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My grandma received a phone call from a guy claimed to be from STARS Lotteries saying that she won $250,000 and a Ford Escape as part of the STARS 60th Anniversary promotion. My grandma was skeptical about this so we called my mom, who used to work in a credit union and knows all the different kinds of scams. She researched it. STARS hasn't been around for 60 years. We even called STARS Lotteries using an official phone number on their website and they said the same thing and that the guy calling saying we won a "prize" was a scam. My mom even tried looking up the phone number that the guy gave to my grandma, & it didn't come up with a known provider. So mom sent me the information to report it as a scam to the Canadian Anti Fraud Centre, which is what I am doing now. Grandma didn't give out any personal information (banking, street/residential, etc) & will not be calling that number back. I'll also report this incident to the RCMP (if this isn't part of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police). I hope nobody else gets phone calls like this. It's sad that it happens. We didn't receive anything by mail, as it was a direct phone call to our house landline and it came up as "Private Number" on caller ID. Again this event happened today on Thursday January 16th 2025 at around 4:00pm CST
SK, CAN- S0G 1Z0
SK-
Unknown Email
(306) 994-8084
Unknown URL
Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes
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Callers name was John Logan STARS Lotteries Imposter
January 16, 2025
934677
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