AARP Ohio Holiday Fraud Prevention Sweepstakes

As the season for giving approaches, don't let scammers take your holiday cheer. As you shop, share and celebrate this holiday season, stay scam smart. Find fraud prevention tips below, then enter our AARP Ohio Holiday Fraud Prevention Sweepstakes for your chance to win one of four $250 prizes.

Online holiday shopping is easy, fun and convenient. Here are four important ways to help stay safe online:

1. Always use strong, unique passwords for each online account you own. Investigate options for getting a free or low-cost password manager such as Bitwarden, Dashlane, or LastPass.

2. Set up multi-factor authentication when available as added security that goes beyond your username and password to verify that it’s you using your account or device.

3. Turn on automatic software updates to keep your devices up-to-date and secure.

4. Know that it's no longer safe to click on links from emails, texts, and online ads. Instead, type web addresses into your browser to ensure you aren’t sent to a copycat site and stick to sites you know and trust. Learn how to spot and avoid scams with AARP Fraud Watch Network™. Suspect a scam? Call our free helpline at 877-908-3360 and talk to one of our fraud specialists about what to do next.

Now that you have some tools for holiday shopping fraud awareness, enter for a chance to win one of four (4) $250! Don’t delay, enter TODAY! Or be sure to enter by December 15, 2025 at 11:59 pm ET.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to all legal residents of the fifty (50) United States/District of Columbia. Must be 18 years or older to enter. Only one (1) entry per individual. 

For official rules: Click HERE for the official rules

CLICK HERE TO ENTER sweepstakes!

*AARP is sponsoring a Fraud Prevention Sweepstakes, "Spring into Fraud Prevention." NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to legal residents of (50) United States/District of Columbia. Must be 18 years or older to enter. Only one (1) entry per individual. Click HERE to enter. Official Rules Below.

The AARP Ohio Holiday Fraud Prevention 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 Ohio Holiday Fraud Prevention Sweepstakes (“Promotion”) takes place between 12:00AM ET, October 26, 2025 through 11:59PM ET December 15, 2025  (“Promotion Period”).  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  the fifty (50) United States/District of Columbia, 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 one (4) Grand Prize Sweepstakes (“Grand Prize Sweepstakes”). To enter the Grand Prize Sweepstakes, visit the AARP® Ohio AARP Ohio Holiday Fraud Prevention Sweepstakes webpage, https://events.aarp.org/rZQ5l0 between 12:00AM ET, October 26, 2025 through 11:59PM ET December 15, 2025; and completely fill out the Official Entry Form provided by Administrator’s representatives on the website, including entering first name, last name, Email, zip code and phone number. 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 December 16, 2025, at approximately 1pm ET, 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 form, Administrator or its representative will announce the winner. The entrants whose entry form has been drawn must provide proper identification. The Administrator or its representative will verify that each winner with proper identification matches 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 a Sweepstakes Winner.

• Prizes: Four Sweepstakes Winners will receive $250 in Visa Gift Cards. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”) of each Prize: $250. 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 winner. 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 30, 2025, to AARP Winner’s List, AAPR Ohio, 41 South High Street, Suite 3550, Columbus, Ohio 43215. 

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

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