IF you win a legit sweepstake first; you will have @ some point entered it..second;you will receive a letter usually fed-ex called an "affidavit of Eligibility" that you have to sign and have notarized and return in 5 days in a PREPAID fed-ex envelope.stating you or immediate family are not employed by the company or judging org.offering the sweeps.
and third; a TRAVEL AGENT will contact you to set up plane tickets hotel etc and fed ex the info to you. if cash is part of the prize,the judging org that picked you will call you and say "i am fed-exing the check on mon.tue etc you will need to sign for it.
at no point ever will there be a fee or go to western union etc,etc.etc!

hint, scammers know how to target the vulnerable members of society such as the elderly. Clearly this one is using fear tactics and hitting people who have a legitimate reason to panic about their utility payments.
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It doesn't help that the power companies have long since ceased having local counters where you can sort these things out with a human being not over the phone, of course. The various ways that a family member was given to solve their own overdue bill just recently were far too much for someone with a limited education -- you could do it THIS way, but you couldn't do it at THAT office, you could set up THIS payment plan, but only if you had THAT information. I can totally believe someone would fall for this prepaid card business.

Just the other day I received an e-mail from Nigeria that said I had some money coming if I would reply back with some info.

Agreed hint. I`m not the sharpest tool in the shed, but it is very hard to believe that people fall for this crap.

The sad part is there really are people who fall for these scams.

And what do these four posts have to do with the story's topic?

You guys aren't referring to "Mr. never submitted a budget or a list of entitlement programs to be cut and then blame the Republicans for taking no action", are you? No need to respond in the affirmative, just vote "present". It's worked so well for him in the past.

He's taken the classic "vote early and vote often" paradigm from his hometown and morphed it into "lie early and lie often".

You mean the same president who is walking around saying that we will make it throug these cuts if we need too? Yeah that sounds like the sky is falling.

We also have a man posing as the leader of our country going around yelling "the sky is falling, the sky is falling but I want to spend more money." He made many promises he hasn't kept (the most transparent president, post all bills before voting on them, yada, yada, yada) and when called on the carpet for his hypocrisy, his henchmen threaten the reporter. Nice guy, huh? Talk about a scam!

Also, there are reports of a person dressed as a Governor telling people he knows what's best for the state and he will create 250,000 jobs. The people that have fallen victim to this scam are those that voted for him. Twice!