UPS worker busts up lottery scam

Oct 27, 2016, 8:57 pm (19 comments)

Scam Alert

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — An alert New York UPS employee is credited with saving an elderly Iowa woman from losing thousands of dollars in cash.

The worker called police on Tuesday when he felt something wasn't right about a package that had been delivered to the Union Road store. An investigation showed the box contained $8,300 and was sent from an 81-year-old Iowa woman. The woman got a phone call from someone claiming to be from the IRS and was told she needed to send the money to process a cash prize she had won in the Austrailan lottery.

What Daniel Dumesh, 26, of Holland Landing, Ontario didn't know, however, was that two Cheektowaga, New York, detectives were waiting for him in the back of the UPS store when he showed up to pick up the package.

Dumesh is charged with grand larceny and is being held on $25,000 bail at the Erie County Holding Center. Police will make sure the victim gets her money back.

Cheektowaga Police want to remind people to ignore all calls and requests to send cash or gift cards through the mail to prevent a potential similar incident from happening to them.

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

Evyy123

I live in Iowa, Why are all these big lottery scams happening in Iowa?I hope the Tipton brothers spend alot of time in prison.They are free now all the money they made from five state lottery's has keep them free for now.

Groppo's avatarGroppo

Good job UPS!

noise-gate

Quote: Originally posted by Groppo on Oct 27, 2016

Good job UPS!

Two detectives were waiting for Dumesh. Reminded me of  " How to catch a predator" where these guys show up at these locations hoping to nail an underage girl and Chris Hansen enters the picture and asks " what are you doing here? "...priceless. 

sanman$

Dumesh is one dumb crook!

plumsage's avatarplumsage

Best story I have heard all day.  Yay UPS driver!

LottoAce's avatarLottoAce

Good for the UPS employee!
one more lottery scam artist off the street.

Lotterologist's avatarLotterologist

What a dumesh.

helpmewin's avatarhelpmewin

Maybe someone should step in and start handling these Ole people money for them after they get a certain age it's obvious they can't seem to do it themselves.

HaveABall's avatarHaveABall

Quote: Originally posted by LottoAce on Oct 28, 2016

Good for the UPS employee!
one more lottery scam artist off the street.

I Agree!

Coin Toss's avatarCoin Toss

Quote: Originally posted by Evyy123 on Oct 27, 2016

I live in Iowa, Why are all these big lottery scams happening in Iowa?I hope the Tipton brothers spend alot of time in prison.They are free now all the money they made from five state lottery's has keep them free for now.

The OP says this was in NY.

Kingofearth's avatarKingofearth

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Oct 29, 2016

The OP says this was in NY.

The victim lives in Iowa but she sent the money to Buffalo where the perpetrator was gonna pick up the money.

Coin Toss's avatarCoin Toss

Quote: Originally posted by Kingofearth on Oct 29, 2016

The victim lives in Iowa but she sent the money to Buffalo where the perpetrator was gonna pick up the money.

Good eye, my faux pas.

sully16's avatarsully16

Glad it all worked out.

Bagent's avatarBagent

My thought is this - If I get a letter saying that I won a large amount of cash but need to send money to pay taxes or processing, I say if this is real, take the fees and taxes out of the winnings and send me the rest.  I don't have to pay anything.

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