Saturday, August 14, 2010

Canadian Lottery Scam Artist Jailed for 9 Years

Watch out for the scam artists. They are espeically targeting the elderly. They tell folks they won large lottery jackpots and that they have to pay certain fees before collecting their lottery prize. This lottery scam artist was ripping off folks in the US while operating out of Canada. He's been put away for 9 years. Here's the story as reported by The Lottery Post.

Canadian gets 9 years for U.S. lottery scam

A Vancouver man was sentenced to nine years in prison Monday for running a lottery scam in the United States that defrauded dozens of elderly victims of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Henry Anekwu, 43, was convicted in April of 10 counts of mail fraud and six counts of wire fraud, all of which were centered around a telemarketing operation that told victims they had won a lottery, but needed to pay taxes or other fees up front to claim their winnings. Individual victims paid as much as $60,000 into the scheme, which operated for about five years until 2003. Many of the 79 victims in the scam lost their homes as a result. Read the whole story...

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