These scams start small and quickly “snowball” into a more elaborate scheme, chaining different techniques together.

Online lottery service TheLotter US has warned its customers about potential phishing scams and fraudulent sites.

Manoj Chhetry, from Woodbridge, won a jackpot prize worth $4,303,499 in the Dec. 22 drawing for the Merry Money Mania game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 22 news release. Chhetry told lottery ...

Financial scams are an ever-present threat, and the scammers are only getting more skilled, evolving their tactics to take ...

A fifth suspect in a lottery scam investigation has been arrested after a police chase in Gulf Shores, according to the ...

Senate Finance Committee members say they suspect money laundering, possible other crimes, and suggest Texas Rangers ...

MICHAEL, IT’S GREAT TO CATCH UP WITH YOU AGAIN. LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS NEW LOTTERY LETTER SCAM. WHAT’S SO UNIQUE ABOUT THIS ONE? WELL, WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS ONE IS THE WAY THAT THEY ...

All of the men are either current or former residents of Baldwin County and are Jamaican nationals in the country legally, ...

Thinking the call was a scam, the player thought of a way to verify the news. “I’m going to look it up while you’re on the phone with me,” the Lawrence County man told the person on the phone. He went ...

Really, we saw this fraud scheme across the country.” Still said lottery scams like this are becoming more common, and authorities are working to stop them before more people become victims.

Ten former and current residents of Baldwin County living in Foley, Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are the target of a two-year ...