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A 55-year-old woman received a letter postmarked in Spain. It advised her that she had won $736,250 through the "El Gordo Spanish Sweepstake Lottery/International Promotion Program."
A man said he had a winning lottery ticket worth $500,000, but he couldn't cash it because he was in the country illegally. What he needed was a security deposit of $7,000 and "two people with ID."
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. recently issued a warning to banks, alerting them that consumers are receiving fraudulent e-mails that appear to have been sent from the FDIC.
Detective Phil Charley of the Oshkosh Police Department said scam artists are using the guise of Social Security officials to gain bank account information for use in theft or identity frauds.
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