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It largely targets the elderly because they have accumulated their money over a lifetime are often isolated and lonely and sometimes are suffering from dementia. Another is still in jamaica awaiting extradition and three others remain fugitives.

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The scam began to unravel when a woman in the north dakota town of harvey lost her life savings of more than 300000 in 2011.

The Jamaican Lottery Scam English Edition Book Free. Jamaican authorities have been attempting albeit unsuccessfully to crack down on this crime for a few years. That kind of money makes the scam stubbornly hard to eradicate. A frugal man jessen retired in 1978 setting aside enough money through the years to survive on.

It is also sad to say a former policeman is among the eight who were ordered. Federal authorities began investigating in 2012. Eight jamaican lottery scammers were extradited to the united states earlier today wednesday the 26th of april 2017.

Fraudsters have amassed large fortunes by manipulating their victims some earning up to 100000 us a week. According to the maine attorney generals office the jamaican lottery scam was near the top of the list of consumer complaints see the maine attoney generals video program describing this scam and others. Rochester man the money mule for jamaican lottery scam.

The jamaican lottery scam is one of the most pernicious scams around. Dont let this happen to you. Lottery scams prey on the vulnerable and help fuel violence in jamaica.

A person may receive a telephone call from jamaica or another country indicating that theyve won a prize in a foreign lottery or contest. Scammers frequently target the elderly or those with disposable income. Victims are told to wire the money to jamaica or even send it by mail.

It is estimated that jamaican scam artists operating phony lotteries steal more than three hundred million dollars a year from americans. Well there is a new one targeting the elderly it is the jamaican lottery scam aka 876 scam named after the telephone area code for jamaica. A woman who federal authorities said was a key player in a jamaican lottery scam that victimized people across the country was sentenced in bismarck on wednesday to four years in federal prison.

As a result some people have been bilked out of thousands of dollars in this scam. Jamaican lottery scam ringleader pleads guilty. So they are especially vulnerable when a caller excitedly calls.

Often it is the elderly who are targeted. A ranch hand a blacksmith who built his own home more than 70 years ago even a survivor of a lightning strike. Jamaican lottery scams often start as 876 calls.

The most prevalent in jamaica is the lottery scam where scammers lead victims to believe they have won a drawing or lottery but the cash or prizes will not be released without upfront payment of fees or taxes. Henry jessen now 99 years old has lived quite a life. The jamaican perpetrators of the scam can be threatening and relentless.

How the scam works.

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