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Forged lottery ticket from 1936, displayed in the Norwegian National Museum of Justice, Trondheim. Lottery fraud is any act committed to defraud a lottery game. A perpetrator attempts to win a jackpot prize through fraudulent means. The aim is to defraud the organisation running the lottery of money, or in the case of a stolen lottery ticket ...
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 ...
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Iowa Lottery officials are overhauling how its winning numbers are picked after one of its employees allegedly used a high-tech ploy to scoop the jackpot for himself.
Findley is charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft and could face up to 40 years in prison plus fines in connection with the case. Findley was indicted by a grand jury on Sept. 10.
FBI special agent Ethan Via described the McDonaghs' scam as a "travelling roadshow of fraud" - going from state to state, knocking on doors and telling homeowners they had problems with their ...
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 ...
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.