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jarasan — Tue, 22 May 2007 22:56:02 GMT

Culpeper Va. area code is 540. Not much to say other than, it's a shame they can't be taken out of business in a painful way. Wonder if the guys running the show up there in Canada are named Terence or Philip

Citizen, officer expose check lottery scam

Lottery Post — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:23:00 GMT

After a Virginia resident reported a check lottery scam he received through the mail, Lt. Troy Steele thought he would give the scam artist a call.

Sitting from his desk at the Culpeper Police Department, in front of this reporter, Steele called Patrick La Pierre from HKJC Lotteries to find out what he would need to do to obtain his winnings of $125,000.

The winnings are supposedly from a Hong Kong Lottery but the person taking all phone calls related to the scam has a Canadian area code.