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Friday, 06 February 2009
Police Departments across the United States (US) continue to receive reports of persons being targeted by criminals in the illegal lottery scam operating in Jamaica.
Sources told RJR News that <span style="font-weight: bold">the scam has penetrated almost every state in the US.</span>
Since the scheme reared its ugly head, <span style="font-weight: bold">hundreds of people in the US have been fleeced of millions of dollars</span>.
Many pensioners have lost their life savings and there has been at least one report of a grandmother committing suicide after being faced with the loss of her retirement stash.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Now the criminals are aggressively targeting residents of Jackson in West Tennessee.</span>
"Cases are still under investigation but I can say that local residents have received calls regarding monies won in a Jamaican lottery and they were instructed to send funds to Jamaica through Western Union," said Randy Lampley, Lieutenant in Charge of Financial Crimes at the Jackson Police Department.
And Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green, who is in charge of Major Crimes in Jamaica, told RJR News the lucrative scam continues to mushroom.
According to him, teenagers in the country are also cashing in.
"The biggest problem we have is that a lot of these are conducting over cellular phones which makes is hard to trace the subscribers and who are using the cell phones ... <span style="font-weight: bold">we've had reports that young children, some even on playgrounds have been involved in this for some time but it's mainly teens</span>,"
he said.<span style="font-weight: bold">The police believe the illegal activity is at the heart of many of the murders committed in the western end of the island. </span>
who in Jamaica has my office# ? 
(with an unmistakable Jamaican accent)... he had an important message for me regarding a lottery ...I can only imagine the look on his face when I told him he was a liad and to GDAB 
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