At first, she thought her prayers had been answered.
“I need the money so bad,” explained Betty, whose last name is not being used to protect her from additional solicitations.
The 88-year-old lives with her 90-year-old husband, Herm, in an apartment at an assisted living facility in Kent County.
Betty and Herm love their home, but they’re running out of money and may be forced to move. That’s why she was so excited when she got a letter in the mail claiming she’d won $4.5 million in a Madrid-based lottery.
“It is so real-looking,” Betty told Target 8 from her living room. “It was stamped by the government, approved by the government. I just figured, all these stamps, it’s got to be real.”
But it wasn’t the official-looking stamps that made Betty believe, nor the scammers’ use of legitimate lotto names like Powerball and Mega Millions.
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