$25M lottery scam aimed at elderly busted

Comment #5

HaveABall — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:01:57 GMT

Wow, I wonder if these U.S.-Based (Name List) Brokers should be penalized for selling their wealthy U.S.A. elderly name lists to outside-of-U.S.A. customers. If not, perhaps we should make that a law here in the U.S.A. I wonder if there will be any penalties.

I wonder if these Israelis stole money from their Jewish brethren who live or are citizens of the U.S.A.

I wonder if there will be any penalties to these Israelis.

Comment #4

vessie1024 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:52:08 GMT

These people are simply some low down dirty DOGS

Comment #3

ThatScaryChick — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:10:56 GMT

I'm glad they were shut down.

Comment #2

Grovel — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:28:56 GMT

I remember when someone claming to be a credit card company called and said they got all my personal information from my bank. They wanted me to confirm the information, by giving them my social security number and birthday. I told them to **** off.

Comment #1

dcaros — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:12:26 GMT

IF IT SOUNDS TO GOOD RUN;SOUNDS LIKE THE CHECK SCAM

FROM INTERNET CASH THIS CHECK 10000 AND SEND ME 2000

TWOWEEKS LATER THE BANK TELL YOU ITS NO GOOD

$25M lottery scam aimed at elderly busted

Lottery Post — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:51:54 GMT

The feds on Tuesday dismantled an Israeli boiler-room operation that conned elderly U.S. victims out of $25 million by telling them they'd won a sweepstakes lottery.

A dozen members of the international telemarketing ring were named in a three-count fraud indictment handed up yesterday in Manhattan Federal Court.

Prosecutors say ring members bought more than 185,000 names from U.S.-based brokers to find victims to dupe into turning over hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to claim the... [ More ]