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Phone scam sounded ‘too good to be true’: Okotoks resident | Globalnews.ca

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Brian Fea says he got a call last Thursday, Oct. 31 , telling him he was the winner of a draw for $ 500,000 .

Fea noticed the caller ID on the phone was spelled S-T-A-R-Z, instead of ending with an S’.

The caller asked for his banking information so he could provide it to Revenue Canada .

He says the caller asked him if he had a pen and paper so they could exchange the winning number, contact names and numbers.

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37

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55

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informal

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English

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30

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short-lived

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