Please advise your readers of this scam:

A lady just phoned me advising me that I had won $1.5 million dollars on a Western Union Contest. Wasn't it great!!!

I just had to go to a Western Union office and send $250 to the account of Mereilly Hines, 10 Jones, Montego Bay, Jamaica. After that I would get my check.

She was very friendly until told that I was going to refer this call to the police. She promptly hung up without even saying goodbye.

Please remind your readers that if it is too good to be true it is probably isn't.

-- Angela Brown, Miami

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