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  2. Lottery scam - Wikipedia

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    Another type of lottery scam is a scam email or web page where the recipient had won a sum of money in the lottery. The recipient is instructed to contact an agent very quickly but the scammers are just using a third party company, person, email or names to hide their true identity, in some cases offering extra prizes (such as a 7 Day/6 Night Bahamas Cruise Vacation, if the user rings within 4 ...

  3. Man thinks call from lottery is a scam — until he answers a ...

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    A 57-year-old Michigan man saw an email saying he had won a $100,000 prize, but he deleted it thinking it was a scam.. Later, he got a call from Michigan lottery officials saying the same thing ...

  4. This Man Rigged the Lottery Five Times Before He Got Caught - AOL

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    The video was grainy, but it showed enough to possibly crack open the biggest lottery scam in American history. Then, in a subsequent call, the man admitted he had “fibbed”; he said he was ...

  5. Lottery fraud - Wikipedia

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    In Vietnam, lottery fraud has occurred on many different scales, from small to large, causing great damage to the state and the people. [24] [25] Lottery fraud takes many different forms, including: fraud in the lottery drawing process, [26] [27] [28] fraud in the lottery printing process, [29] [30] fraud in the lottery ticket sales process ...

  6. FBI Issues New Warning on Lottery and Sweepstakes Scams - AOL

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    Consumers need to be wary of bogus letters and emails claiming they've won a sweepstakes or lottery, since they have nothing to win and much to lose, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns.

  7. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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    Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money. Here the victims will also be required to pay substantial small amounts of money in order to have the winning money ...

  8. Opinion: Consumers lose millions to lottery and sweepstakes ...

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    Scammers are always trying creatively to bilk people of their money and sweepstakes are one proven avenue of success for them. Beware.

  9. Lottery player sees he won big in email, but thought it was a ...

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