I had a call this afternoon from a very perky recording telling me that my online ballot was drawn and I’d won a vacation worth about $2400.� All I had to do was press 0 to learn more.

Should you�receive one of these calls you should hang up.� Immediately.� Whatever you do, do not press 0.� Or any other button.� Let’s repeat that:

DO NOT PRESS 0 OR ANY OTHER BUTTON.

Pressing 0 will basically grant them the ability to fraudulently charge your phone bill.

How do I know that I really didn’t win a big vacation?� Well, it was an autodialer calling with a pre-recorded announcement that didn’t say who they were.� And, they were calling my Bell phone number which I keep around as a backup to my VoIP line — I don’t use it for anything else.� And my parents mentioned that they had the same thing call them up at the cottage.

So, just hang up on it.� And check your phone bill closely next time it arrives.