CRESTVIEW — A local man received an email saying he won $1,000 in a tax preparation company’s daily drawing, and almost hit the delete button.
Luckily for Joseph Farran, his wife Blanca and their daughters, Ariel, 11, and Bella, 8, he decided to check with his H&R Block tax preparer first.
It was no scam, Donna Fleming, manager of the company’s Northview Plaza office said. Farran was a winner in H&R Block’s “A Grand in Your Hand” promotion, in which 1,000 customers a day each receive $1,000.
“We’re going to pay some bills and take a family vacation,” Farran said. “We’re going to Clearwater with the kids and this will help fund it.”
When Fleming heard her client had won the daily drawing, she said she was as excited as he was.
“I was hollering around the office, and the rest of the staff was looking at me like I was crazy,” Fleming said. “We are so glad it was a local winner.”
“Usually someone in a small town doesn’t win these things,” Farran said. “Usually it’s Tampa or Orlando or New York or something.”
The nationwide “A Grand in Your Hand” promotion will continue for clients who file their taxes with H&R Block by Feb. 15 and receive Internal Revenue Service approval of their returns, Fleming said.
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