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Alleged high-tech roulette scam "easy to set up"News Story
An alleged high-tech roulette scam that saw three people walk out of a London casino with 1.3 million recently sounds too implausible even for a movie plot.But a physicist who developed a technology-based system that famously beat the wheel in the 1970s has told New Scientist that in theory it would have been fairly easy to carry out with a little know-how and the right tools.Two men and a woman were arrested on 16 March after raking in a huge win over two evenings. Suspicious casino staff are
Mar 25, 2004, 5:20 am - Lottery News

Gang arrested after £1.3m win at Ritz casinoNews Story
Three people have been arrested on suspicion of using James Bond-style electronic trickery to win almost 1.3 million at a London casino.The Metropolitan Police said today that two men and a woman, all from Eastern Europe, had been arrested for allegedly obtaining money by deception.They are accused of using a scanner inserted into a mobile phone and hooked up to a microcomputer to calculate where a roulette ball would probably fall after the third turn of the wheel.The Daily Mirror newspaper re
Mar 22, 2004, 4:41 pm - Lottery News

Dreams of lottery cash turn to dustNews Story
When a friendly telemarketer called a 74-year-old Bethlehem, Pennsylvania woman two weeks ago to tell her she'd won $5 million in a Canadian sweepstakes, it sounded too good to be true.But the young man on the other end of the line convinced the woman she was a winner and to claim her prize she had to send him $1,900 cash to cover taxes and fees on the winnings.Bethlehem police later learned the man was a con artist, but only after the victim took out a home loan to wire him the original amount
Mar 22, 2004, 4:11 am - Lottery News

Miami Police Search For Pair In Alleged Lotto ScamNews Story
Man, Woman Robbed Victim Of $11,000Miami Police said a Latino couple approached a woman on Feb. 4, telling her they needed her help to cash a winning lottery ticket valued at $425,000. The man and woman told the woman they would pay her a percentage of the loot, in exchange for a fee of $11,000.The following week, on Feb. 10, the woman gave the men the $11,000, and the three drove to a pharmacy in North Miami, where the woman left the cash in her car and walked inside the drugstore. The woma
Mar 17, 2004, 5:19 am - Lottery News

Foreign Lottery Scams Making Big ComebackNews Story
It starts with a postcard, a phone call -- maybe even an email -- telling you you've just won millions in a foreign lottery. It's a scam that's went underground for a while, but lately has made a comeback -- in a big way. This one here is from the Euro lottery, said Daniel Dujardin.Dujardin, 70, says it was a postcard that first hooked him in. 'You're eligible for certain amount, thousands of millions of dollars.' But of course, there was a catch. Oh, they want money up front either for taxe
Mar 17, 2004, 5:06 am - Lottery News

Lottery scammer gets 18 monthsNews Story
A native of Russia was sentenced to 18 months in prison Wednesday in federal court in Chicago for taking part in a telemarketing scam that cheated mostly elderly victims in the United States and Canada.Typically, victims were led to believe they had won a large cash prize but first had to send money to cover duty costs, taxes or liens.One 81-year-old woman from Aurora, repeatedly hit up for more and more money, dventually lost more than $200,000 in the scheme, authorities said.In pleading guilty
Mar 11, 2004, 5:20 am - Lottery News

Man loses $41,000 in sweepstakes scamNews Story
A 28-year-old Franklin, New Jersey man got a letter in the mail indicating he had won more than $600,000 in Spain's El Gordo Sweepstakes Lottery program. But over a two-week period, that Franklin man wound up withdrawing money from his bank account, taking cash advances on his credit card, borrowing from family and losing about $41,000 to the lottery scam.And police say it's unlikely the money will ever be recovered.Now the warehouse worker, who asked that his name not be used, is taking out a
Mar 5, 2004, 4:25 am - Lottery News

Woman loses $2,800 in lottery scamNews Story
A pair of con artists took advantage of a 64-year-old California woman Friday afternoon, stealing $2,800 of her savings on the promise of splitting a $125,000 winning lottery ticket with her, her granddaughter says.Such lottery scams are not uncommon in Gilroy; a few people fall victim every year, according to police. Elderly people are usually the targets, especially elderly Hispanics who might be more inclined to feel sorry for someone who claims they cant cash a winning lottery ticket because
Mar 5, 2004, 4:14 am - Lottery News

Scam sites offer bogus Hong Kong lottery tipsNews Story
Websites in mainland China and Taiwan are offering to sell inside information on winning Hong Kong lottery numbers -- then vanishing before authorities can catch those behind them.The sites -- which require payments for the bogus tips -- turn up then disappear almost as soon as they're spotted, Hong Kong Jockey Club spokesman Wilson Cheng said Monday.The club is a nonprofit charity that runs Hong Kong's lottery, horse races and football betting.Hong Kong lottery officials claim there's no way
Feb 24, 2004, 5:53 am - Lottery News

Counterfeit lottery tickets in TennesseeNews Story
The Tennessee Attorney Generals Office is working with the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) to determine how to deal with illegal tickets being circulated throughout Tennessee.TELC CEO Rebecca Paul said she first heard about the problem from victims of the scam who wanted the TELC to refund their money.They look like a lottery ticket, they scratch like a lottery ticket, but they are a phone card, Paul said, adding some victims reported that when they asked a retailer for lottery ti
Feb 3, 2004, 5:35 am - Lottery News