Scammers using social media accounts claiming to be lottery winner Mavis Wanczyk

Comment #37

Soledad — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 20:25:57 GMT

I don't use social media accounts because I don't want to get into random arguments with strangers. When I was a kid once my brother told me to look out the window. I said why what's out there. He said there's a giant pink elephant. When I looked and didn't see a giant pink elephant, he called me gullible. That's my lesson to anyone believing scammers. Don't look for giant pink elephants.

Comment #36

Bleudog101 — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 19:58:44 GMT

Thanks music*. Math will never be my forte and envy those like yourself that can figure things like this out.

Was contemplating a trip to Tahoe shortly...but I think I'll stay put. Thinking of you guys with that huge fire in the LA area.

Comment #35

music* — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 15:38:39 GMT

Bleudog101, Here is something to help you calculate the end result after you pay all taxes owed to the IRS. But it does not count your State taxes.

For example, use Power Ball's numbers for Wednesday 9/6/2017 Multiply the Cash Value by.604 $52,800,000.00 X .604 = $31,891,200.00

Why use .604? If you add .396 which is the total amount of Federal taxes to the .604 you will get 1 or 100%.

.396 is the same as 39.6% .604 is the same as 60.4% 39.6% + 60.4 % = 100 %.

Of course, you wil... [ More ]

Comment #34

Bleudog101 — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 11:21:30 GMT

Thank you for clarifying the tax situation. Never understood why more federal taxes were to be taken out AGAIN.

Too bad their Prez wouldn't change the law to benefit folks who are lucky enough to hit the big one.

Comment #33

Perfecttiming2 — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 18:55:27 GMT

Wow...

And I love that you were able to search out more info on the domain and the scammers are getting spammed

Comment #32

Perfecttiming2 — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 18:44:44 GMT

Exactly!

And remember, the winner still owes another 14.6% in taxes...

(only 25% in federal taxes are taken at the time of the win; total federal tax is 39.6

Comment #31

Artist77 — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 15:30:10 GMT

Yes, but she can do this after the fact. The lottery only withholds 25% for federal taxes so she is going to owe a lot more asap. I would offset it with contributions to charities, etc. to limit the remaining fed taxes owed.

Comment #30

Bleudog101 — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 21:55:06 GMT

Some guy had a thing on Facebook saying his system will win you the lottery (not Steve Player or that other FL fellows). I wrote and sure and I have a bridge for sale. That tipped me off that he was a foreign entity because he wrote back and didn't understand what I meant.

Sure miss those fake IRS calls, never 'lucked' out to receive any lottery ones.

Comment #29

Artist77 — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:00:30 GMT

Lol Use a fake name. Remember Comey was on twitter under a pseudonym.

Comment #28

dpoly1 — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:41:10 GMT

You have to wait until you file your tax return to mitigate your tax burden

Comment #27

Coin Toss — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:39:41 GMT

Re: Facebook,

If their is a shadow government (yeah, sure 'if') they don't have to put any effort into gathering dossiers of people on FB, those people have already don it for them.

Comment #26

Artist77 — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 12:24:22 GMT

You cannot claim with a trust or llc in a number if states. I don't think she was trying to play celebrity like Cynthia Stafford. Mavis just got too caught up in her win and should have said nothing more than she was thrilled and no one should contact me again after this press conference.

Comment #25

jjtheprince14 — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 11:16:40 GMT

Well this is what happens when your goal is to become a major international celebrity when you win a large jackpot. This idiot should have claimed under a trust or LLC if possible instead of trying to play Justin Bieber, Beyonc , etc.

Comment #24

mikeintexas — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 05:15:47 GMT

I was sending an email to an LP friend of mine just now and saw I had a new email in my spam folder.

Mavis Wanczyk Foundation test1@combinabpmnet.com

Re: Donation

Greetings To You,

My Name is Mavis wanczyk , the winner of the Power ball jackpot of $ $758.7 million in the AUGUST 24, 2017, My jackpot was a gift from God to me hence my Entire family/foundation has AGREED to do this. My foundation is donating $500,000.00USD to you. please contac maviswanczyk123@gmail.com for

Comment #23

noise-gate — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:27:13 GMT

That too. The other thing that gets to me is seeing pedestrians crossing at a stoplight with their faces buried in their phones along with headphones , totally oblivious to their surrounding. What if a driver loses their brakes? I can't recall the last time l saw anyone walking across an intersection and being aware of where they were.

Went off on the dirt road a lil..sorry.

Comment #22

rcbbuckeye — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:06:34 GMT

Reminds me of a guy at work (who came here from Afghanistan when he was a young teen) who loves FB.

I asked him one day why in the world would you want to tell the whole world all about yourself? He just shrugged.

Fact is, he's a freaking social butterfly. Always talking about his new car, his new refrigerator, he never shuts up.

Comment #21

noise-gate — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:28 GMT

The problem we have with some people, is that they simply have to tell the world everything about themselves, going on FB,or wherever, contacting people, letting them know their likes dislikes.Loving chinese food, tangy beef broccoli, wonton soup and the rest of that crap that is served out there. Oh yeah, letting people know that they going on vacation: Hey thieves, we will be away for three weeks, starting on the 8th,please ransack our home. Who needs to know all that? It makes people a target... [ More ]

Comment #20

Artist77 — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:52:01 GMT

Great ideas

Comment #19

Artist77 — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:46:52 GMT

Me too ! Those emails are usually just spoofing your email address. Wait till you get a call from your own phone #. I know people who got calls from #666. Lol

Comment #18

Artist77 — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:39:22 GMT

I think a couple of people forgot about their insistance this was her fb page and those were her friends and her son's pic.....since pictures don't lie.

Comment #17

Saylorgirl — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:23:55 GMT

While I believe in being able to remain anonymous, the state does NOT FORCE you to give your name or other information. You CHOOSE to play and those are the rules. If one truly wants to remain anonymous in a state that does not allow it, one should simply NOT PLAY.

Comment #16

Cassie8620 — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:29:53 GMT

Yep. Wow. This is why my parents who love playing big games more than me, say, A state should not be able to force us

to:

-give our last name.

-Only initials and the county/city,state,of where we played and won pb mm or cash-five ya know.

I agree. Sad to say, there are crazy's out here.and i am praying she is safe after this,and move away with an unlisted # too.

God bless her.and her family.

Comment #15

sweetie7398 — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:09:53 GMT

Comment #14

wander73 — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:25:10 GMT

Too much info. Dozens of accts. Nobody needs to know.

Comment #13

noise-gate — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:43:54 GMT

There is little difference between these crooks the Jamaican scammers. The Jamaicans tell you, you won, and now need to send them money first, in order for them to release your winnings.

These characters are asking you for your SS # etc, in order for them to break into your saving bank accounts.

Comment #12

TheGameGrl — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:43:03 GMT

Thank you for being the voice of reason and validity!

On another note a famous sweepstakes was set

To announce its winner today..Wasn't me :(

No PCH this time...

Comment #11

Stack47 — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:43:51 GMT

The $758 million jackpot was based on an annuity, but the winner took the cash value. By law State and Federal taxes are deducted from the cash value and there is nothing an army of financial advisers/lawyers can do to prevent that.

Comment #10

hearsetrax — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:32:17 GMT

been using my original hotmail acct for a goood bit b4 google was born

I've learned one can't have enough filters or be carefull enough

specially these days

Comment #9

OneTrickpony — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:01:56 GMT

Probably. And, she still owes around $70,000,000 in Federal taxes if she doesn't get some financial advice now, or at least before the end of the year.

Comment #8

Groppo — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:47:15 GMT

.

I use Gmail exclusively, where I have dozens accounts created over the span of about 20 years. Unfortunately, my main email account does get considerable spam, but creating filters has helped. On another gmail account, I get none, I mean 0 (zero) spammails. I think this has to do with having given out my main account to even some friends .

Sometimes, that can't be helped.

I rely on Gmail's filter component, which I can customize in any number of ways.

Because even some friends rea... [ More ]

Comment #7

Groppo — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:35:56 GMT

.

The sole winner took home only $336 million out of a $750 million jackpot?

Come on. . . .

Could this have been improved if she'd contacted financial advisors/lawyers

Comment #6

wander73 — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:37:08 GMT

Huh!!! What do you mean arrest? Although I know where you're going with this. There are different things about this lottery winner and the way she came out about it.

Comment #5

lejardin — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:30:01 GMT

That didn't take long.

Just another reason for anonymity.

Comment #4

wander73 — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:23:02 GMT

What a shocker!!! Really. I guess people believe everything they hear and see. If people actually do send money just like that ALS challenge thing then they're dumber than they think they are.

I am so glad I am NOT on facebook anymore. These scammers have nothing better to do. Posting on different pages unreal.

Comment #3

ressuccess — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:12:19 GMT

I think they'll arrest this jackpot winner who was a scam person

Comment #2

hearsetrax — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:53:53 GMT

Xs infinity

stuff like this never ceases to amaze me

as for spammers in one's email

I can say its been a a good while,

since I had gotten an email from a some lady with cancer,some bank executive and etc etc

I still get drug related scams though

Comment #1

Vergie6 — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:38:45 GMT

I never even answer my phone if I don't know who is on the caller ID...but of course they can change the number to any number they want to now so you have to be careful even then but if I do answer don't know them before they can say the cheerful hello I hang up!

On one of my email accounts I am getting spammers using my own email address to send me messages. I wouldn't block it for a little while but then I blocked it to see if it would keep me from receiving mail it didn't so that helps a l... [ More ]

Scammers using social media accounts claiming to be lottery winner Mavis Wanczyk

Lottery Post — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:33:06 GMT

Police are again warning people about multiple fake social media accounts created by scammers pretending to be the city's Powerball winner.

Don't fall for this scam. Don't give personal information, Michael Wilk, Chicopee Police public information officer, posted on the department's social media accounts.

In a brief search Wilk said he found more than 30 fake Instagram accounts as well as a handful of Twitter accounts and Facebook accounts. Nearly all of the accounts are using some versio... [ More ]