{"id":1451,"date":"2021-12-07T08:58:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T08:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T13:10:08","slug":"ny-sweepstakes-offering-880000-prize-is-nothing-but-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/awareness\/ny-sweepstakes-offering-880000-prize-is-nothing-but-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"NY sweepstakes offering $880,000 \u2018prize\u2019 is nothing but a scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The check is in the scam!<\/p>\n<p>New Yorkers are receiving letters trumpeting that they are winners of the \u201cSupermarket Customer Sweepstakes Raffle Draw\u201d \u2014 and their prize is a cool $880,000.<\/p>\n<p>The congratulatory missive includes a realistic-looking first payment check of $8,000 and requests a processing fee of $7,000 to release the remaining \u201cpayout.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/prize-is-nothing-but-a-scam.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"652\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/prize-is-nothing-but-a-scam.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/prize-is-nothing-but-a-scam.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/prize-is-nothing-but-a-scam-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/prize-is-nothing-but-a-scam-624x306.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>But the golden ticket is nothing more than a tease and suckers who buy into the swindle also get stuck paying bank fees after the award check doesn\u2019t clear.<\/p>\n<p>The letter assures that a \u201cbank certified cashier\u2019s check for the [prize] is already purchased in your name and awaiting authorization for release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t take the bait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The check is in the scam! New Yorkers are receiving letters trumpeting that they are winners of the \u201cSupermarket Customer Sweepstakes Raffle Draw\u201d \u2014 and their prize is a cool $880,000. The congratulatory missive includes a realistic-looking first payment check of $8,000 and requests a processing fee of $7,000 to release the remaining \u201cpayout.\u201d But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}