Scams continue to target seniors in the community with an increase of a lottery scam and Wellington County OPP are trying to crack down.
On September 8th an elderly victim was contacted by their landline phone posing a lottery service.
The scammers told the victim they were able to purchase tickets for the lottery from gift cards and promised prizes from the lottery.
The victim was told to go to a store and purchase $500 worth of gift cards and give them to the scammer.
The next day the victim was told against to buy gift cards but asking for $2000 worth of the cards.
The victim became suspicious at which they then reported the incident to police.
OPP say to look for warning signs such as emails, texts and phone calls at odd times of the night, creating a false sense of urgency, spelling errors or random links or attachments.
