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Lottery numbers company ordered to refund customersNews Story
A Buffalo, New York, company that claims to sell booklets of winning lottery numbers must make full refunds to any Iowa consumer who requests a refund, and the company has been permanently prohibited from selling any goods or services in Iowa.Multi-Plays of America, Inc., makes phone pitches that they are producing winning numbers in different lotteries across the country every month. According to a telephone script, Multi-Plays tells consumers, We cycle in our scientific formula, and that
Jun 20, 2005, 4:39 pm - Lottery News

Lottery Phone Scam Continues to Snare VictimsNews Story
It can be so easy to get pulled into the trap of a lottery phone scam.It sounds so enticing just send them a few thousand dollars to cover the taxes and you rake in hundreds of thousands.But what sounds too good to be true, is. So, why are so many folks falling for it? You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payment of $450,890 Congratulations. That letter, with a handwritten address on the envelope, had a Dandridge, Tennessee woman celebrating. I started reading it, was real excited
Jun 15, 2005, 1:42 pm - Lottery News

Unclaimed lottery winnings scam targets elderlyNews Story
Oregon State Police plan to announce today that they are investigating a scam targeting the elderly that promises large unclaimed lottery winnings from two fictitious Salem companies.The scam has claimed at least seven victims in Georgia, Florida, California and Pennsylvania who combined have lost about $30,000, Detective Rich Dennis of the Oregon State Police said Wednesday.Here's how the scam works: A letter arrives in the mail on letterhead from fake Salem firms Golden Lotto Mega Bucks or Top
Jun 9, 2005, 10:30 am - Lottery News

Lottery scam victimizes Colorado womanNews Story
Ever heard the cliche you don t get something for nothing?A few months ago Rebecca Jones received a piece of paper in the mail inviting her to enter a free lottery drawing. All Jones had to do was fill out her name, phone number and address, then send it back, she said.A few weeks later she received a letter announcing she had won $1.2 million, but would have to pay about $3,700 in taxes and surcharges, she said.Jones said she received a $3,900 check in the mail with instructions to cash it and
May 20, 2005, 10:57 am - Lottery News

Embattled lottery pyramid scheme slammed by Australian courtNews Story
World Games Inc. (WGI), a loosely-based international company that has been on the run from legal authorities around the world for several years, was found to be in violation of the 1974 Trade Practices Act by the Australia Full Federal Court for organizing an international lottery pyramid scheme.The court's ruling was directed at Gold Coast company Worldplay Services Pty. Ltd., a corporate entity that is tightly coupled with WGI.The decision also upheld that Greg Kennedy, the company s director
May 10, 2005, 8:57 am - Lottery News

Another scam victim regrets his mistakesNews Story
Dale E. Gilbert wants people to learn from his mistakes. He wants them to know how he got scammed in a lottery deal. Papers in hand, Gilbert laid out the evidence. Now he owes a local bank nearly $1,000.It started when he received an official looking notice from Euromillones loteria International of Spain that he had won money from a lottery.The letter detailed the winning ticket number, serial number, and lottery numbers which had allowed Gilbert to win over $1.3 million in cash.Gilbert was as
Mar 24, 2005, 11:21 am - Lottery News

NY woman loses $25,000 through phone lottery scamNews Story
A 71-year-old Clarkstown, New York woman was cheated out of $25,000 through a phony telephone lottery scam, Clarkstown police said yesterday.A caller told the woman in early November that she had won the $300,000 Canadian lottery and could collect the money after paying taxes, police said.The woman sent $1,500 to a Chicago address through Western Union. The scammers made follow-up calls and she made 19 payments to various people over the next two months, bringing the total to $25,000, police sai
Jan 5, 2005, 10:09 am - Lottery News

'El Gordo' Lottery Scams Target ElderlyNews Story
Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging Nora Dowd Eisenhower today warned older Pennsylvanians to beware of an international lottery scam that adopts the name of Spain's largest lottery prize, El Gordo. The actual El Gordo drawing was conducted on Dec. 22 and awarded more than $2.4 billion in prizes to Spanish citizens who had purchased tickets. El Gordo is a bona-fide holiday season lottery for Spanish citizens, but the e-mails and letters being received by consumers in the United States telling them
Jan 4, 2005, 1:21 pm - Lottery News

Thailand gambling tycoon gets 6 years in jail for rigging the lotteryNews Story
Five men including Klom Bang Kruai, a gambling tycoon from Nonthaburi, have been sentenced to six years in jail for rigging the lottery in Thailand.The Criminal Court found Somtrakul Jomkrathok, Kittichart Kulpradit, Narong Unpaet alias Klom Bang Kruai, a lottery bookmaker in Nonthaburi, Suriyan Duangkaew, and Pichai Thep-arak, a tycoon from Lop Buri, together with other suspects still at large rigged lottery results of the Government Lottery Office and the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural
Dec 30, 2004, 9:01 am - Lottery News

Texas Couple Loses $14,000 In Lottery ScamNews Story
The Upshur County Sheriff's Department is the last place Thomas McRee, 77, expected to be Monday morning after Christmas. He was there to sort out the mess that has cost him more than all of his life savings.It all began last month with a letter to his wife, Barbara, from an Australian lottery company. It said they were the lucky winners of the Oz 6/45 lottery. Their share of the winnings: $800,000.Oz sent the McRees a check for more than $14,000 and then asked the couple to send almost that f
Dec 28, 2004, 9:45 am - Lottery News