Nigerian lottery scammer sentenced to 14 years

Comment #23

myturn — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:30:52 GMT

These scams demonstrate why lotteries should be legal, if we didn't have legal lotteries, more money would be spent on illegal lotteries. Prohibition did not work with alcohol, it is not working with drugs, and it will not work with lotteries.

Comment #22

myturn — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:24:18 GMT

I can't understand why people still fall for this scam? How can there still be a person on the planet who is not aware of these scams? While I feel sorry for people who are duped, part of me would like to shake them and scream, don't be so stupid! .

Comment #21

KKLK$DAY7 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:49:52 GMT

Too funny...YOU were fasifying information? No chit, wonder what he call his act of trying to scam you.

Comment #20

LckyLary — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:52:02 GMT

That stinks! How's he going to pay me the 10 million British Pounds Sterling I won if he's in the clink

Comment #19

buttercake — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:24:15 GMT

He should have got life with the possibility of parol, as most of his gullible victims are paying the price for the rest of their lives, even though he has been asked to pay back all his victims, he isn't going to do that am sure he's going to declare himself bankrupt

Comment #18

tnhope — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:04:53 GMT

so long.....

Comment #17

Colt45ML — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:04:04 GMT

Nigerians have to be the all time, world champions of low level scamming. Back in the 80s, before the internet, I swear the cops in Atlanta would arrest 3or 4 a week on charges related to stolen credit cards and such. Amusers and decievers of the highest order for the most part.

Comment #16

TnTicketlosers — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:02:21 GMT

Very well said.Wish they would start here and get these directors in our own state lotteries.It would be a happy state in Tennessee.We would throw a lottery party.

Comment #15

kapla — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:21:34 GMT

Thats GREAT

Comment #14

Mark Haigh — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:38:45 GMT

It's interesting to see their actual success rate is so low. They must have sent out billions of emails over the years to scam just 52 people. So I find it somewhat reassuring that so few people were convinced.

Comment #13

LANTERN — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:37:02 GMT

Greed might often be the main motivation.

Comment #12

PERDUE — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:43:28 GMT

That was very creative of you.

Never would've thought of this myself.

The player got played. Su Weet.........

Comment #11

HaveABall — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:22:57 GMT

Well, I wouldn't wish DIMENTIA or ALZHEIMERS disease on anyone, however perhaps the phrase, Walk a mile in their footsteps, would provide you [and people who confusedly think like you in respect to this issue] with true realization. Many of these folks don't have income for admittance into a facility that would open their mail on their well-being behalf.

It is the ultimate insult for our country's few income tax payers to be paying for prison terms for thieves. In answer to an earlier member... [ More ]

Comment #10

hjones — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:00:39 GMT

I tried to trick one of those morons by photocopying an actual Western Union sheet and photocopying false info into it. It looked pretty realistic, so I sent it to him. Apparently he brought it to the Western Union office in (where ever the hell he was) and tried to cash it. I think the shop owner told him to get out of his office, since he then emailed me back complaining to the hilt about falsifying my info.

Sucker.

Comment #9

maringoman — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:03:05 GMT

I used to feel sorry for victims of these scams then I stopped.

I realized that it's their desperation and greed that makes them victims.

And being senior citizens, they should know much better than that.

I have recieved numerous emails about being a recipient of USD 50,000,000 and I'm mad broke but I have never fallen for those.

I'm glad though that the scambug from Nigeria was arrested. I hope they get more of them and throw them in US jail...but thats like a raise hahaha I'm serio... [ More ]

Comment #8

dpoly1 — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:22:38 GMT

I wouldn't mind seeing some of the Scammers from Congress being incarcerated like this bum!

I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

George Mason

Co-author of the Second Amendment

during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788

Comment #7

louise black — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:13:15 GMT

It's time some of these scrum bags get what they deserves, maybe they should have silent him permantly. Ok, maybe that too much, but he need a longer prison term.

Comment #6

PERDUE — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:50:01 GMT

If he's in a state with the death penalty, I say fry the turkey. You want to send a strong message? It's called the process of elimination. Start eliminating the problem, I bet these vermin will think long and hard before they start scamming again. Jail time is an insult. First they scam the victims then they live on our tax dollars in prison for years.

NO!!!

EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE!!!! EXTERMINATE!!!! Dalek

Comment #5

temptustoo — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:35:19 GMT

should have been a longer sentence .. They spend a lot of man power to catch these guys..

Comment #4

Tenaj — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:32:31 GMT

Goody, Goody, I hope they catch all of them. I just can't figure out why these guys get away with this and why it's so hard to catch them. I watched a documentary of these types of scams and one African guy said they had a name for Americans (which I can't remember) but it equaled to ignorant easy pigeons.

Comment #3

sully16 — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:53:43 GMT

bye bye Tony, Hope they get your cohorts.

Comment #2

hearsetrax — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:37:16 GMT

one down the billion more to capture .....

personally I think they ought to chop off his thumbs

Comment #1

s5thomps — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:21:31 GMT

Tony won't get no MOORE money! I hope he serves the full prison term.

Nigerian lottery scammer sentenced to 14 years

Lottery Post — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:33:57 GMT

A Nigerian man who swindled three Californians out of more than $400,000 by demanding tax on bogus foreign lottery winnings was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in federal prison. The people who typically fall for such scams are older, sometimes people who have dementia and are lonely and need someone to talk to, an assistant U.S. attorney said.

One of Emmanuel I. Onwuzulike's victims, a San Fernando Valley woman, lost her home after she paid more than $368,000 for a phony tax on what she though... [ More ]