Stay Alert: Beware of Fake Lottery Scams and Fraud
The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery reminds players to stay aware and alert as they play lottery games. Fraud accounts and scammers never take a break, especially when jackpots get really high.
The Mega Millions jackpot for today has climbed to $750 million, and Saturday’s Powerball jackpot stands at $640 million.
According to a press release, “Fake lottery scams are fairly common,” said ASL Director Eric Hagler. “You can receive a phone call, email, text and even social media messages that are seemingly real. Do not be fooled. Stay aware and play responsibly.”
Hagler said the only time lottery representatives might be contacting players is to notify them that they have won a Second-Chance Promotion or a Play It Again® drawing through The Club. Otherwise players must come forward to claim their prize.
Hard as it might be to believe, the years that stretched from roughly 1967 through the bicentennial year of 1976 brought even more foment, outrage, unrest, and upheaval to America than the most recent decade has managed. The escalation of the Vietnam War, the student protests against that war, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., psychedelia and the sexual revolution, Woodstock, the political resurrection of Richard Nixon, the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the moon landings, the Manson murders, second-wave feminism, the Pentagon Papers, the shootings at Kent State, Watergate, the fall of Nixon, the rise of the summer blockbuster film it was an era of almost unprecedented social and cultural turmoil.
Two Arkansans each claim $1 million lottery prizes in two days
The New Year is starting out great for two Arkansans who each claimed a $1 million prize from the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery (ASL) this week. Author: THV11 Digital Updated: 9:23 AM CST January 6, 2021
The New Year is starting out great for two Arkansans who each claimed a $1 million prize from the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery (ASL) this week.
On Tuesday, Jan. 5, Robbye Smith from Berryville claimed her $1 million prize at the ASL Claim Center in Little Rock. She won the top prize from the Millionaires Club scratch-off ticket. Smith said she plans to purchase a new home with her winnings.
Walker Ryan got two important things when he was 14: his first skateboarding sponsor and a box of books written by his grandmother.
He can’t remember whether it was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or his friend’s older brother who got him interested in skateboarding. Forgive his fuzzy memory: He was 7. At age 10, Ryan started sending what skaters call “sponsor-me tapes”; four years later, he got his first sponsor, the sporting goods chain Play It Again Sports. Skateboarders earn their living from sponsorships, and they start young.
It was Ryan’s grandmother, novelist Susan Trott, who bequeathed him his literary sensibility. Trott’s oeuvre, contained in that box, was “very adult,” he recalls. “Real romance elements. There’s suspense and really a lot of sex and just real-life stuff in it.” Young Walker had no idea what his Grummy (as she is called) had been up to. “It was mind-blowing to me. Like, whoa, she can write the kinds of things I’ve only seen in R-