Americans lost $227 million to fake sweepstakes, prize and lottery scams in 2020, new report finds
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A new report found that Americans had about $227 million stolen from them last year. The report details how Americans lost money in 2020 to fake sweepstakes, and prize and lottery scams.
The BBB says complaints actually went down last year, but the amount of money lost went up by 33% compared to 2019. Kathy Chapman said she can't believe her 84-year-old dad fell victim to a sweepstakes scam. "I never would have thought my dad would be susceptible. It really shocked me," she told CBS News' consumer investigative correspondent Anna Werner.Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife are making end-of-life preparations for their 3-year-old son after he was found unconscious in a creek, a close family friend said in updates posted on social media and confirmed to CBS affiliate KUTV. The boy had been playing on his tractor before he ended up in the water and a mile downstream.
The launch of Boeing's star-crossed Starliner spacecraft on its first piloted test flight is slipping to at least June 1 to give engineers more time to assess a small-but-persistent helium leak in the capsule's propulsion system, and its potential impact across all phases of flight, NASA announced Wednesday.
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