Perhaps they just lost a spouse, or went through a traumatic health scare. Perhaps, as they’ve grown older, they’ve simply become lonely. Then someone calls bearing good news. Over 50 elderly Americans answered the phone to such news a couple years ago, told by callers based in Broward that they had won a lottery prize of millions of dollars.
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Fri, 05/03/2024 - 5:31am
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