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To Visiondude
david, now that i know your agenda , you picked the wrong guy to mess with. you see, i do my homework!! did a search on compulotto and found out what you are really all about. good thing i waited to post something until you did. your little scam about coming to lottery post and build yourself credibilty is going to fail. you should have never said anything to me and you would have gone farther.first of all you don't believe in god , truth, liberty and the american way. that is the battle
Sep 17, 2002, 12:32 am - visiondude - Lottery Discussion Forum

Last defendant in Jamaican lottery scam case going to trial
A Rhode Island woman accused of funneling lottery scam money between the U.S. and Jamaica through her airline job goes on trial in federal court in North Dakota this week. She is the last of 27 defendants in the case that began seven years ago this month. Here's a look at the case and the upcoming trial of Melinda Bulgin, which is expected to last up to 10 days. Why is this case a big deal? The Federal Trade Commission estimates that lottery scams could be a billion-dollar-a-year industry
Sep 10, 2018, 10:36 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery scam victim, 78, becomes scammer, swindles friends
Duped friends, neighbors, pastor out of more than $1 million This was the trip that would bring them the jackpot. Doris Siegel and a friend boarded a plane to Amsterdam in August 2008 for a $1 million payout, money that would finally prove that the Nigerian lottery she'd told friends and neighbors about was no scam. Siegel and her friend met with five men who called themselves Nigerian businessmen, authorities said. They were taken to the basement of a building and told they would need
Mar 30, 2010, 8:28 am - Todd - Lottery News

Cheat at lottery
I converted your link to a non-clickable form, because the last thing I would want to do is to help that scam site's search rankings. I left it there as an educational thing, even though this topic has been discussed several times before. People should go there, if only to recognize what a scam site looks like. Anyone who pays for that garbage has been warned, and they are simply throwing their money away. Actually, it's worse than that. They are helping fund a scammer, who will most li
Mar 16, 2006, 8:35 am - Todd - Pick 3 Forum

Oregon woman tricked by international lottery scam
The letter from Star Lotto Prize Inc. promising a big win was so believable.But within a week of receiving it, Juanita Foss of Beaverton had lost $3,000. Any time you get a lottery thing like this it's fraud, said Foss, a retiree who wants to make sure no one else falls for the scam.The swindle starts with an official letter promising a rich reward. It moves forward with a fake check sent to the victim. And ends with the victim forwarding a real check to an international address.The scam may be
Sep 30, 2005, 9:16 am - Todd - Lottery News

NY woman loses $25,000 through phone lottery scam
A 71-year-old Clarkstown, New York woman was cheated out of $25,000 through a phony telephone lottery scam, Clarkstown police said yesterday.A caller told the woman in early November that she had won the $300,000 Canadian lottery and could collect the money after paying taxes, police said.The woman sent $1,500 to a Chicago address through Western Union. The scammers made follow-up calls and she made 19 payments to various people over the next two months, bringing the total to $25,000, police sai
Jan 5, 2005, 10:09 am - Todd - Lottery News

Woman loses $5K in lottery ticket scam
It seemed like an easy way to make a lot of money.A Brentwood woman was offered $5,000 to cash in a winning lottery ticket. Instead, the woman lost more than $5,000 of her money, hoodwinked by con artists in a popular scam that often targets Spanish-speaking immigrants.The woman, who police identified only as about 35 years old and a Spanish speaker, was walking on Suffolk Avenue in Brentwood on Tuesday when she was approached by a Spanish-speaking woman who asked for help in locating an address
Oct 11, 2004, 5:58 pm - Todd - Lottery News

S.C. man loses more than $140K to 'you've won the lottery' scam
Got a letter from the KY Department of Revenue saying I had to fill out a identity quiz to get my refund and my it's a scam radar went off. But it was legit. It's just amazing how many people who were intelligent enough to save a large amount of money and then fall for a scams. The key to a good scam is usually too much detail and in the SS scam you're in serious trouble and what's your SS number should set off any it's a scam radar. If they don't know you're SS number how could they know
Feb 28, 2020, 11:55 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Last defendant in large Jamaican lottery scam convicted
A federal jury in North Dakota on Friday convicted a Rhode Island woman of helping scam elderly Americans out of millions of dollars, capping a large-scale Jamaican lottery scam case that authorities have been investigating and prosecuting for six years. Jurors found Melinda Bulgin, 28, guilty of 15 counts of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering, after 3 1/2 hours of deliberations over two days. Defense attorney Kevin Chapman said he likely will appeal. The Providence woman was the last
Sep 15, 2018, 8:36 pm - Todd - Lottery News

OPEC Lottery
Sounds like hoax/ scam. The Illinois lottery home page provides a link to info. about illegal lottery scams: Cross-border fraud is a serious problem and it appears to be growing. For example, consumers in the U.S. and other countries lose billions of dollars each year to telemarketers operating from boiler rooms across the border who pitch bogus products, services and investments. They also lose money to Internet scam artists who operate anonymously from places outside the U.S. The most comm
Jan 28, 2006, 10:22 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum