Evolving mail scam is one to watch for

Authorities say it’s just the beginning of evolving scheme Letters mailed from Canada likely are just the beginning, as 2 local women find out

By Scott Hammers / The Bulletin
October 31, 2008

With crisp official letterhead and gold-lettered checks, the letters received recently by two local women looked credible, even if they did deliver the unlikely news that they’d won hundreds of thousands of dollars in a foreign lottery. Mailed from Canada, the letters told the....

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