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The lottery center authorities declared that Liu's ticket was valid and apologized. The car and 120,000 yuan (US$15,000) in cash was given Liu. [4] In December 2004, eleven people who tried to defraud Chinese lottery winners by having their tickets declared forgeries were sentenced to prison terms of up to 19 years.
In 2010, in the Hot Lotto fraud scandal, Eddie Raymond Tipton, former information security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) (which also controls the Powerball game), rigged a random number generator to defraud the Hot Lotto lottery game of $14.3 million. On 20 July 2015, Tipton was found guilty on two counts of fraud and ...
The scam then becomes an advance-fee fraud or a check fraud. A wide variety of reasons can be offered for the trickster's lack of cash, but rather than just borrow the money from the victim (advance fee fraud), the con-artist normally declares that they have checks which the victim can cash on their behalf and remit the money via a non ...
Scammers are always trying creatively to bilk people of their money and sweepstakes are one proven avenue of success for them. Beware.
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Non-payment and non-delivery scams cost consumers more than $309 million dollars in 2023, with credit card fraud accounting for another $173 million dollars in losses, according to a report by the ...
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