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By way of Toyota's own Open Road Blog is word of a new scam using Toyota's name in vain to obtain financial info for use in identity theft and raiding bank accounts. The scam involves a letter and sometimes an included check branded with Toyota's logo. A couple of different forms of the scam are circulating — one of them involves a mystery-shopper program. Another is a about a lottery awarding free money and a Toyota vehicle. And let's be clear here — if you fell for this, we've got a Nigerian lottery we'd like to discuss with you.
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34-Year FoMoCo Vet Wins Lottery, Promptly Disses Dearborn's Products
David Sneath, a longtime Ford parts warehouseman out of Livonia, hit the $136,000,000 Mega Millions jackpot on Tuesday. Rather than simply announcing that he planned to drop his job like a monkey dropping a hot penny and embark on a whirlwind squanderathon that will leave future generations of Livonians speaking of the events in hushed tones, Sneath announced to reporters gathered at Lottery HQ that he would never, ever buy a vehicle made by his emphatically erstwhile employer: "I worked for Ford Motor Co.," he said. "I won't be buying a Ford product." You tell 'em, Dave! [Associated Press]Update: According to the Detroit Free Press, Sneath didn't mean to say "I won't be buying a Ford product." Instead, he'd meant to say "I won't be buying a foreign product," and plans to buy a new Navigator right away.
$35,000 In Lottery Tickets Used To Create Hummer H3
This Hummer H3 is built from $35,000 in losing lottery tickets. No sheet metal here, folks. The piece is by Brooklyn-based artists Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was and it's entitled Ghost of a Dream. The tickets came from local bodegas, where they were discarded by unlucky patrons.More »








