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Collect Call from Prize Patrol - Louis Whitehead, Sweepstakes Official

Posted on: Sat, 04/12/2008 - 17:23
Collect Call from Prize Patrol - Louis Whitehead, Sweepstakes Official

Louis Whitehead is a name employed by a well-spoken fraud artist who calls from pay phones in or near the Atlanta Airport. He claims to be with the magazine sweepstakes promotion currently airing commercials on TV. He announces that you are the winner. Later he claims that the "prize patrol" will drive past your house and award the prize to someone else if you do not wire him $600 to $6000 to cover taxes on the prize. Calls from Mr. Whitehead often begin, "Collect Call from the Prize Patrol."

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Posted on: Mon, 04/14/2008 - 14:45 #1

Keep in mind you NEVER have to pay for a prize you won up front. You may have to pay taxes later, but you never have to wire or pay any money to claim the prize!

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