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  2. Trio uses bogus sweepstakes prizes to scam people out of $1 ...

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    Three New York residents are facing prison time after officials say they stole more than $1 million in a fake lottery scheme.. Caron Pitter, 47, Rohan Lyttle, 49, and Charlene Marshall, 44, were ...

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  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".

  7. 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.

  8. Scam baiting - Wikipedia

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    For scams conducted via written communication, baiters may answer scam emails using throwaway email accounts, pretending to be receptive to scammers' offers. [4]Popular methods of accomplishing the first objective are to ask scammers to fill out lengthy questionnaires; [5] to bait scammers into taking long trips; to encourage the use of poorly made props or inappropriate English-language ...

  9. Is the Lottery a Scam? Here's Why You Should Never Play - AOL

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    Big lottery winners are incredibly likely to blow it all, go broke, and end up worse off than they were before they won. One of the biggest reasons is the sense of entitlement that friends and ...