Postal agents intercept, destroy fake lottery checks

Comment #18

chrissy16 — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:22:36 GMT

Coin Toss,

One of their main objectives is fidning people that really think thye've won a lottery they don't even have a ticket for.

I think you might have meant finding.

I think we all knew what he meant, try not to be so critical because as you can see, even you make mistakes.

Comment #17

belle$star3! — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 05:59:37 GMT

I am glad that these good for nothing creeps got caught and they should be thrown into prison. I have no mercy on these low-down dirty liars. A friend of mine got scammed last year and when this friend showed me the check, I said this is a scam and take it to the police, and that did not happen. I told this good friend of mine that this chek is fake and it ended up he lost his hard earned money from his bank account and had to start all over again.

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Comment #16

TNPATL — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:37:33 GMT

Good job catching these letters

Comment #15

DDOH937 — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:15:17 GMT

When i first heard of these scams in the late 1990's/early 2000's, my intial response was quite similar to the views expressed on here. How could i win a lottery that i never entered in a country i never visited? Pretty basic assumption right?......Until i recently found out how highly sophisticated some of these scammers are. Some are pretty basic and stupid which no one should ever fall for, but there are some that blows the mind. For example, there is a part of these scams that involve overse... [ More ]

Comment #14

sully16 — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:17:44 GMT

Glad to hear they are on the ball.

Comment #13

Todd — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 12:07:38 GMT

If you look at the letters they are flashing in the video, you'll see they are marked with the Mega Millions logo, not a foreign lottery. The return address is in the USA too, so it makes sense (from the scammer's perspective) to put USA postage on it.

Comment #12

KY Floyd — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:56:44 GMT

Each letter is stuffed in a pre-addressed envelope and many envelopes are stamped with American postage.

Um, right. If there's one thing that will help convince me I won a foreign lottery I never entered it's a notification letter that doesn't come from that country.

It's amazing how gullible people can be when you tell them you want to give them a million dollars.

Comment #11

RedStang — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 06:18:09 GMT

I would say make the Banks responsible, but we all know if they could earn a profit they would rip us off too.

Comment #10

sandia — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 01:44:07 GMT

If the elderly ever fell for such, I could sympathize. They are vulnerable. The younger generation, should know better than that.

Comment #9

Teddi — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:14:59 GMT

Actually no, I can't. I work way too hard for the money I have to blindly give it away. If I was that desperate to believe I'd won, their check would have to clear first.

No African royal should need my help and no lottery should be trying to throw money at me without me needing to present them with proof.

This reminds me of Nicholas Cage in Matchstick Men. People are just wanting to be scammed.

Comment #8

Teddi — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:02:09 GMT

Thanks CT, yes, I meant country I've never visited.

I travel outside the U.S. for vacations and I've never been in a situation I needed to provide my US mailing address except to customs. So if I came home to a letter saying I'd won money, my first thought would be how did they get my address.

Let's even pretend I was partying so hard I don't remember entering into a game, what kind of lottery doesn't need proof that you are the rightful winner? Even church raffles require you to present... [ More ]

Comment #7

Coin Toss — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 23:28:35 GMT

Teddi,

How can I win a prize I never entered based in a country I've visited from a lottery I've never heard of?

I think you might have meant a country you've never visited.

Anyway, that's how these creeps operate, they bring people's greed to the surface and then strike like a snake.

One of their main objectives is fidning people that really think thye've won a lottery they don't even have a ticket for.

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Comment #6

Drenick1 — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:46:29 GMT

These people pray on the elderly and the desperate. It is a shame they have gotten away with so much.

Comment #5

chrissy16 — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:24:03 GMT

Teddi, I couldn't agree more. I guess some people for whatever reason could still be duped. I am just glad that those letters were destroyed. Could you imagine being taken for thosands of dollars, horrific.

Comment #4

Teddi — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:03:16 GMT

What would it entail to get a copy of the scam letter? I really have to see one because I cannot think of a single thing it could say to be convincing enough to be a billion dollar industry. Admittedly, I couldn't understand how anyone could fall for the Nigerian scam, but since then I would have expected the general public to be more wary. Off the bat I'd have too many questions for me to buy into this.

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Comment #3

HaveABall — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:10:20 GMT

Apparently not, mightwin, if this has been a billion dollar industry for several years.

Comment #2

mightwin — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:07:14 GMT

You think people would realize that some things are to good to be true

Comment #1

hearsetrax — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 19:29:14 GMT

well glad to see thar on the ball

Postal agents intercept, destroy fake lottery checks

Lottery Post — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:14:01 GMT

Includes video report

Instead of sending foreign lottery letters and checks directly to you from Canada, Jamaica, Costa Rica or Mexico, more and more, scammers are sending big batches of letters in a box, to middlemen in the United States.

Each letter is stuffed in a pre-addressed envelope and many envelopes are stamped with American postage. The return addresses are typically just a private mailing center in an American city. The person who picks up the box may hand it off to yet another