http://www.timesargus.com/article/20130505/BUSINESS03/705059890/1006/BUSINESS
Muriel Sedergren said she’d receive three or four calls a week but knew enough never to bite on the caller’s news that she had won a big lottery prize.
“My first question is ‘what’s this going to cost me?’” Sedergren said.
She said the next sound was the click of the caller hanging up.
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Unlike Sedergren, however, many Vermonters, especially seniors, fall prey to lottery and other scams, and wind up losing hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
The attorney general’s office and its Consumer Assistance Program, along with the University of Vermont, logged more than 1,700 scam complaints last year.
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