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APRIL | MAY 2022 • MONTANA SENIOR NEWS PAGE 13

Did You Win The Jamaica Lottery? I Did

90-year-old North Dakota woman was
BY RAYMOND REID robbed of her life savings. She received
$287 of the $400,000 she’s owed. Her case
(SENIOR WIRE) My history with landlines launched the first large-scale Jamaican lot-
goes all the way back to Southern Bell and tery scam prosecuted in the United States.
North State. Today, we’re one of the few Thirty-one Jamaican nationals have been
Kernersville, North Carolina, residences prosecuted. Authorities identified victims in
that has a landline. 31 states, with more than 100 mostly elderly
Before cell phones came along, phone people bilked of more than $6 million.
books were 2 or 3 inches thick, includ- We only have a landline because it links
ing the yellow pages. Our phone book is a us to the internet and wi-fi. I also use it to
quarter-inch thick; mostly yellow pages, “We only have a landline because it links us to the call my cell phone when I’ve misplaced it,
or should I say the Real Yellow Pages. The internet and wi-fi. I also use it to call my cell phone which is often. That’s why I never let the
rest of the phone book (12 pages) lists a when I’ve misplaced it, which is often.” © Lukasz battery run down, because if it were just
Kochanek, Bigstock.com.
few businesses, churches, and residences, on vibrate, I would never find it. I can hit
including ours. This phone book includes “Find my Phone” on my iPad, which I did
Kernersville, Walkertown, Bellew’s Creek, so he just said “I have a check made out to the other day, and it showed that the phone
Danbury, Quaker Gap, and Walnut Cove. Has ‘you’. You have won the Jamaica lottery. was in our house. At least I hadn’t left it at
anyone ever heard of Quaker Gap? Please Before you can claim this money, though, the grocery store.
send me an email if you live there. I will need some information about you. I called it. It was in a bathroom upstairs.
Or you can call me. Our number is in Hello ... hello ... ” On top of the commode. Not in it; like its
the book. You will be greeted by “please I did some research on the scam to see predecessor last year. When I told the guy at
leave your message at the tone,” because what this guy was up to. To receive this T-Mobile I was getting a new phone because
we never answer that phone, which rings money I would have to wire him money—up I dropped my old one in the commode, he
several times a day. The caller I. D. reveals to $4 thousand for taxes and fees. He also laughed. Said it happens all the time. I
calls from all over the country, probably would need my Social Security number and didn’t believe him. MSN
from scam artists trying to sell maintenance checking account routing number.
warranties for our cars. Would anyone fall victim to this non- Raymond Reid can be contacted at [email protected].
I did get a message the other day from sense? Yes. According to ABC News, a
Jamaica. He didn’t know my name, of course,

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