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New Twist On Foreign Lottery 'Smart Scams'
- By Jay HS
- Published 04/10/2007
- Lottery Scam
- Unrated
Lottery scams that do not just take your money once, but more than once until they are satisfied... As the news wrote, 'They don't stop until you are broke.'
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(CBS) CHICAGO Foreign lottery scams are at the top of the fraud charts with law enforcement authorities. They estimate that hundreds of millions of dollars a year are
lost to fraud rings based in countries
like Canada, Spain and Australia, to name a few.
The CBS 2 Investigators look at the new twist to this old scam that accounts for its resurgence. As CBS 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reports, it's a smart scam that turned a smart man into a big loser.
Like millions of Americans, 79-year-old Arent Jacobson was bombarded with announcements he'd won big money in foreign lotteries...
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(CBS) CHICAGO Foreign lottery scams are at the top of the fraud charts with law enforcement authorities. They estimate that hundreds of millions of dollars a year are
The CBS 2 Investigators look at the new twist to this old scam that accounts for its resurgence. As CBS 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reports, it's a smart scam that turned a smart man into a big loser.
Like millions of Americans, 79-year-old Arent Jacobson was bombarded with announcements he'd won big money in foreign lotteries...