FBI warns of Mega Millions lottery fraud

Comment #15

grwurston — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 02:23:36 GMT

Same as the scam email claiming something is wrong with your PayPal account, usually that someone else is making transactions on it. They want your name, address, B-day, SSN, and account number. What

Comment #14

msharkey2001 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 23:23:30 GMT

Another sure fire way to tell this is bogus is by the dozens of grammatical errors in the letters they send.

Comment #13

Bleudog101 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:52:05 GMT

I like 018; first three of my SSAN.

Years ago driving home from work was a car with 018 and three letters. Had warm fuzzies, said I need to play. I didn't and of course it came in 018

Comment #12

Raven62 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:39:28 GMT

Play: 018 081 108 180 801 810

Comment #11

sully16 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 02:43:40 GMT

Some people will fall for it, no ticket, no win.

Comment #10

MaximumMillions — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:05:00 GMT

Their inspiration was clear to me.

Comment #9

LottoAce — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:07:56 GMT

people have been running scams very similiar to this one for many years now.

I know a few people that got caught up in it.

anyone who playes the lottery knows that you do not have to secure the winnings

and the lottery office will never contact you if you win.

Comment #8

Get paid — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:56:44 GMT

It behoves me people still fall for the scam.Wiring money to receive winnings should be a red flag.Tell the scammers to take their money from the winnings,they will refuse then u tell them,FU.

Comment #7

Todd — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:53:24 GMT

Yes, it is common for a scammer to copy an image off the Internet. Well, not just common, it's universal. So it's good that the FBI released the exact image the scammers are using (the one in this article).

Comment #6

Raven62 — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:30:40 GMT

Interesting Story, but so is the fact that the same photo is in these stories:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/police-officer-sacked-not-shooting-black-man-virginia-stephen-mader-ronald-williams-a7245681.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/09/14/stephen-mader_n_12014950.html

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/west-virginia-cop-used-his-calm-voice-when-confronting-armed-man-and-was-fired-for-not-killing-him

Comment #5

Stack47 — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:18:27 GMT

Bodda Bing

Comment #4

Bleudog101 — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:13:37 GMT

Since those fake IRS callers got arrested in India a few weeks ago, the calls stopped. Look how fake the first page is, didn't know Mega Millions was an International lottery which the page says it is.

would love to get one of these letters though, kind of revenge for those lottery scammers scamming my late Dad.

Comment #3

rcbbuckeye — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:47:20 GMT

I used to work with a guy named Podulka. American born Navy vet Polish ancestry. Podulski is probably Polish.

Comment #2

RJOh — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:30:54 GMT

Mr. Ozi Podulski sounds Russian to me. Are they trying to interfere with our lotteries too

Comment #1

music* — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:29:06 GMT

Thankyou, goes to the FBI field office in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Those three young men with Official looking badges on look like they could be college graduates. They do not understand how powerful and efficient the FBI is when searching for someone. I wonder what kind of charges they are looking at when caught?

I guess that the usual caveat applies here. If you did not buy a ticket then you cannot win. You do not have to pay to collect on a winning ticket.

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FBI warns of Mega Millions lottery fraud

Lottery Post — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:16:04 GMT

The FBI's Atlanta office is warning of a scam involving the Mega Millions Lottery that uses the agency's name, as well as the name of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

People who are contacted receive very convincing fake letters that name the above agencies, and the recipients are told that they are lottery winners, FBI spokesman Stephen Emmett said. The advance-fee part of the scam begins by requiring the so-called winner to transfer, by wire, thousands of dollars to the lot... [ More ]