The Better Business Bureau in Greenville has a stack of hundreds of types of check scams, asking people to wire back money and keep the rest.
But Tammy Dankovich says never before has the Bureau's name been used to try to con people through a lottery scam, until now.
“We're trying to help people as much as we can to help them before they get scammed and here you know somebody got scammed 80 thousand dollars using our name," said Dankovich.
So far no people in the Upstate have fallen victim. Dankovich wants to keep it that way -- warning people not to be fooled if they get a call or a letter from the better business bureau saying you've won the lottery.
This may be the first time that the better business bureau name has shown up on a lottery scam, but even local businesses have been victims, in fact the bureau says that one Upstate law firm had to freeze a bank account after it's name showed up on a check scam."
“What they do is they send checks that look correct but it's not to anybody local, because they don't want anybody local to check on it," said Dankovich.
And Dankovich showed us numerous fake checks with letters claiming they were associated with trusted names like the “State of South Carolina,” all with phone numbers she says you should never use as a reference..
"I've been there in front of people when they call they person says ‘of course I'm not scamming you,' well of course they're not going to tell you that they're scamming you!" said Dankovich.
She advises using a different source like the internet to track down numbers. That search might even pull up a warning from others who have been scammed.
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