Douglas Seely, of South Carolina, recently received a scam call from two men who sounded like they were from the Caribbean. The men told him that he had won $3.5 million and a white Mercedes Benz convertible and told him to get to the nearest Walgreens and buy a $400 Amazon card, presumably to send to them or share a code. Seely declined to give them any money.

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