The scam goes like this: One or two people enter a convenience store to buy a large amount of lottery tickets. After their credit cards fail, they offer to read the number off their phone.

Bank Islam Malaysia says Facebook posts claiming the lender is running an online lottery where customers can win generous prizes are "fake" and have misused their name and image. Police said the posts ...

To avoid falling victim to a lottery or sweepstakes scam, beware of these five red flags ... before being approached with one of these offers and remembering that if it sounds too good to be ...

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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 ...

The report details how Americans lost money in 2020 to fake sweepstakes, and prize and lottery scams. The BBB says complaints actually went down last year, but the amount of money lost went up by ...

she told lottery officials. Initially, Marquez was admittedly suspicious. “Honestly, I thought it was [a] scam at first because ... best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to ...