Alabama woman gets money back from lottery scam

Comment #6

HaveABall — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:34:04 GMT

I think that people DO have moral outrage when their lives are being ruined due to them giving their money to an 'electronic thief.' However, it probably costs more money to hire these HUGE government teams of computer professionals/prior electronic thieves to draw these thieves out. I notice that the article indicated that billions of dollars are stolen from individuals each year (I presume that is $100+ here, $100+ there), yet since 1988 only millions have been retrieved.

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Comment #5

jeffrey — Tue, 25 May 2010 04:58:11 GMT

I'm tired of hearing about people starving because some punks took their savings. Make the punishment fit the crime. Bread and water and hard labor in Death Valley, hopefully with their cohorts/family beside them. Make the rest think twice about hurting people just because you can. I don't understand why there isn't more private justice for these SOBs. Don't people have moral outrage at their lives being ruined? ie Enron and Madoff

Comment #4

dpoly1 — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:57:45 GMT

I am glad that she got money back!

These Canadian predators sent one of their letters to my son.

The Canadian government does little to stop this!

We should go after them

Comment #3

rdgrnr — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:39:33 GMT

I'm glad to hear some of these guys are getting caught and people are getting money back but what I'd really like to hear is that the perps are doing serious time for it. If they don't get hard time when caught, the crime will just continue. They have to make it not worth the risk.

Comment #2

sully16 — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:52:29 GMT

Good for her.

Comment #1

konane — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:13:58 GMT

Good for her .... she's very fortunate to get anything back.

Alabama woman gets money back from lottery scam

Lottery Post — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:56:28 GMT

An Alabama woman recently got $16,800 back after a joint U.S. and Canadian investigation into fraudulent telemarketers who represented themselves as lottery officials.

The Alabama resident, whose name was not released, got her money back on May 14, according to a press release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

A multi-agency U.S-Canada initiative called Project COLT was responsible for helping return the money.

Many variations exist on the lottery scams, according to