Three charged with operating scheme that targeted the elderly
Grand jury charged three individuals with operating a mail fraud scheme that defrauded thousands of U.S. victims, many of whom were elderly and vulnerable.
A female police constable is in custody in the United States on allegations of being the mastermind of a lottery scamming group operating in Jamaica and America.
Jamaican national sentenced to year and a half in prison, ordered to pay $267,000 in restitution for lottery fraud
Man sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Benita Y. Pearson after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and mail fraud.
Man pleads guilty to lottery scam, impersonated officers as part of the ruse
A Jamaican national pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on charges relating to his participation in a sweepstakes scheme that targeted elderly victims in the U.S.
Man pleads guilty in lottery scam that targeted older Americans
According to court documents, Antony Linton Stewart, 39, of St. James Parish, Jamaica, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
Stieve Fernandez, a 35-year old lottery fraudster, was found guilty of stealing $1.2 million. Prosecutors laid out a case that showed Fernandez used the funds to buy a home in Jamaica and a vineyard in Argentina.
Two men pleaded guilty in a lottery scam in which victims lost more than $600,000. The victims in the case, many of which were elderly, were told that had won thousands of dollars in mailers that they received.
Rajay Dobson was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for his role in a lottery scam. He was ordered to repay $881,477 as a result of the scam that targeted an older woman in Colorado.
A court found Farouq Fasasi of Connecticut guilty of running lottery and romance scams that defrauded elderly citizens. Fasasi was sentenced to 14 years in jail and ordered to repay almost $6 million.
The United Kingdom extradited three Nigerian nationals to the United States for their alleged roles in lottery, business and romance scams that resulted in more than $5 million in losses. That alleged fraud involved stealing $1.6 million from a university in North Carolina.
