There is no hole in hell deep enough or dark enough for the m@therf@ckers who did this!🤬

[Floyd R. Turbo]

RCMP say a couple in Nanaimo, B.C., who thought they had won more than $18 million and a luxury vehicle in a lottery were instead scammed out of almost $400,000.

A statement from police says the couple, who are both in their late 80s, were contacted by phone early last year.

They were told they had won $18.5 million and a Mercedes-Benz but would have to pay administrative fees in order to collect.

Over the year, police say the couple received official-looking documents and weekly calls from the scammers directing them to pay taxes and other fees through bank drafts sent to various addresses.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/nanimo-seniors-lose-lottery-scam-1.6380234

[MineralMan]

1. Very sad for those people.

Preying on the naïve is as old as time.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Sad but true!

[Ohio Joe]

3. That is plain shitty...

I hope they catch the pricks.

[malaise]

4. There's a lot of that shit here

I actually received a call once. I told the guy on the other end that I hadn't bought a lottery ticket and that my phone was being monitored by Interpol. They never called back.

[Beakybird]

5. I knew a very old Guatemalan nanny who lost her life savings like this.

It was just $10,000, but that was enough to go back to Guatemala and buy a little home in her village to spend her last days with her family.

[Demovictory9]

6. 2 months ago, i posted about an elderly woman losing $700k

To scammers