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Nebraska Lottery Issues Scam WarningNews Story
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning today warned consumers about an e-mail scam that tells recipients they have won a prize from the Nebraska Lottery/Bill Gate (sic) Foundation and dventually asks for a processing fee.Describing itself as a global lottery program, the e-mail scam tells potential victims they have been randomly selected to receive a cash prize and asks them to e-mail their name, telephone number and mailing address to a fiduciary agent. There is even a fictitious ticket number
Nov 26, 2004, 12:15 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery Phone Scam Continues to Snare VictimsNews Story
It can be so easy to get pulled into the trap of a lottery phone scam.It sounds so enticing just send them a few thousand dollars to cover the taxes and you rake in hundreds of thousands.But what sounds too good to be true, is. So, why are so many folks falling for it? You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payment of $450,890 Congratulations. That letter, with a handwritten address on the envelope, had a Dandridge, Tennessee woman celebrating. I started reading it, was real excited
Jun 15, 2005, 1:42 pm - Todd - Lottery News

FBI warns of Mega Millions lottery fraudNews Story
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
Oct 25, 2016, 1:16 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Key player in Jamaican lottery scam sentenced to 4 yearsNews Story
A federal judge in North Dakota on Wednesday sentenced a Rhode Island woman to four years in prison for funneling lottery scam money between the U.S. and Jamaica, prompting a prosecutor to question the ruling. Melinda Bulgin, 29, of Providence, received a sentence that was 10 years less than prosecutors had sought. U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland said Bulgin's role in the scam was not on the level of others who received lesser sentences than the 14 years requested by prosecutors, The Bi
Jul 12, 2019, 8:46 pm - Todd - Lottery News

8 lottery scam suspects arrested in JamaicaReply
Darn, and I thought Montego Bay would be a nice restful, peaceful place to vacation. I've heard all about the Nigerian scammers. Guess this won't end until every country on earth, is getting their fair share of scamming action. Here a scam, there a scam...everywhere a scam...scam...scam. At least spam is better than a scam.
May 21, 2012, 10:55 am - mcginnin56 - Lottery News

Californians targeted by Spanish lottery scamNews Story
Imagine receiving a letter in the mail that you're the big winner of a lottery in Spain. If it sounds too good to be true, that's probably because it is.This scam is known as the El Gordo lottery, meaning fat one . But the only ones fattening their wallets are the criminals behind it.It's a letter that seemed too good to be true to News 8's assistant news director Dean Elwood. $600,000 ... who wouldn't want that, he said.And according to this notice claiming to be from the El Gordo Spani
Nov 30, 2005, 1:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Seniors Targeted by Lottery ScamNews Story
The so called foreign lottery scam is again targeting senior citizens in Texas, and former Governor Ann Richards and First Mother and former First Lady Barbara Bush have joined forces to produce radio and TV commercials urging Texans to 'just hang up.'The way the scam usually works is a senior will get an official sounding telephone call from somebody claiming that the senior has won a foreign lottery, usually the non existent 'Canadian Lottery.'Dalton Bessette, a senior who lost $240,000 to t
Oct 5, 2004, 11:52 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery scam costs Fresno man $2,300News Story
A new twist to a scam involving the Canadian lottery has cost a 77-year-old Fresno man $2,300, Fresno police reported Wednesday.David Case, a detective assigned to the department's elder abuse unit, said the victim received a letter from the International Lottery Sweepstakes of Canada, accompanied with a check for $2,450, notifying him that he had won $100,000 in the Canadian lottery.To collect his winnings, however, the victim was instructed to deposit the check and then send $2,300 (to cover C
Dec 26, 2003, 3:44 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery Scam Reaches N.D. Sen. ConradNews Story
The letter looked official, but Sen. Kent Conrad thought the offer was fishy: wire $700 to Germany, then $715,810 in Spanish lottery winnings was his.The North Dakota Democrat even had an agent willing to talk him through -- or into -- the deal. I'm going to go right home and tell my wife, Conrad told the man who claimed to be an international lottery official. This is going to make a very merry Christmas in the Conrad household. Conrad was one of the latest targets of a mail scam that has r
Dec 18, 2003, 3:55 am - Todd - Lottery News

Minn. store clerk accused of "micro-scratching" lottery ticketsReply
This is a repeat post that I had posted last week but thought it was appropriate for this scam now revealed. Listen I have a friend who is from India. He owned a store here in Queens. He was a very nice guy or so I thought. We became friends over the years. About 3 or 4 years ago he left the country very fast. They shut the store down and left the USA so fast and left everything behind. Everything in the store I mean everything. And one day he sent me an email and we started to chat. I a
Jun 26, 2012, 3:00 pm - rgse90 - Lottery News