Let's Roast Holiday Scams Sweepstakes

Don't just roast that holiday turkey. Let's roast holiday scams! Enter for a chance to win $250 just in time for the holidays.

AARP Ohio wants you to help you have a safe and wonderful holiday with family and friends. Check out the holiday scam prevention tips below. Then, enter our sweepstakes for a chance to win one of four $250 Visa gift cards. The sweepstakes runs from 12 a.m. (EST), November 11, 2024 to 11: 59 p.m., November 22, 2024. Click HERE for the official rules

CLICK HERE TO ENTER sweepstakes!

Holiday Scam Warning Signs

• Look out for huge discounts on hot gift items, especially when touted on social media posts or unfamiliar websites. 
• Watch out for spelling errors or shoddy grammar on a shopping website or in an email or text. 
• Don't respond to unsolicited emails that asks you to click on a link or download an app to access a deal or arrange a delivery.
• Recognize pressure from a charity fundraiser to donate right away.

How to protect yourself from holiday scams

• Rather than clicking on a link from an email or text to a hot deal, go to your web browser and type in the web address of the company purportedly offering said great deal.
• Pay for gifts by credit card. This way you can dispute charges and limit the damage if the transaction was fraudulent.
• Buy gifts cards online directly from the issuing business instead of from a retail rack, where the cards can be tampered with. When receiving a gift card as a present, register it if that’s an option, and use it sooner rather than later. 
• Avoid conducting any business online (making a purchase, donating, accessing password-protected sites) while using a public WIFI network unless you employ a virtual private network (VPN).
• Pushy charities could be an indicator that the cause is fake; legitimate charities will accept your donations on your own timeline.
• Any time you are prompted to make a purchase or a donation by wire transfer or gift card, it is a scam.

Now that you have some tools to turn up the heat and roast holiday scams, enter for a chance to win $250. Don’t delay, enter TODAY! Or be sure to enter by November 22, 2024 at 11:59 pm EST.

*AARP is sponsoring a Fraud Prevention Sweepstakes, "Let's Roast Holiday Scams". NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to legal residents of Ohio. Must be 18 years or older to enter. Only one (1) entry per individual. Click HERE to enter. Official Rules Below.

OFFICIAL RULES

THE AARP LET’S ROAST HOLIDAY SCAMS SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. BRIEF OVERVIEW: The AARP Let’s Roast Holiday Scams! (“Promotion”) takes place on Midnight EST, November 11, 2024 to 11:59pm EST, November 22, 2024, (“Promotion Period”) at the following link: https://events.aarp.org/OELNPR. The Promotion consists of a Grand Prize Sweepstakes. More specific details are stated below.

2. ELIGIBILITY: The Promotion  is open to all legal residents of Ohio, who are at least 18 years old as of the date of entry, except officers, directors, and employees (and members of their household and immediate families, i.e., parents, children, spouse, siblings) of AARP (also referred to as “Administrator”), its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising/promotion agencies, and/or their affiliates, assigns or representatives (hereinafter referred to collectively as “Administrator & Others”), and all other persons or entities associated with the development, administration, promotion, execution of, supply to or printing of this Promotion.

3. HOW TO PARTICIPATE/SELECTION OF WINNER/PRIZE/ODDS OF WINNING:

A) Grand Prize Sweepstakes: There will be four (4) Grand Prize Sweepstakes winners (“Grand Prize Sweepstakes”). To enter the Grand Prize Sweepstakes, visit the following link at https://events.aarp.org/OELNPR, between Midnight EST, November 11, 2024 to 11:59pm EST, November 22, 2024; and completely fill out the Official Entry Form provided by Administrator’s representatives at the link,  including entering First Name, Last Name, Email Address, and Zip Code. Upon submission of the completed Official Entry Form, each entrant will be entered into the drawing. Only one (1) entry per individual.

• Selection of Grand      Prize Sweepstakes Winners (“Sweepstakes Winners”): On November 25,      2024, at approximately 10:00am, Administrator will randomly      select four (4) entry forms from among all of the entry forms entered in      order to determine the potential Sweepstakes Winners. Upon selection of      the entry forms, Administrator or its representative will announce the winners      on the next business day. The entrants whose entry forms were drawn must provide      proper identification. The Administrator or its representative will verify      that the winners with proper identification match the entry form randomly      selected by Administrator or its representative. If a potential      Winner does not present proper identification to the Administrator or its      representative when contacted by an AARP representative, it will result in      disqualification of that entrant as the potential Sweepstakes Winner and Administrator      shall randomly select another entry form from among all eligible entry      forms in order to determine Sweepstakes Winner. 
• Prizes: Each Sweepstakes      Winner will receive a $250.00 Visa      Gift Card. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”) of each Prize: $250.00. If the actual retail      value of the Grand Prize differs from its stated ARV, the Sweepstakes      Winner will not receive the difference in value. Limit: Only one (1) Grand      Prize per individual. Odds of      Winning: Odds of winning a Grand Prize depend upon the total number of      all eligible entries received during the Grand Prize Sweepstakes.

Participant need not be an AARP member in order to enter and/or win the Grand Prize Sweepstakes. Being an AARP member will not increase your chance or odds of winning.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO GRAND PRIZE RECIPIENT (“PRIZE RECIPIENT”):

Prize Limit: An individual, including a member of his/her household, regardless of email address used, may only win one (1) Grand Prize throughout the Promotion Period. The Winner of the Grand Prize will receive the Grand Prize immediately after having been confirmed as a Winner. Prizes are not transferable or substitutable except by Administrator with one of equal or greater value. Administrator is not responsible for any Prize Recipient’s inability to utilize her/his prize. All federal, state and local taxes are solely the responsibility of each Prize Recipient. Additionally, at the sole discretion of the Administrator, disqualification, forfeiture and the selection of an alternate Winner of a Grand Prize may result from any of the following: (a) a potential Winner’s failure, upon request, to provide Administrator with satisfactory proof of age, identity, residency, and/or eligibility; (b) a potential Winner’s failure to accept or utilize the Grand Prize as provided herein; or (c) any other non-compliance, as determined by Administrator in its sole discretion, with the Official Rules. Additionally, in the event that an individual’s name is selected more than once over the course of the Promotion Period, Administrator will redraw to select an alternate Winner.

6. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: Administrator & Others are not responsible for interrupted or unavailable network server or other connections; for miscommunications; failed telephone, computer or electronic transmissions; for jumbled, scrambled or misdirected entries or transmissions; for phone, electrical, network, technology or computer hardware or software or program malfunctions, failures or difficulties; or any other errors, omissions, interruptions, or deletions of any kind, whether human, mechanical or electronic; or for non-receipt of any entry regardless of the cause of it not being properly received by Administrator. Administrator & Others are not responsible for illegible, unintelligible, late, lost or stolen entries; for incorrect or inaccurate entry information, whether caused by Internet users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Promotion; or for any technical, printing or human errors which may occur in the receipt, non-receipt or processing of any entries, Tickets or Ticket stubs in the Promotion. In no event will Administrator award more Grand Prizes than are stated in these Official Rules. In the event that more persons claim to hold winning Tickets than as stated in these Official Rules, Administrator will conduct a random drawing among such claimants to award the Grand Prize. Persons found tampering with or abusing any aspect of the Promotion, as solely determined by Administrator, will be disqualified and may be subject to prosecution. Any person attempting to enter using multiple email addresses, multiple identities or any other device or artifice to enter multiple times or to interfere with the proper play of the Promotion will be disqualified from participation in the Promotion. If, in the judgment of Administrator, the Promotion is compromised by viruses, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes beyond the control of Administrator, which or may corrupt the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the Promotion, Administrator reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, discontinue, suspend or terminate the Promotion and proceed to select potential Winner in a manner it deems fair and reasonable.

Administrator, SPONSOR & OTHERS MAKE NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT AS REGARDS ANY PRIZE OR ANY COMPONENT OF ANY PRIZE. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS OF EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS TO LEARN IF ANY OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

7. PRIVACY POLICY: Any personally identifiable information collected during an entrant's participation in the Promotion will be collected by Administrator and used by Administrator in accordance with Administrator's Privacy Policy as such is stated at http://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/privacy-policy/.

8. PUBLICITY RIGHTS: By accepting a prize, each Prize Recipient agrees to allow Administrator and/or Administrator's designees the perpetual right to use his/her name, biographical information, photos, videos and/or likeness, and statements for promotion, trade, commercial, advertising and publicity purposes, at any time or times, in all media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide, including but not limited to on the World Wide Web and Internet, without notice, review or approval and without additional compensation except where prohibited by law.

9. GOVERNING LAW: Issues concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules shall be governed by the laws of Washington, DC.

10. RELEASE: By participating, each entrant releases and agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Administrator & Others from and against any and all costs, claims, damages, or any other injury, whether due to negligence or otherwise, to person(s) or property (including, without limitation, death or violation of any personal rights, such as violation of right of publicity/privacy, libel, or slander), due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, to participation in the Promotion, or arising out of the receipt, use or misuse, or enjoyment of any Prize.

11. GENERAL: By entering the Promotion, entrants agree to abide and to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Administrator, which shall be final in all matters pertaining to this Promotion. All entries become property of Administrator and will not be returned. Void outside of the fifty (50) United States/District of Columbia and wherever prohibited or restricted by law. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Entries become property of Administrator and will not be returned.

12. WINNER’S list:  To obtain the names of the Grand Prize Winner, send a properly stamped, self-addressed envelope, by December 22, 2024, to AARP Winner’s List, AARP Ohio, 41 South High St. Suite 3550, Columbus, Ohio 43215.

Administrator: AARP, 601 E. Street NW, Washington, DC 20049.

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