Win Cash Prizes Just for Saving

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By Chanelle Bessette

When Wesley Villafane, a health care worker from San Francisco, decided to open a prize-linked savings account, he was just trying to find a better way to get his money to work for him.

“I wanted to try another aspect of banking out because my normal bank interest rates were not giving me any significant returns,” he said.

2020’s low bank rates meant he wasn’t earning much interest on his regular accounts, so Villafane decided to go with a lottery-style savings app called Yotta. The app enters its customers into weekly cash prize drawings in exchange for saving money and referring others to the app.

For a while Villafane only won very small amounts — less than a dollar — in the drawings. Then, the Monday before Thanksgiving, he got the news. He had won $2,500.

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