PIERRE, S.D. (KELO AM) Recently an elderly woman in Sioux Falls was phone scammed out of hundreds of dollars by someone claiming to be from Publisher's Clearing House.
Now, State Attorney General Marty Jackley says he has been getting complaints of similar scams statewide. Jackley wants to remind everyone that if you are lucky enough to win the Clearing House Sweepstakes, you will never, never be informed by phone.
The Sioux Falls woman is out hundreds of dollars, but it could have been thousands. That's what the scammers told her to send in return for her prize, but, thankfully, family members got wind of what was up and intervened before she sent still more money.