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If you ever win the lottery, you may want to take a few pointers from the latest Jamaican Super Lotto winner on how to protect your privacy. Before winning the $1 million (USD) Super Lotto jackpot on ...

A Jamaican national who convinced a southwest Washington retiree she had won millions in a fake lottery — then spent years ...

BISMARCK — A woman who federal authorities said was a key player in a Jamaican lottery scam that victimized people across the country was sentenced in Bismarck on Wednesday, July 10, to four years in ...

HARVEY, N.D. (AP) — A 90-year-old North Dakota woman who was robbed of her life savings by a Jamaican lottery scam says she has been paid back only $287 of the $400,000 she’s owed. Edna Schmeets of ...

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) – The 88-year-old retired Coast Guard officer hadn’t been outside the U.S. in decades. Yet phone calls started pouring in from Jamaica, dangling the prospects of huge ...

A Jamaican national was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday for wire fraud from his lottery scheme that cost an ...

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A lottery winner in Jamaica who seemingly wanted to remain anonymous chose quite the mask to conceal his face. Dressed in a mask of "Ghostface" — a character in the "Scream" movies with a signature ...

BISMARCK, N.D. – A Jamaican man who authorities said masterminded a lottery scam that defrauded at least 95 Americans out of more than $5.8 million was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison.