Someone in South Carolina,whose identity remains unknown, won $1.6 billion dollars in Tuesday’s Powerball lottery. It’s the biggest lottery prize ever awarded…and that’s not necessarily such a estimable thing.
Marvin and Mae Acosta also won $327.8 million in January, and wanted to establish a charity. This made them a target for scammers. One group even set up a fake charity using the Acosta name,and sent out scam letters to others under the name, according to Lottery Critic.
Many lottery winners bear discovered that there is a dark side to raking in a enormous jackpot. nearly every lottery winner whose name is published by the media becomes a target for scammers. Their names get achieve on email chains, or phony websites,and social media accounts.
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Source: inquisitr.com