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2. Is the Lottery a Scam? Here's Why You Should Never Play - AOL

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   Jealousy, greed, and resentment are common side effects of winning lottery tickets, and they can lead to isolation, paranoia, divorce, and depression, and can even make the winner a target for ...

3. Lottery scam - Wikipedia

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   A lottery scam is a type of advance-fee fraud which begins with an unexpected email notification, phone call, or mailing (sometimes including a large check) explaining that "You have won!" a large sum of money in a lottery. The recipient of the message—the target of the scam—is usually told to keep the notice secret, "due to a mix-up in ...

4. Lottery fraud - Wikipedia

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   Lottery fraud is any act committed to defraud a lottery game. A perpetrator attempts to win a jackpot prize through fraudulent means. The aim is to defraud the organisation running the lottery of money, or in the case of a stolen lottery ticket, to defraud an individual of their legitimately won prize. Several common techniques are used ...

5. Hot Lotto fraud scandal - Wikipedia

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   The Hot Lotto fraud scandal was a lottery-rigging scandal in the United States. It came to light in 2017, after Eddie Raymond Tipton, the former information security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), confessed to rigging a random number generator that he and two others used in multiple cases of fraud against state ...

6. A lottery scam in Broward conned $6.6 million from senior ...

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   Money movers. Clarke was living at Plantation’s Midtown 24 Apartments as the alleged lottery scam started in 2020. The apartments registered resident parcels into a locker.

7. Lottery player thought email about winning top prize was a ...

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   “It seemed too good to be true and I assumed it was a scam email,” the Michigan woman said, according to lottery officials. Lottery player thought email about winning top prize was a scam ...

8. FBI Issues New Warning on Lottery and Sweepstakes Scams - AOL

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   The IC3, a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center says it continues to receive reports of phony prize-winning notifications containing ...

9. 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal - Wikipedia

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   Perry was the host of The Daily Number on April 24, 1980, when the drawing produced the number "666" for a then-record payout of $3.5 million (equivalent to $12.94 million in 2023), including $1.18 million (equivalent to $4.36 million in 2023) that went to eight people in on the scam. Lottery authorities and local bookmakers became suspicious ...