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South Africa has become hotbed of lottery fraudNews Story
South Africa has become a criminal base for 419 international lottery fraudsters attempting to defraud people from around the world by sending unsolicited emails of false winning notices.This was revealed by Uthingo Management Corporate Services Director Dawid Muller at the World Lottery Association Convention and Trade Show, which is taking place at the International Convention Centre in Durban this week.Muller also released a list of lottery scam organisations that have been attempting to defr
Nov 16, 2004, 8:43 am - Lottery News

Woman loses $5K in lottery ticket scamNews Story
It seemed like an easy way to make a lot of money.A Brentwood woman was offered $5,000 to cash in a winning lottery ticket. Instead, the woman lost more than $5,000 of her money, hoodwinked by con artists in a popular scam that often targets Spanish-speaking immigrants.The woman, who police identified only as about 35 years old and a Spanish speaker, was walking on Suffolk Avenue in Brentwood on Tuesday when she was approached by a Spanish-speaking woman who asked for help in locating an address
Oct 11, 2004, 5:58 pm - Lottery News

Teenager Shoplifts Winning Lottery TicketNews Story
A Swedish teenager who shoplifted a winning lottery ticket that could be worth as much as $1 million has discovered the truth in that old adage 'crime doesn't pay'.The 15-year-old boy stole the scrape-off lottery ticket from a grocery store outside the northeastern Swedish town of Oernskoeldsvik last week, local media reported Tuesday.When he went home and scraped the ticket, he discovered it contained a winning combination worth as much as $1 million.Store manager Patrik Nygren, however, recogn
Sep 1, 2004, 7:47 am - Lottery News

Elderly California woman loses $250,000 to foreign lottery scamNews Story
The elderly Lodi woman answered her telephone just like anyone else would.A voice at the other end told her she'd won a lottery and that she'd soon get the first check in the mail. When the check arrived and proved that the lottery was legitimate, she was to send back a check to pay the taxes on her winnings.But then the foreign check didn't clear the woman's bank -- after she'd already sent off a real check of her own. The lottery officials said something had gone wrong, and they'd get another
Aug 27, 2004, 7:31 am - Lottery News

Bookkeeper's lottery habit costlyNews Story
A Federal Way, Washington woman convicted of embezzling from a Monroe trust fund was sentenced to pay back what she stole, in $100 monthly installments.That means Dorothy L. Weber, 68, should be clear of her roughly $488,000 debt (plus about $61,000 in expenses) by early 2462.Weber was also sentenced to 14 months in prison for embezzling from the Northwest Sheet Metal Workers Organizational Trust for more than three years.Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wynne on Wednesday imposed th
Aug 26, 2004, 7:38 am - Lottery News

Ministers set on blocking rapist's £7m lottery winNews Story
Two ministers vowed yesterday to stop a convicted rapist receiving his 7 million lottery winnings but no one in Whitehall could say how.David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, said criminals in jail who scoop the jackpot or inherit wealth should not benefit from a single penny .Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary, whose department is responsible for lottery law, said the rapist, Iorworth Hoare, should not get the money and discussions were taking place to prdvent him from doing so. What we can do,
Aug 13, 2004, 8:48 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery unlikely for this termNews Story
Dont bet on buying a lottery ticket in North Carolina anytime soon.Gov. Mike Easley, who has advocated a lottery since before he took office in 2001, continues to push for a lottery. But even the primary supporter of a North Carolina lottery in the state House said it would not happen this year.The 2004 short session of the General Assembly is supposed to tackle the states budget and non-controversial issues, House Co-Speakers Richard Morgan, R-Moore, and Jim Black, D-Mecklenburg, have said.Its
May 17, 2004, 7:33 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner's dreams live on after his deathNews Story
Despite a troubled past, James Craig's family said he had started to turn his life around long before he struck it rich and won a $9.7 million Indiana Lotto jackpot earlier this year. My brother had been incarcerated for petty (non-violent) crimes, but he used that time to better himself in many ways; especially through education, which helped get him paroled three years ago, said Ruth Craig.Craig said her brother earned both associate and bachelor degrees in business while he was enrolled in t
May 10, 2004, 6:37 am - Lottery News

Beware of Phony Prize Promotions, Lottery Schemes, and Bogus E-mailsNews Story
By now, most people who use e-mail on a regular basis are quite familiar with the word spam and what it looks like in their e-mail in-box. If it wasn't frustrating enough to sort through and fill your trash with junk (postal) mail every day or answer unsolicited telemarketing calls during the dinner hour, now these nuisances and fraudulent schemes have found a new way into our homes and offices through e-mail.According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), consumers in the United States an
Mar 26, 2004, 9:22 am - Lottery News

Alleged high-tech roulette scam "easy to set up"News Story
An alleged high-tech roulette scam that saw three people walk out of a London casino with 1.3 million recently sounds too implausible even for a movie plot.But a physicist who developed a technology-based system that famously beat the wheel in the 1970s has told New Scientist that in theory it would have been fairly easy to carry out with a little know-how and the right tools.Two men and a woman were arrested on 16 March after raking in a huge win over two evenings. Suspicious casino staff are
Mar 25, 2004, 5:20 am - Lottery News