Jamaican national sentenced to federal prison after targeting 115 victims in lottery scam

Comment #10

Lotto Motto — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:40:33 GMT

A woman wrote in to a financial expert and said her baby was issued a credit card in their name. The woman laughed at the fact that her baby was issued a credit card in their name but the financial expert found nothing funny about her baby being issued a credit card in their name and pointed out that babies shouldn't be issued credit cards in their name.

The financial expert pointed out that you need a social security number to sign up for a credit card and babies certainly aren't using... [ More ]

Comment #9

Nino224 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:30:10 GMT

That money is safely stashed somewhere in his country and his victims won't be seeing a penny of it.

The article doesn't mention the total take, but I would guess it's in the millions. Three meals a day for three years and when you get out your fortune awaits you. THIS is why they do it! The risk is most definitely worth the reward!

Nothing we can do but educate the elderly on how not to be victimized.

Comment #8

Zaturnus1987 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:24:20 GMT

Scammers who prey on the elderly are the lowest of the low. Kudos to Homeland Security, US Postal Inspectors, and the US Attorney's Office for nailing this jerk and his cohorts

Comment #7

grwurston — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:10:58 GMT

36 months equals 1,095 days. Divide that by 115 victims. He got 9.5 days in prison for each person he scammed. He got off easy.

Since this is about scammers, if you have never checked your credit report you should do it. You may be surprised at the errors on it the first time you see it. First time I checked mine I found out I was issued a a gas station credit card when I was 10 years old. How did that that happen? They had me confused with my father, same first name and middle initial. So

Comment #6

L$money — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:27:19 GMT

Dammit boi

Comment #5

noise-gate — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:20:38 GMT

* The sentence is too short, 15 years max. Discourage this behavior once and for all.

Comment #4

Il2c — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:01:22 GMT

Bumbahol. Yea he wasn't alone

Comment #3

dickblow — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:17:08 GMT

send him back let him do time in his country not ours taxpayers fed up paiding there way

Comment #2

DrMiracle — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:40:29 GMT

A big salute to law enforcement! Over the past two years, they've done an outstanding job cracking down on Scammers and identity thieves.

My brother has been a victim of identity theft since 2015, and you wouldn't believe how many people have used his identity over the years. Recently, Some were working in construction, others opened cable TV accounts, and some even took out student loans to attend universities. One person actually bought a Porsche and tried to take it to Mexico. You name it... [ More ]

Comment #1

ayenowitall — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:49:08 GMT

Scammers who prey on the elderly are the lowest of the low. Kudos to Homeland Security, US Postal Inspectors, and the US Attorney's Office for nailing this jerk and his cohorts. Gentles deserves every day of that thirty-six month sentence he received. I just hope that $349,433.75 in restitution is enough to make all of his victims whole again.

Jamaican national sentenced to federal prison after targeting 115 victims in lottery scam

Lottery Post — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:42:04 GMT

Fraudster extradited from Jamaica to South Carolina for prosecution

By Kate Northrop

A Jamaican national has been sentenced to time in federal prison for his role in a years-long lottery telemarketing scam that preyed on at least 115 people.

Investigators cracked down on a wire fraud lottery scam that targeted at least 115 elderly victims.

Alando Gentles, 43, of Jamaica, was sentenced to 36 months behind bars after pleading guilty in federal court to wire fraud conspiracy tied to... [ More ]