Canada police charge lottery 'winner' with fraud in ticket scam

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fbird — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:34:53 GMT

just goes to show you, that you can't trust those that you don't know !!

I would never hand a ticket to anyone that I did not know or trust....besides....I ALWAYS check on the lottery site first

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ThatScaryChick — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:45:28 GMT

I hope all these scammers get hit with a stiff penalty.

Canada police charge lottery 'winner' with fraud in ticket scam

Lottery Post — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:47:57 GMT

Canadian police accused a Toronto-area man who claimed a C$5.7 million (US$5.7 million) prize in a national lottery of fraud, the first charges in a year-long probe of Ontario lottery-ticket retailers.

Hafiz Zulwarnain Malik, 60, of Mississauga, Ontario, was charged with two counts of fraud and one count of theft over C$5,000 after cashing the winning ticket in January 2005. Police say the ticket actually belonged to a group of four people from the Toronto area who were defrauded out of thei... [ More ]