enter To Win 0

A new wrinkle in scams, this one trading on Publishers Clearing House:

Victims receive a call or text message from “Publisher’s Clearing House” telling them that they have “just won”, according to a Sheriff’s Office news release. They are instructed to go to a Walmart or Kmart to purchase two $500 Greendot cards, a prepaid credit card. They are told to then call and provide the Greendot credit card numbers, to be used later as verification.

The scammer then transfers the money from the giftcards to himself.

It’s appeared California and likely is on its way to a cell phone near you.

I’m so old, I can remember when PCH was primarily a purveyor of publications and did not offer how-to sex DVDs.

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