Let me warn you straight on. No matter where you live.
Don’t buy or play lotteries through the mail. Don’t pay attention to unsolicited letters telling you that you’ve won an overseas … or even Canadian Lottery. If you live in Europe the same thing holds. Watch out for unsolicited letters saying you’ve won something.
In fact, [...]
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Watch Out: Lottery Scam Rears its Head in New Jersey
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Cheating, European, Lottery, Opinion, Picking Numbers
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Israeli Lottery Scam Artists Arrested: They Cheated New Yorkers Out of $2 Million
October 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Cheating, Lottery, Lump Sum, Opinion, Random Facts, Scams, Stories
A criminal ring located in Tel Aviv that targeted U.S. senior citizens in a telemarketing lottery scam was broken up last Friday by Israeli police, assisted by U.S. agents, reported the Jerusalem Post newspaper.
According to police records, the Israelis conned mainly New York seniors out of more than $2 million.
The crooks worked out of a [...]
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Lottery Scam Watch: Keep Track of Your Tickets
September 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Basics, Cheating, Culture, Lottery, Lump Sum, Opinion
A lottery retail clerk may have cheated a winning ticket holder out of $800,000.
Did anyone out there see this item in a recent issue of the New Orlean Times Picayune newspaper?
Well, according to newspaper reports, there is now an ongoing investigation by Louisiana State Police and the state’s Lottery Corporation to determine if a Louisiana [...]
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Are lotteries ever rigged?
January 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Cheating, Lottery
Many believe that lotteries, a game of chance that involves the random drawing of numbers, cannot be rigged; however, there have been instances where investigations have proven that this too can be fixed.
In the late 1990s, it was discovered that the results one of the many lotteries held in Italy, was rigged. The organizers, in [...]
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