The Shot at a Million lottery weekly drawings start Friday. You can sign up if you are vaccinated at www.shotatamillion.com.
ST. CHARLES PARISH, La. — If you are vaccinated against COVID-19, you can still sign up for the “Shot at a Million” lottery through the Louisiana Department of Health. The first drawing is Friday.
The St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s issued a warning to make sure you sign up for the legitimate lottery and don’t fall for a scam. The sheriff’s office received complaints of citizens receiving phone calls from people claiming to provide assistance in registering for the lottery.
“We were able to obtain a telephone number from one of our citizens and the number was registered to a company that does not appear to have any involvement with the ‘COVID Lottery,'” the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office Facebook post said. “This most likely is done with a criminal practice known as ‘spoofing’ where a criminal calls you using a telephone number that they can clone to resemble any telephone number of their choosing.”
Cynthia Albert with the Better Business Bureau in New Orleans warns it is typical for scammers to use your area code even if they may be calling from somewhere else.
“You have to realize a lot of these scams are coming from out of the country,”…
