It was a social experiment with an interesting ending. ABC set up some hidden cameras in a lottery store, hired a few actors, then filmed the results as the store clerk 'cheated' a customer out of their winnings. Take a look to see what happened.
The scammer claimed to be Wisconsin lottery $768 million winner Manuel Franco (inset), who offered a Portage woman $100,000. Shirley Hall (above) runs an animal rescue in Portage and was in need of funding for her operation. How she narrowly escaped the scam makes an interesting tale. VIDEO: News 3 Now
I was redirected to a spammy website recently. Now, normally I would just click away, but something caught my attention. The photo looked very familiar.
Read MoreIt seems simple enough. On eBay, Craigslist and elsewhere, you can obtain used lottery tickets which you then use to offset your lottery costs, which are shown as 'losses.'
Read MoreIt didn’t take long for scammers to start using the name of Powerball winner Charles W Jackson (pictured) name to grab some quick money.
Read MoreThe details of a Hot Lotto lottery scam that swept news headlines are laid out in a new book just published.
Read MoreThere are many ways that a lottery scam can trip up even the most careful of us, and here's one of them to add to your list. A St. Louis couple received an unexpected check for $4,350. It was the first of their alleged $250,000 lottery winnings…
Read MoreUnfortunately the elderly are often at risk when an official-looking letter like this one arrives.
Thanks to the lucky spotting by her daughter, a 95-year-old woman from Bassington, UK, saved her money for another day.
Read MoreYou win the lottery, you collect the money. Doesn't seem too hard to do, but when this guy received a call supposedly from the lottery (first wrong move - they NEVER call you) it wasn't quite what he expected. Then it all turned ugly, and you will not believe what the scammer demanded he do to collect the $11.5 Million jackpot prize.
EuroMillions winners Gareth and Catherine Bull are NOT sending out emails giving you US$1.96 million.
There’s an an email been doing the rounds recently, where 2012 Euromillions winners Gareth and Catherine Bull say they have too much money.
Read MoreDid this millionaire really own his Lamborghini?
The news gave me a shock when I first read it.
Read MoreCyber security expert John Sileo of 9NEWS talks about the Colorado woman, 93, who lost $100,000 to a group of lottery scammers.
It started with a series of phone calls, reports cyber security expert John Sileo of 9NEWS. And ended with a 93 year-old woman losing more than $100,000 to callers who said she had won the California Lottery.
Niece Sharon Hansen says there was virtually nothing her family could do to stop it.
Read More“Hey Ken, I got an email telling me I won a lot of money in a lottery game in England. They told me I had to send them fee money to release the winnings to me because there were insurance costs and bank fees. I don't have a spare $1500 to pay them but I'm thinking of borrowing the money from my sister. What do you think?”
I think you should immediately stop anything involved with this proposal and forget it entirely. It is a common scam, and plenty of people are taken in by it.
If you didn't buy a ticket (or even if you did) this is not the way that genuine lotteries conduct business.
A distant relative of ours lost many thousands of dollars to such a scheme recently. Don't be one of the people who have given their hard-earned money to these rip-offs!
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