‘It Sounded Reasonable at the Time’ – Elderly JPMorgan Chase Customer Duped out of $13,000 by Contest Scam: Report

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An elderly JPMorgan Chase customer is out thousands of dollars after scammers convinced him he won a big prize. An 87-year-old man from Portland, Oregon, lost a total of $13,000 to scammers who told him he needed to pay them money to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars and a new SUV, reports the NBC-affiliated KGW8. The victim, whose name was not provided, says he received a call one morning from a man claiming he won a Publishers Clearing House prize. “[He said] that I won second prize. Se...