Name: 5 On Your Side warns against NC lottery scams
Uploaded: 2021-06-29T18:49:05-0400
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Description: 5 On Your Side says that scammers are trying to defraud you of your money, by pretending to be the North Caroilna Department of Health and Human Services.

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5 On Your Side says that scammers are trying to defraud you of your money, by pretending to be the North Caroilna Department of Health and Human Services. 

EXTENSION WAS THE REQUEST OF -- BACK TO YOU. >>> DID YOU ANSWER PHONE CALLS HOPING IT WAS NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE WON THE VACCINE DRAWING? >> BACK HOME I HAVE BEEN A SCAM. MONICA LIBERTY HAS A REPORT FOR US. >> Reporter: SO MANY PEOPLE ARE ANSWERING THEIR PHONES JUST IN CASE IT IS THE CALL. SCAMMERS KNOW THAT AND ARE TRYING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE. >> Reporter: 2 LUCKY WINNERS ALREADY GOT THE CALL. NEITHER OF THEM THOUGHT IT WAS REAL. >> WHO BELIEVES YOU ARE GOING TO WIN $1 MILLION? >> Reporter: THE FIRST OF FOUR MILLION-DOLLAR DRAWINGS -- >> SHE WASN'T CONVINCED UNTIL SHE GOT ON A VIDEO CALL. >> I THOUGHT IT WAS A TOTAL LIE. I DID NOT BELIEVE IT. >> Reporter: LUCKILY FOR THEM, THE CALLS WERE REAL. 20 OF PEOPLE ARE GETTING CALLS THAT ARE NOT. ONE PERSON SAYS HE ANSWERED CALLS HE OTHERWISE WOULD HAVEN'T -- WOULDN'T -- ANOTHER IS WONDERING WHAT TO BE DONE TO STOP BOGUS CALLS. THERE IS NO WAY TO STOP SCAMMERS FROM CALLING. YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF BY KNOWING HOW THE DRAWINGS WORK. ACCORDING TO ONE SPOKESPERSON, WINNERS WILL BE CALLED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES FROM A 919 AREA CODE. YOU CAN LET THE CALLS GO TO VOICEMAIL. IF YOU ARE A WINNER, DHHS WILL LEAVE A MESSAGE. IT IS POSSIBLE YOU GET AN EMAIL, AGAIN, FROM DHHS. IF YOU WIN, YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO GIVE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION OVER THE PHONE OR PAY ANY MONEY. NONE. IF YOU ARE CONCERNED YOU ARE SPEAKING TO A SCAMMER, HANG UP AND CALL AND SEE DHHS AT 919855 40 -- THEY WILL CONNECT WINNERS TO THE APPROPRIATE PERSON. >> IS THE FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL, IT IS GOOD THAT SHELLEY HAD HER GUARD UP TO AVOID SCAMS. >> Reporter: MAKE SURE YOU PAY ATTENTION, TOO. >> Reporter: THIS IS A GOOD REMINDER TO NEVER GIVE OUT PERSONAL INFORMATION OR PAY ANY MONEY ANY TIME YOU GET A CALL OUT OF THE BLUE. IT IS BEST TO RESEARCH THE BUSINESS, FIND THE NUMBER YOURSELF, THEN CALL BACK TO VERIFY IT IS LEGITIMATE. WE HAVE HEARD TIME AND TIME AGAIN FROM VICTIMS, THESE SCAMMERS ARE CONVINCING. MONICA LIBERTY, WRAL NEWS. >>> EVEN THOUGH WE TALK ABOUT THIS OFTEN, AMERICANS LOST $29 BILLION TO SCAMS ON THE PHONE LAST YEAR. THAT IS ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT FROM A COMPANY CALLED TRUE COLOR. ONE IN THREE AMERICANS SAY THEY HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF A PHONE SCAM.

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5 On Your Side warns against NC lottery scams

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I'm neurologist, Elizabeth Garra, a mix of sun and clouds out there as you're headed out the door, places where we're seeing some cloud cover lingering should be breaking up by lunchtime, if not before 80 degrees in Raleigh, 81 in Durham and in Fayetteville, those are our highs for this afternoon. So it's going to be a nice day, the coolest day that we'll see this week, we're going to start to see things creeping up a little bit from comfy into tolerable in terms of our muggy meter for today. And then it continues to climb from tolerable to humid all the way up towards tropical by Thursday and Friday, we're going to see a lot more moisture working its way back into the area and a better chance for rain Friday into the holiday weekend. I know uh we've had some cool temperatures over the weekend so you can see North Carolina there in the blue shaded area. That's where temperatures are below normal. And then we get into the yellows and the oranges above normal starting tomorrow really and really amping up for say Thursday and Friday, we check out the Bulls game. It's going to be a really nice evening for a game tomorrow. They kick off their next home stand that lasts all the way through the holiday weekend, 630 game temperatures will be close to 80. Dropping into the mid seventies by around eight o'clock, we'll see partly cloudy skies and humidity again. Should be middle of the road. Our normal high is 81. We do jump to 88 Wednesday and then all the way to 91 we haven't seen a lot of 90 degree temperatures, but we'll be there. Thursday. It is cooler Friday because we'll see more cloud cover and a chance of showers and storms in the afternoon in the evening. And we check out the rest of that Memorial Day Holiday weekend and we have preview down because of course, it's a long time before Sunday and Monday, we're going to have a lot more information coming in right now. It looks like Saturday would be the wettest day. It would be drier on Sunday with a small chance of storms and then some scattered storms on Monday. But if you do have critical outdoor plans over the weekend, make sure you keep checking back as we continue to update the forecast.

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Good evening, Darren Ott here with tonight's drawings for Sunday. May 19th, 2024. Let's get started. As always with Carolina pick three where the first winning number is eight. The second is three and the third is four and our pick three. Fireball number tonight is eight. Joining me for tonight's drawing is our auditor from mcconal Jones L LP. We move along to Carolina pick four. The first pick four, number is one. The second is four. The third is one and the fourth is two. In our pick for fireball number is five. Turning now to the Carolina cash five. If no one wins the top prize tonight, tomorrow's top prize is estimated at $130,000. Good luck. The first cash five number is 11. The second is 12. The 3rd 34. The fourth is five and the fifth and final number tonight is seven over the past 16 years. The lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education. So thanks for your support and thanks for playing the North Carolina Education lottery.

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Good afternoon. I'm Claire Justin and welcome to this afternoon. Choice for Sunday. May 19th, 2024. Let's get started with our car to pick three. Your first number is eight. Second is nine, third is also nine and your pick. The fireball is two. Joining me for this afternoon's drawing is our auditor from mcconnell and Jones L LP. Now let's move on to the Carolina pick for your first pick. Four. Number is four. Second is six. Third is one, fourth is one and your pick four. Fireball is eight. The North Carolina Education lottery contributed over $10 billion to education. Thanks for your support. Get your winning numbers each day here on your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education lottery.

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Johnson tonight, we have another life changing jackpot for you. It's worth an estimated $77.5 million. I get those tickets out. Let's play. That first number is 42. Followed by the number 59. Tonight. We're going to meet, keep on trucking who won $50,000 playing powerball. Now, for the rest of those numbers, we've got 3719, rounding it out with 36. Your powerball number tonight. Good luck. Everyone is 19 and your power play multiplier is two. Let's take a look at those numbers one last time. Remember there are multiple ways to win. We'll see you back here Monday night. Good night, everyone. Favorite jackpot game. This is powerball. Good evening America. I'm.

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>> ACROSS AMERICA WITH MEGA JACKPOTS, IT'S MEGA MILLIONS WOODS UP AMERICA. I'M JOHN CROW. IT IS FRIDAY MAY 17TH AND TONIGHT'S MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT IS AN ESTIMATED A NEW TIES. 393 MILLION DOLLARS. AND WIN THAT JACKPOT. YOU MUST MATCH THESE 5 WHITE. PLUS THAT GOLD MEGA BALL NOW LETS SEE IF I CAN MAKE YOU A MILLIONAIRE TONIGHT. YOUR FIRST WINNING NUMBER TONIGHT IS 8 AND FOLLOWED BY 60. UP NEXT, WE HAVE 70. YOUR NEXT NUMBER IS 17 IN YOUR FINAL WHITE BALL NUMBER FOR THIS FRIDAY EVENING IS 40 NOW FOR THE MEGA BALL NUMBER. THAT IS 3. AGAIN. TONIGHT'S WINNING NUMBERS ARE 8, 60, 70

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