876-529-0597

I've won the lottery and they want $350 to send it to me

Things to believe:

• There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
• If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
• You have not won big bucks from a benign benefactor, a pot of pesos from PCH, dinero from a doctor, a car from a caller, or a grant from a gracious government    ◄- ◄- ◄- ◄- ◄-
• The tooth fairy really does not exist
• Everything you read on the internet is not necessarily true.
• It is illegal to ask for money for a loan or prize, before awarding the loan or prize!    ◄- ◄- ◄- ◄- ◄-
• "Free Trips" are loaded with mandatory & costly extras, and you usually must give them your card number after listening to a loooong spiel at a hotel.
• Microsoft or a different famous software company, or one of their agents did NOT cold call you to fix your computer.
• The moon is not made of green cheese.
• The IRS will snailmail you, rather than phone you, if there is a problem.
• Jackalope milk is not an aphrodisiac.
• If you Vanilla Card, MoneyGram or Western Union money to a scammer, the money is gone.
• You should beware of Geeks bearing gifts, specially if the gift is a wooden horse with termites, or a statement that your computer is infected.
• 876 is NOT your lucky number, and it will cost you money to call that area code!
• The number you see on your Caller ID may not be the number of the person who called you!

More information on those scams (and others) may be found at
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/facts.html

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I just got the same call

Male voice with an accent and lisp, "I'm calling from the MGM Grand and you've just won five and one-half million dollars." I was in traffic and disconnected without hearing the rest of the scam.

I just got this call today! Said I won $2.5 Million dollars!! Whoo hooo - catch is - I have to Western Union $110 to Janie Jones in Roxburg NC - even though he was calling from the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas! Guess not such a lucky day - but he was pretty much demanding the money and told me not to listen to my friend who was in the background saying it was a scam! I googled the phone number while he was on hold and found others with the same problem! Can't believe people would fall for this - but I guess some people would overlook the $110 that you had to send because once you sent it - he said "the check was going to be on it's way"! Said that my phone number was randomly picked to be the winner - But yet he didn't know my name - so I asked him how was the check (that would be here in an hour and a half after I sent the $110) going to have my name on it since they didn't know it! Geesh!!  SCAMMERS SUCK!!!