N.Y. man lost $100,000 in lottery scam

Comment #13

Instyle — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:55:14 GMT

I just don't get it. Why do people fall for theses scams. You hear about them all the time. I've gotten on or two of them myself and emailed back saying go to XQS !!! I feel so sorry for the people the fall for this. its a shame.

Comment #12

dallascowboyfan — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:32:29 GMT

We need to make sure were looking over our Parents Grandparents so they don't get taken advantage of by theses scums

Comment #11

Simba774 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:51:16 GMT

You cannot win something you did not play! If something does not make sense at all, then why believe it is real? Mr. Killian should have asked his family to check out the email. I remember my aunt once got a check in the mail and it looked legit. She was going to cash it, but then she decided to go to the bank and the bank told her if she would have cashed that check she would've had to pay back all that money back and it was money she did not have.

Comment #10

duckman — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:02:48 GMT

Next to the work-at-home opportunity emails (all are scams) this is one of the most common ploys to steal your money.

Bottom line: one should never have to pay out anything to receive lottery winnings. period. no exceptions.

Treat ALL unsolicited emails as scams.

Comment #9

Stack47 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:37:18 GMT

I started saving all the scam spam I get the first of the year just to see how many. Right now it's 60 counting the widows and children with a husband or father who was the financial minister of an African country that died in very strange accidents. I sort of can understand how someone could believe they won an email lottery, but who in the right mind would send money for various things when it could be deducted from the winnings.

Most but not all victims are elderly, the obvious prey and I... [ More ]

Comment #8

mcginnin56 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:48:29 GMT

You can never be to young to learn these important phone etiquette skills. Excellent that you are teaching your kid's these important lessons

Comment #7

maximumfun — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:32:34 GMT

I give telemarketer calls to my g'kids and let them practice 'phone etiquette' with them and the 'house rules' (no personal information given out, be polite, deflect any questions that are answered with truthful yet evasive answers - as its none of their business).

They still get LOTS of practice. Eventually the child will come back and tell me that the rude (man/woman/machine/person) hung up on them; I assure them that they will get another call to practice with, and the child goes away hap... [ More ]

Comment #6

dpoly1 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:40:55 GMT

We only speak English! That is the funny part.

Comment #5

rad242 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:57:07 GMT

Que? Que? Que? NO ingles. NO entiendo

Comment #4

dpoly1 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:54:50 GMT

I tell my Mom to tell the thugs that she doesn't speak or understand English and then hang up the phone

Comment #3

Lucky SOB — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:53:28 GMT

if he does get his money back you can bet the govt will want a piece for all their hard work.

Comment #2

mcginnin56 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:35:33 GMT

One of the oldest E-mail scams out there. If it sounds to good to be true..........

Comment #1

rad242 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:30:40 GMT

I do not open JUNK MAIL....period

N.Y. man lost $100,000 in lottery scam

Lottery Post — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:24:07 GMT

A Saratoga County, New York, man may have lost more than $100,000 in an international email-based scheme that used fraudulent IRS forms to dupe victims into believing they'd won a multi-million dollar lottery but needed to pay fees to collect their winnings.

A 14-month investigation by the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration uncovered a trail of email and bank accounts that led to European suspects who had obtained credit card and bank account information for an unknown num... [ More ]