Elderly woman loses $300K to Jamaican lottery scam

Comment #13

Stack47 — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:16:53 GMT

I average about 2 spam emails a week saying my email address won a prize in every lottery they can think up. And I get emails from bankers and widows of super rich people asking me to help them collect their money using my bank account .

While I feel genuinely sorry for the people getting conned, it's still their greed and ignorance that creates the problem.

Comment #12

HaveABall — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:33:11 GMT

It's a shame that most country's societies continue to teach folks that they are supposed to strive to have money left over to WILL to family or friends once they pass away. It would be good to circulate that folks shouldn't make this one of their important passing away goals.

As a related topic, it would be good if each city would issue a 1 month advanced notice reservation room and lethal liquid drink, that is easily consumed, painless, and 10 minute activated, $150 cremation, and mandator... [ More ]

Comment #11

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Comment #10

lottolaughs — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 01:37:46 GMT

Wonderful,wonderful post. Hope everyone reads this.

Comment #9

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Comment #8

PERDUE — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:27:50 GMT

Y'all must forgive me, but this story stirred me to the very essence of my being.

For years I worked with the elderly in the home environment and in facilities.

During those years at least 97% of the time I drove home with tears in my eyes.

Why?

Because I saw first hand and up close the cruelty of aging.

Physically, mentally, and socially.

During those years I seriously questioned everything I believed in.

My breaking point that made me call it quits was when I discovered my... [ More ]

Comment #7

dpoly1 — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:31:07 GMT

I try to check on my 86 year old Mom every DAY!

Check on your elderly parents often

Comment #6

stripesnsolids — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:39:41 GMT

So sad

Comment #5

jrosina — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:26:22 GMT

Perdue, is there anything we can do?, like at least write to the proper persons to light a fire under some one;

so this don't keep happening to Parent and grandparents. I am not privileged enough to have a grandparent or parent they are all gone they died sort of young except for my grandmother she outlived her daughter..I did take care of my mother and then my grandmother until the end...maybe that is why this story bothers me so much!! It should not just let die; like nothing has happened... [ More ]

Comment #4

PERDUE — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:00:27 GMT

It turns out Childers' mother had second-stage dementia.

The postal inspector says, if it's too good to be true, it probably is.

The Childers say you should check up on your parents' finances and go as far as monitor their phones.

The postal inspector says, if you receive a letter that looks like it could be a scam, then you should taker it to the post office and send it to the postal inspector.

The mom has stage 2 dementia. She should have had an overseer of her finances once... [ More ]

Comment #3

jrosina — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:04:24 GMT

Perdue, That is a sad commentary on Humanity!!! May the Law of retribution fall on those Ungodly people like ten Tons of Bricks, and they will shed bitter tears for this dastardly act

Comment #2

coolmoney — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:02:53 GMT

This is a TRAGEDY, the woman should have kept her money, with 300,000 dollars in the bank she was RICH according to many people today, she would have been better off leaving her family a legacy of $200,000 and living off the remaining $100,000. That would have at least helped the children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, at least they would have had something. It is a tragedy that Jamaicians got her money, this woman will NEVER see that money again.

Comment #1

PERDUE — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:28:25 GMT

So what is the FBI going to do about this growing trend? It seems they have an idea which rocks to look under but does nothing.

Taking the letters to the post office or to the postal inspectors is a joke. All those joke ers are going to say is throw it away. It is obvious the powers that be that can eradicate most of these scams deign not to intercede on behalf of the general public.

Once again it is the family members who can prevent these stories from becoming a commonplace in the headli... [ More ]

Elderly woman loses $300K to Jamaican lottery scam

Lottery Post — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:00:21 GMT

Includes video report

People ripped off by one scam could be targeted for dozens more. A database of easy targets is now being used by con-artists.

Stuart Childers said a stack of documents he showed WFTV Wednesday is paper trial of the hundreds of wire transfers his 75-year-old mother sent to scam artists.

She put it to us she wanted to leave a legacy, do something good for the family, Childer said.

Childers said his mother fell victim to a Jamaican lottery scam and gave the thi... [ More ]