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Foreign Lottery Scam Shut Down By Cross-Border FTC/Mounties Prosecution |
October 9, 2004
Previously published on November 10, 2003
On October 29, 2003, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it had joined forces with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to prosecute a ring suspected of preying on elderly U.S. consumers. A joint investigation by the FTC and RCMP led to the filing of a complaint charging five defendant companies, and the brothers who acted as their co-directors, with using deceptive telemarketing to defraud the elderly out of millions of dollars by fraudulently claiming they had won a foreign lottery, then requiring the consumers to pay various up-front fees before their winnings could be collected. Little money was ever paid to the victims of the scam.
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