Lottery scammers steal $1.2 million from one victim

Comment #15

MrLotto$ — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 03:53:57 GMT

I'm not going to even read this whole story... Lottery clickbait... Send in a million dollars to get a million get out of here... If anybody's that dumb they deserve to get juxed.. Young old or in between...

Comment #14

Coin Toss — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 02:05:52 GMT

From the book Scam Me Of You Cam

by Frank Abagnale, author of Catch Me If You Can

Most common lottery scam victims;

Most likely to be single, have less than a college education and annual income income is less than $50,000

p11

This is a 2019 book

Comment #13

Bleudog101 — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:30:58 GMT

Good points but many elder folks are old school and may not have Caller ID. Some companies on their message still say 'don't have touch tone, remain on the line.'

We love messing with these folks and am so disappointed that a lottery scammer has never called. They get so angry, especially when they introduce themselves and I say 'Mr. Patel, how are you?' Here by myself landline goes to facsimile after four rings and message capability long turned off

Comment #12

Stat$talker — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 07:25:01 GMT

People need to start USING their Caller ID feature on their phone...if you don't recognize the phone number having a FAMILIAR Name associated with it?,.. simply DON'T ANSWER IT..!!

Scammers can't get you to do ANYTHING , if they NEVER talk to you...!!

Personally, I never answer ANY call in which I don't recognize the number...PERIOD..!! Why?....

Because... IT'S SCAM PROOF..!!

-Stat$talker

Comment #11

KY Floyd — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 06:20:44 GMT

and Huckleberry Finn.

I already figured from the headline that the victim couldn't be all that bright, but seriously? The scammer must have been at a point where he was willing to risk losing future money just to see how gullible the guy was.

Comment #10

MrLotto$ — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 03:39:42 GMT

Yeah that victim was a dummy

Comment #9

MrLotto$ — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 03:39:07 GMT

From one victim? Really? That victim was stupid not sorry to say... If you have a million to pay out within all of that time they claimed it was what do you need to worry about Lottery money for? your're rich already.. wish I could find a victim like that

Comment #8

Mata Garbo — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 03:36:59 GMT

I feel sorry for the victims but ...........One of the names this scammer used was Huckleberry Finn How is it that a lightbulb does not go off when you hear that name?. Most people would think wait a minute, either this guy is some type of scammer or his grandfather was Mark Twain . You know I probably should not be sending him a million dollars. So the crook got six years. Well considering what happened to his younger brother he should consider himself very lucky.

Comment #7

rcbbuckeye — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 22:50:38 GMT

I never could understand how someone could be duped like that, making several transfers at that. You would think he would know better. The scammers must be really smooth talkers.

Comment #6

Stack47 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 21:11:46 GMT

And one would think someone intelligent to accumulate over $1 should be smart enough not to just give it away.

Comment #5

gvpazkn — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 20:55:07 GMT

I bet they never collect a dime in restitution from this scammer.

Comment #4

Bleudog101 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:30:33 GMT

Too bad that sentencing didn't include, somehow, a provision that if restitution is not paid, you get more prison time slapped on. Scamming the elderly, shame on them.

Banks in general do not care if you withdraw large sums of money apparently. Once in a blue moon a family member will step in and stop it. An alert caring bank employee could see a pattern...key word caring.

Comment #3

noise-gate — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:00:43 GMT

Such honesty is rarely seen - Plato

Comment #2

darthfury78 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:27:43 GMT

I fell victim to a similar scam back in 2004.

I lost around $4600.00.

It was the Nigerian lottery scam for $7 Million, which I foolishly believed to be real.

Goes to show that knowledge helps to avoid being a scam victim.

What surprised me was the fact they wanted $92K for the wire transfer.

Then they changed their fee to $10K.

Never again.

Comment #1

noise-gate — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:22:44 GMT

if you giving away $1.2 million to receive a whole lot more, and you get duped in the process, you only got yourself to blame.

Lottery scammers steal $1.2 million from one victim

Lottery Post — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:45:22 GMT

Crook receives six years in prison for crimes of conspiracy and fraud

By Kate Northrop

After stealing over $1 million from one single victim, the leader of a ring of Jamaican scam artists was sentenced Friday to almost six years in prison.

Like any typical scammer, Stieve Fernandez, 35, spent his time deceiving vulnerable individuals and robbing elderly targets of their life savings as part of a high-functioning underground network of lottery fraudsters.

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