The winning ticket was purchased via a third party courier company, a practice that has become highly controversial in Texas.

Three people were arrested on Tuesday for their alleged part in a lottery scam that led to an elderly Fontana woman being scammed out of $20,000. It happened last week on Thursday, Feb. 20 ...

Returning to the lottery scam he knew too well will cost a North Miami Beach man about three years of his freedom after sentencing in Miami federal court. The time sentence to 34-year-old Akiel ...

An investigation into the alleged scam began after detectives were told that on Feb. 20 the suspects approached the victim while she was shopping. The suspects told the woman they had won a lottery ...

The winner of the Feb. 17 Lotto Texas jackpot said she is being punished unjustly because of the actions of others.

Investigators say the men went into a store in Bad Axe and bought $1,000 worth of instant lottery tickets. Smith and Whimper ...

And sweepstakes or lottery scams, where victims have to pay money to collect their prize. The scams are meant to manipulate the victim’s emotions and prey on their fears to get them to act ...