Lottery Scam Report from a
Victim:
Jamaican Lottery Scam
"Area Code 876", "Phone call from Jamaica"
Have you received a phone call telling you that you've won the
Jamaican lottery? All you have to do is pay the fees to release your funds!
The only problem is there is no Jamaican lottery!
This recent story in the Orlando Sentinel points out that "Americans sent
more than $30 million to this Caribbean island last year to claim winnings in a
Jamaican lottery. The trouble is there was no such contest."
Below are several reports and descriptions of the scam.
But first, heed this advice, from a police Sherriff
in this report,
who says:
"There are three things
you should look for when it comes to lottery scams like this one.
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First, if you did not
enter a lottery, you will not win one.
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Second, (playing in)
foreign lotteries are illegal in the United States.
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Third, it is illegal
for an agency to require a winner of a prize to pay in order to receive
their compensation."
This is a very popular scam with the
Jamaican scammers right now. Consumer affairs advocat,
Clark Howard, is warning about this scam, too!
Actual cases reported by victims (remember, the
names, phone numbers and addresses are often fictitious or borrowed from
real, unrelated people and businesses!):
My husband just took a phone call we strongly suspect is
a typical telephone scam: please check it out!
The call came in about 9:55 am. A man with a heavy
Jamaican accent told my husband, whom he called, "Doctor Emanuel Solon" (a
retired PhD, bench chemist, rarely uses that title, although it appears on a few
mailing labels) won some international sweepstakes prize, or something like
that. To claim it, he was instructed to call 1-876-577-2168, which we learned
afterward is in Jamaica. Claim number BF2885296.
We do not plan to call this Jamaican number, but hope
you will check it out! And if indeed it is a scam, as we suspect, shut it
down.
Another Jamaican Lottery phone call
I wish to report a PHONE scam rather than an email
one. Over the past several months, I have received several voice messages from
a Jamaican-sounding woman calling herself "Jeannine Price" who claims to be
from Jamaica Civic Aviation. She leaves me an urgent message to call her at
876/960-3948 ext 4155. She leaves no details or explanation, simply the
statement that the call is urgent.
Fortunately, I checked on the "876" number rather than
returning any of those calls & saw that this is a hot-line number for phone
fraud. Please add this number to your scam list.
Another Jamaican Lottery phone call
I have received calls on my cell phone from a Jamaican
phone number 1-876-352-0633, supposedly a Mr. Anthony Washington, announcing
that I won 1.5 million dollars from American International Winners Circle. When
I asked how I could have won, he said it was from paying my bills on time and
shopping at Wal-Mart. Yeah. Right. He asked how I felt about winning and I said
I didn't believe it, and furthermore, I had just "Goggled" the organization and
it did not exist. Mr. Washington ignored my comments and proceeded to tell me
that they would have UPS deliver my check this afternoon, and he gave my correct
address at Phone call from JamaicaPhone call from Jamaicaxx, Sarasota, FL 34242 ---- if I would send a payment through
wire to their banker, a Mr. Roy, for $550, to cover the customs and taxes; I
needed the receipt from that transaction for identification when they brought my
check. When I reiterated that I did not believe this, he asked me to call Mr.
Roy at 1-876-428-5052. When I said I was not going to call Jamaica, he said
that the number was in California. I asked him why I needed to pay customs to
send something from California. He insisted that I just call Mr. Roy. At that
point I hung up and started this report to you. If this happened on my land
line, I would block the numbers, but I called the cell phone company, and my
phone does not have that capability, so i will have to ignore the number if they
call again.
Another Jamaican Lottery phone call
My father (81 years old) has received a phone call from a
man stating his name was Jeff White (had a Jamaican-type accent). He told my
father he was the winner of $3,000,000. My sister was on the other line
listening to this conversation.
He told my father that he had to send in $700 first in
order to receive the $3,000,000. My sister asked the man about fraudulent
behavior. The man ignored my sister’s comments and continued to direct his
comments to my father, “Mr. Samuel Avakian”. My sister also asked that if this
were true, why couldn’t they send the check and subtract the $700 from the
check. He continued to ignore my sister.
His phone number was an 876 area code number.
When my sister asked to have a contact for a supervisor, he
gave a name and number as follows:
Carl Cliff, 876-470-4224
We know this is a scam, but my father is of the older
generation where he is trusting and naïve about these things and probably
willing to send the money if my sister weren’t there the time the call was
received.
Please help to stop these fraudulent acts, especially
against the elderly.
Another Jamaican Lottery phone call
My father-in-law received a call from someone named Glen
in Jamaica who told him he was to receive 2.5 million dollars and a Mercedes.
My father-in-law told him that his son would call to find out about this. I
called today and "Glen" wanted me to get a receipt from western union and wire
$475.00 to an "attorney" for the company that is giving this prize away. He
said the name of his company is Global International at 303 Carson St, Las
Vegas, Nevada. He said the attorney for the company (where I was to wire the
money to) is Gaylord Brock at 83 Welle Rd, Crockett, CA 94525. He told me that
the prize was to be delivered the next day and that the Marshalls would follow
my father-in-law to the bank to cash the 2.5 million dollar check. I talked on
the phone to "Glen" for about 20 minutes and he was full of discrepancies and
contradictions. I am worried about how much the phone call will cost me. I
have no experience with scams like this. Please let me know if this is a scam.
Thank You,
Other related pages:
Names of Scam / Fake / Fraud Lottery
Click here for the huge list of the names of the currently identified lottery
scams companies
* Re: emails of winnings. We know of only ONE exception in the world to this rule
- and if you bought a ticket from them, you would know it, and would used their
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