New twist on foreign lottery scheme

Comment #8

jamella724 — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 12:02:08 GMT

Scammers are really abhorrent. They take advantage of innocent people. People should be smart enough not to fall for their schemes. As a player we should be reminded that if we didn't purchase a ticket, there is no way we are able to win a lottery game.

Comment #7

LottoLucy — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:30:31 GMT

I am curious...does the credit union or a bank get involved with that at all? Do they explain it is a scam or can they deny the customer the right to their money when illegal activity is suspected? Thanks in advance for any insight you can offer.

Comment #6

LottoLucy — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:21:01 GMT

Sometimes it isn't greed or immaturity but desperation or a real desire to help people that gets some of the elderly caught up in these situations. There was a case in Maryland where and elderly gentleman had exhausted all avenues for being able to care for his ill wife at home and got caught up in one of these schemes because the money promised to him would have allowed him to hire help and not have to place her in a nursing home.

Also, I witnessed something at our local 7-11 last year. An e... [ More ]

Comment #5

RJOh — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 06:55:30 GMT

Some people never grow up, they were given gifts freely with no strings attached by Santa Claus when when they were a child and they still think somebody wants to give them something for nothing now that they have grown up.

Comment #4

noise-gate — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 05:24:08 GMT

Right about that. The sad thing is these people have no shame.

I avoid any so called winner's phone call where it starts out with the words Congratulations - use those words on me when l have a legitimate check in my hands, anything other than that. ..forget it.

Comment #3

CLETU$ — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:37:31 GMT

I think it was P.T.Barnum that said There's a sucker born every minute. Don't be a sucker.If you never played a foriegn lottery,you didn't win a foriegn lottery.

Comment #2

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:23:32 GMT

They pry themselves on the elderly. We had a elderly member come in the credit union with a Lottery Check for $40,000 he had to send them $39,500.

Comment #1

Coin Toss — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:24:13 GMT

Creeps like this prey upon the greed of their marks.

People need to realize you are not going to win a lottery or sweepstakes you did not buy a ticket or an entry for.

This one sounds especially wicked as it's a combination lottery scam / Ponzi scheme.

New twist on foreign lottery scheme

Lottery Post — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:59:47 GMT

There's a new twist to an old scheme that continues to lure people in. Con-artists have come up with one more way to deceive potential victims of foreign lottery scams.

U.S. Postal Inspector Michael Larson said, He explained to me... I mean who doesn't dream of winning the lottery? He was contacted and told you have won the lottery and in order to collect that prize money you need to pay the taxes to get it out of the country and to the us.

The victim sent the money. In fact, he sent all... [ More ]