North Shore Chase the Ace organizers warn of possible scams
Organizers of the North Shore Chase the Ace fundraiser are warning Islanders to be careful for scams earlier than they buy tickets.
In latest weeks, faux accounts mimicking the group’s Fb web page have been arrange.
The identical factor has occurred to the Fb pages of a few of the organizers, together with that of Mike Doiron.
He mentioned the scammers messaged individuals on his mates listing asking them for cash, and that they needed to take care of an analogous state of affairs a couple of weeks in the past.
With solely seven playing cards left within the deck, the weekly draw is now value about $2.4 million.
The group’s web page has about 20,000 followers. Doiron suspects the heightened pleasure concerning the fundraiser is what’s change into interesting to these attempting to defraud others.
“We’re extra noticeable now that we’re so excessive.”
Doiron mentioned Chase the Ace doesn’t solicit individuals and does little promoting.
“If it would not sound correct, it is not proper,” he mentioned.
They have not gone to police as a result of so far as they know, nobody has been taken in by the rip-off, mentioned Doiron.
The one locations to buy tickets are on the Lions Membership in Winsloe, Cymbria, Hunter River and North Rustico, the North Rustico hearth division drive-thru, at Oyster Mattress Ceremony Cease and Mel’s Shell North River, and on-line at www.peichasetheace.com.
“We’re out right here to assist our neighborhood,” Doiron mentioned. “I discover it startling that some individuals can be on the market attempting to hurt one thing that’s doing a lot good locally.”
