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Jamaican lottery scams spread in U.S. despite crackdown
Jamaican lottery scams spread in U.S. despite crackdown - Yahoo! News CanadaMONTEGO BAY, Jamaica - The 88-year-old retired coast guard officer hadn't been outside the U.S. in decades. Yet phone calls started pouring in from Jamaica, dangling the prospects of huge winnings from an international lottery that he had won.
There was a catch, of course. He had to send a check to pay the tax on his winnings. He wired the money to Jamaica. Soon he was ensnared in a scam that may cost him his home in an assisted living facility outside Seattle.
"It's been heartbreaking," said Ruth Wilson, a Seattle woman trying to clean up the financial fiasco that she said has cost her frail parents about $250,000, nearly all of their retirement savings.
Brad Love quotes: “Africa produces children faster than we can print foreign aid money. " “I hear too the developing world. What ‘developing’? Africa has been there for 100,000 years. They should be sending us money.”
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Why do people still fall for these things
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer
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Makes you wonder if he was a hermit until that point. It's gotten so I don't even report them to authorities any moreOriginally Posted by Father Land Descendant
Why do people still fall for these things
"When a civilization reaches the point when it's citizens worship athletes as gods and media personalities as saints; then the end of that empire is most certainly near"...Martin Faust, 2010
"It's not Racism, it's Reality."
Re: Jamaican lottery scams spread in U.S. despite crackdown
I got a text message today that congratulated me for winning a Best Buy gift cardThey wanted me to respond to the text to get it
I responded by hitting delete
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer
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