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Lottery scams use real business names to appear legitimateNews Story
Vintner Charles Sawyer knew something was wrong when a stranger called wanting to know why he'd been sent a $2,400 check. As it turned out, someone had used the good name of Sawyer Cellars in a scam that apparently took in scores of people. It was frighteningly well done, Sawyer said. The ruse appears to have been among a number of mail or telemarketing frauds promising people they've won big. To collect, all they need to do is pay a relatively small fee, the story goes. In this ca
Mar 13, 2006, 6:29 am - Todd - Lottery News

Hail To The * WorkersReply
Actually Badger when the smoke clears and they pay ALL the taxes I figure they'll get about 29% of the advertised jackpot amount. And yes it does gripe me. But what the hell does Powerball care if some of us are griped. Their advertising scam works. People flock to buy tickets when the jackpot hits record levels. That means Lotto execs make their bonuses. And of course the politicians get more cash to pour down their bottomless rathole of worthless...I mean worthwhile expenditures. A $2
Feb 22, 2006, 7:11 pm - Uncle Jim - Lottery Discussion Forum

Woman 'hiding lottery win from husband'Reply
What light? What blessing? How much did you pay for that blessing last year? 52 sundays, plus a few holy days thrown in. Donations each time? How much? How much for the candles? Every see a preacher in the welfare line? Ever see one in the unemployment line? Ever see one ascend into heaven? Used to do it all the time. Then came science and technology. All of a sudden, the magic is gone. When was the last great healer? Where is the great seual to the Bible? Something must have ha
Feb 5, 2006, 2:01 pm - Chewie - Lottery News

Penn. woman Loses $20,000 In Jamaican Lottery ScamReply
It's not only the Lottery scams that get people. I have a relative that falls for almost every easy money pitch that comes his way. He once sent 10k to some guy in Chicago for Silver futures and lost, then sent another 5k for Heating Oil futures to try and make the money back. I once told him that had he put all the money he spent trying to get rich into Government Bonds he would now be rich. It's not just the elderly, this uncle has been doing this for 25 years. Time after time he's com
Feb 2, 2006, 7:10 am - HiYoSilver - Lottery News

Pennsylvania man loses thousands to lottery scamReply
There is a difference between stupid and ignorance. Stupid means you know better, but do it anyways. Ignorance means you just didn't know. With either, I hope the person learns.When I first signed on to eBay, I got a letter that said that someone was getting into my account. So I used the link and it asked me to sign in. I did. It asked me for the information I put in orginally, like my name and password and so on. Then it asked for my credit card that I used. I typed it in. The nexted thing the
Jan 30, 2006, 12:43 pm - whitmansm2 - Lottery News

Christmas with UK Lotto 6/49 SuperdrawReply
Hi shep23,Winning a UK lotto jackpot would be awesone to any lotto player. Anyway, the e-mail cites the complete results of UK Lotto 6/49's Dec.17 drawing and, seemingly to make it look trustworthy, uses the official UK National Lottery logos. Unfortunately, a closer look leads me to believe that it might have indeed nothing to do with the official UK lottery - for example, the e-mail address, yahoo but not national-lottery.co.uk, looks strange. Also, personally I have never heard of any such pr
Jan 9, 2006, 3:02 am - anonymous77 - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball lottery winners talk about hitting the jackpotReply
people always give congratulations around here to winners. look around. maybe this couple started off on the wrong foot with the whole coy 'we're not looking for publicity' massive attention seeking b.s. comparisons to the patron saint of bad decision making, jack whittaker, will always be made (until someone making worse decisions publically comes along). besides, only they are responsible for what happens to their lives at this point. if they really are affected by what anonymous people sa
Dec 13, 2005, 1:18 pm - Iesha Kelly - Lottery News

Has anyone here ever win anything using lReply
But when you say I hope it's not to save us from ourselves , there is no us here. Hmmm, it's kinda like a guy walking into church, and anouncing it's all a scam. There is a general us here for the purpose of trying to win the lottery and the occassional them who take pleasure in telling us there is nothing what-so-ever we can do to improve our chances. I'm not saying you're not welcome, just understand you are taking a position contrary to the purpose of the web site which is to encoura
Dec 6, 2005, 2:09 am - BobP - Lottery Systems Forum

Californians targeted by Spanish lottery scamReply
My point, pretty well clear I thought (but maybe not) was that in the old days with the magazine sweepstakes wars to get subscribers all that was offered were the 20 - 25 year installments which is identical to the annuity option on the lotteries. The magazine publishers bought an annuity just like the lotteries do today. And that's how you got your money and nobody complained. That was just the rules. You were happy to be gettng millions of dollars that you wouldn't otherwise be getting. I
Dec 4, 2005, 4:43 pm - ChazzMatt - Lottery News

Why does this happen over and over again?
Hello All,Just wondering if anyone notices that Arizona seems to be very slow on putting out the lottery #'s..I found it tonight on another site but, was unable to find the Indiana results. The Indiana drawing is held at 9:30 at night.I figure since I'm on the east coast there is a time difference but, it's 1:24 am right now here and still no results and there web page is down.I think there might be some cheating going on with the west side doing lottery draws. Seems like some of these states la
Nov 30, 2005, 1:34 am - powerplayer - Lottery Discussion Forum