Friday, March 14, 2014

FTC Scam Alert #1

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Federal Trade Commission Consumer Information
 
A lotto malarkey
by Nat Wood
Assistant Director, Consumer & Business Education, FTC

At the FTC, we’ve been warning people away from foreign lottery scams for years. So when one of our colleagues recently got an official-looking mailer from Canada, titled “RE: PRIZE WINNING NOTIFICATION,” we turned to our own advice to check it out.

 


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