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    Government ministers get called

    up to the big house

    http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...ad/lead10.html
    Government ministers for lotto scam talks in US
    Published: Sunday | February 17, 2013 4 Comments

    The lotto scam will be high on the agenda when Minister of National Security Peter Bunting and Justice Minister Mark Golding travel to the United States (US) this week.

    They will be joined by Police Commissioner Owen Ellington for a meeting with the Inter-American Dialogue group in Washington DC on the Jamaican Government efforts to combat the lotto scam.

    The ministers are also expected to have meetings on the lotto scam issue with other agencies of the US government.
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    Lottery scam led to NJ grandmother's suicide

    Lottery scam led to NJ grandmother's suicide
    By Tom Haydon/The Star-Ledger
    on November 13, 2007 at 10:00 AM, updated November 13, 2007 at 12:29 PM Print


    Andrew Mills/The Star-LedgerA local police detective climbs down into the rocks where the body of a woman was discovered on the jetty, November 1.

    A Jamaica-based lottery scam promising a $2.5 million windfall cost Ann Mowle her entire life savings of $248,000 before the 72-year-old grandmother from Monroe decided she had enough.

    Mowle donated her clothes to charity, left her beloved toy poodle Molly at a dog groomers and drove to Spring Lake on Oct. 31. A pair of fishermen found her body on the edge of a jetty at the Worthington Avenue beach the next day. Investigators determined Mowle's death was a suicide.

    Mowle's family blames the vicious year-long con for the path to despair that ended on that Spring Lake beach.

    The money she had set aside to travel in her retirement and help her grandchildren with college costs was gone. Attempts to recover the funds with the help of authorities only led to embarrassment. In Mowle's final months, she became a recluse -- too afraid to leave her apartment and miss the phone call that would finally provide a return of her lost money.

    "You're not talking about a gullible person," said her daughter JoAnn Trivisonno, of Virginia. "You're taking about a fearless woman. If this could happen to her, it could happen to anyone."

    Mowle, a college graduate who raised three children as a single working parent, received the first letter promising a $2.5 million jackpot in October 2006. To collect, she had to pay $18,000 in fees, which Mowle sent. From there, the scam spiraled out of control with a barrage of phone calls from the con-artists who duped her into sending more cash.

    As a former bookkeeper at Princeton University, Mowle kept meticulous records of her year-long deception by the phony Jamaican lottery officials.

    Mowle left the documents in a tidy stack on her dining room table in her apartment at the Rossmoor adult community before she left for the last time. The records detail more than 50 wire transfers ranging from $158 to $4,750 to addresses in Jamaica between October 2006 and June.

    Despite the paper trail including names and phone numbers, investigators have had little luck in tracking down the scam-artists behind the ploy.
    Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else - Vince Lombardi

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    • #3
      Mowle, a college graduate who raised three children as a single working parent, received the first letter promising a $2.5 million jackpot in October 2006. To collect, she had to pay $18,000 in fees, which Mowle sent. From there, the scam spiraled out of control with a barrage of phone calls from the con-artists who duped her into sending more cash.

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      • #4
        Not a gullible person????

        How yuh fi win lottery yuh never enter?

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        • #5
          This is what we are wasting the little resources we have on...idiot yanks...

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          • #6
            Jamaican gangs have done very well scamming elderly gullible persons.
            Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else - Vince Lombardi

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            • #7
              Only an idiot would send $250,000 to someone on the promise of a $2.5 million payout...

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              • #8
                It sound ruff, but what other conclusion can be valid???

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                • #9
                  Or somebody elderly that may not be in full command of their faculties..

                  It happens... check in here in about 35 years..

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                  • #10
                    Not in command of their faculties but keep detailed records on the scam? Sounds more like extreme avarice to me

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                    • #11
                      There is a reason people prey on the Elderly..

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                      • #12
                        Because they keep detailed records? No...because they are retired and realize they haven't saved enough to live like they want to...goes right back to avarice...

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                        • #13
                          <Why are older people especially vulnerable to becoming victims of fraud? A new UCLA study indicates that an important clue may lie in a particular region of the brain that influences the ability to discern who is honest and who is trying to deceive us.>

                          It is not a joke ting. Cease the flippant attitude.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Muadib View Post
                            <Why are older people especially vulnerable to becoming victims of fraud? A new UCLA study indicates that an important clue may lie in a particular region of the brain that influences the ability to discern who is honest and who is trying to deceive us.>

                            It is not a joke ting. Cease the flippant attitude.
                            Yuh sounding rather SkengDummyish now enuh

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                            • #15
                              Me or UCLA ??

                              You believe avarice increases with Old Age ?

                              Point to the study...

                              The worst form of scum are those that target Children and the Elderly.. gun shot fi dem b u m b o claut....

                              Scrap dat.. waste of bullets.. bungle dem up and fling innah di bauxite red mud lake dem..

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