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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 ...

  3. Scam alert: Sweepstakes or lottery schemes targeting ... - AOL

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    Jul. 8—In the past year, there have been 250 scams reported to the Better Business Bureau and local law enforcement. But both say there are many more residents who have been scammed out of money ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Cramming (fraud) - Wikipedia

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    Cramming is a form of fraud in which small charges are added to a bill by a third party without the subscriber's consent, approval, authorization or disclosure. These may be disguised as a tax, some other common fee or a bogus service, and may be several dollars or even just a few cents.

  9. 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.