AG Derek Schmidt of Kansas State along with Officials of Kansas Lottery lately cautioned local residents regarding offshore lottery frauds, which were presently circulating online, published LJWorld.com dated December 21, 2011.
Actually according to the Attorney General, state officials got reports from numerous Kansans regarding offshore lotteries. LJWorld.com published this.
The AG's office said that scammers through an e-mail alternatively phone-call informed the potential victim that he was winner of enormous prize-money within a sweepstake else drawing, conducted in a different country. Thereafter they told the so-called winner for wiring a specified sum of money for being used as taxes alternatively towards claiming the reward. However, the fraudsters were likely soliciting details of the victim's bank account too so they could carry out illegal withdrawals.
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