12 Arrested in $25 Million Lottery Scam (ISRAEL)

12 Arrested in $25 Million Lottery Scam

By ROBERT KAHN

Twelve people have been arrested in Israel and charged with targeting elderly people in the United States in a $25 million phony lottery scheme. The gang selected victims by buying information from brokers who sold lists of people who subscribed to sweepstakes lotteries, federal prosecutors said.
The boiler room operation then called the old folks and said they had won a prize, but had to pay "several thousands of dollars in fees and taxes" to get it, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
The gang allegedly had phony attorneys call their victims to hit them up for the money. The phony attorneys used the "law office" names "Abrahams Kline," "Bernstein Schwartz," "Steiner, Van Allen, and Colt," "Bloomberg and
Associates," and "Meyer Stevens," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
The supposed lotteries were called "Clearinghouse Sweepstakes," "Consumers Clearinghouse," and other names.

Abridged

SOURCE: Courthouse News

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