Federal officials work to extradite Jamaican lottery scammers

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KY Floyd — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:06:26 GMT

Sorry, but that's one of the most ridiculous ideas I've heard in a long time. The scam works because people are being offered a lot of money and they want that money. It's that simple.

As near as I can figure there are two ways to keep the scam from working. One is to educate everybody, so they'll realize it's a scam. The other is to make everybody stop wanting easy money. What I can't figure out is a way to make either of those happen.

Comment #5

Teddi — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:38:06 GMT

I'm not seeing how any all access subscription service would prevent this scam from happening. The people who fall for the Jamaican lottery scam don't have an access issue, they have a greed and/or stupidity issue.

Someone calls them up and says they've won a lottery in Jamaica (even though most of these people have never even left the US much less gone to Jamaica). Then they're told that in order for them to collect their winnings, they most first pay the taxes owed on it. After the first p... [ More ]

Comment #4

Bleudog101 — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:44:07 GMT

Your last sentence is what I've been harping on for years...let anyone play subscriptions to any state that offers them...there aren't that many that do. As for me, still waiting for my Mass. Brother to mail me my Powerball subscription. The sale ends 2 JAN 16 and you get seven weeks free. No other state comes close to that deal, no wonder Massachusetts lottery is so successful.

Comment #3

myturn — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 12:14:04 GMT

One of the best way to stop such scams is to replace them with legal options. While some will always fall for scams, if it is easier for people to participate in transparent lotteries, we are much less lightly to be taken in by scams.

If we were able to play state lotteries by subscription online without laws, state or federal, getting in the way, scams would be far less successful.

Comment #2

Teddi — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:00:07 GMT

How very naive you are. Not to mention puerile. This is the real world not a Michael Bay film.

The fact is that every sovereign nation has the right to deny an extradition request, even if it's from the US and the US can't do a thing about it. Just think of all the countries that flat out refused to hand murderers over to the US until the death penalty was taken off the table, and what has the DoJ always done? Taken the death penalty off the table. Because they have no choice. The US justice... [ More ]

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music* — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:28:32 GMT

motto: Do not mess with the U.S. Department of Justice. They have long memories and long arms.

If the DOJ can not get you then they send the U.S. Armed Forces after you.

Federal officials work to extradite Jamaican lottery scammers

Lottery Post — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 18:27:10 GMT

Jamaican lottery scammer Sanjay Williams got off a plane in Charlotte, North Carolina, in June 2013, on his way to meet with the people who moved money for him. He was promptly arrested by U.S. law enforcement authorities, convicted in May and sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. prison.

While the arrest on American soil spared authorities from extraditing Williams, rounding up his associate in the wide-ranging operation and 13 other suspects still believed to be in Jamaica is proving to be more o... [ More ]