Police arrest four in Chicago lottery ticket scam

Comment #10

rdgrnr — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:07:06 GMT

That's right, it's called the pigeon drop. It's usually used with the ruse that they found a large sum of money and will share it with you if you put up some good faith money to show you can be trusted. It's amazing how people keep falling for it through the years.

Comment #9

Tenaj — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:40:05 GMT

It's an old scam, just with a lottery twist.

Comment #8

diamondpalace — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:37:03 GMT

They deserved it

Comment #7

Jordans121 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:16:20 GMT

Either people are getting really creative or people are getting more vulnerable. Which one

Comment #6

maringoman — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:30:30 GMT

I am tired of feeling sorry for the elderly who are smart enough to know that when the deal is too good then something is not right. I mean, they are not small children who dont know better. The criminals should be charged but also the people who get scammed should start using their brains.

Comment #5

HaveABall — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:47:21 GMT

The article indicated: The suspects would approach a victim two at a time and explain they were illegal immigrants and had a winning lottery ticket of more than one million dollars.

Isn't this kindness personified. Possibly one illegal resident, helping another? Now that's truly SHARING the luck. People who were resourceful enough to enter the good 'ole U.S.A. illegally prove that they are able to help themselves to what they want repeatedly.

Also, it's an alarming cost comment #1 about p... [ More ]

Comment #4

PERDUE — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:01:29 GMT

All of these bass-tards need to be stuck under a Mexican jail and not see the light of day for the next million years.

Times are hard as hell and these greedy puppies want to prey on folks who are already living on limited funds?!!!

Hanging is too good for them. Make them pay!!! Make them pay

Comment #3

TnTicketlosers — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:34:59 GMT

And it's most of the time the people from another country....Let me go somewhere and do that and I would be deheaded...but not here.

Comment #2

Kidzmom — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:23:53 GMT

NC needs to open up an investigation on the new owners of the corner country store to get them also. I've reported what happened to me there to the NC authorities but I guess they will need more compliaints before they look into it. I bought 6 Pick 3 tickets there, and only received 5 back. Now they charged me $6 for the tix. I never left the counter and I counted my tickets out right there. I even told him what number was missing ! The guy swore he gave me 6, and I told him, I never left away f... [ More ]

Comment #1

Raven62 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:13:30 GMT

Prey on the weak: Meet the Strong Arm of the Law!

The sad thing is: For every Criminal put in Jail: It Costs the Tax Payers $50,000/yr to keep them there

Police arrest four in Chicago lottery ticket scam

Lottery Post — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:53:16 GMT

Police arrested two men and two women earlier this week who allegedly ran a lottery ticket scam that targeted elderly Hispanic victims.

The four worked as a team and typically sought out elderly Hispanic victims at stores and on the street, according to a release from the Chicago Police.

The suspects would approach a victim two at a time and explain they were illegal immigrants and had a winning lottery ticket of more than one million dollars. They would then offer to share the winnings if... [ More ]