Have you been receiving emails saying that you have won millions of dollars from a Heineken lottery or because Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, or some other celebrity wants to get rid of that cash burning holes in their pockets? How do scammers get hold of your personal email address to send you lottery and sweepstakes scams? Does it mean that sweepstakes you’re entering are selling your information?

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Subscriber Account active since. When they first met on Match. He would sent Yin messages telling her she made his life “extraordinary. Yin’s story is not uncommon. Just this week, a woman in England came forward c laiming she was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by a fraudster who was posing as Hollywood actor Jason Statham. And in February, an Illinois woman said she lost tens of thousands of dollars to a scammer who posed as actor John Travolta.

He said that professional internet scammers buy sets of scripts that last several months and direct them as to what to say when. Scammers then target men and women through dating apps, posing as widows, military men, and lonely women in hopes of finding vulnerable victims to seduce into giving them thousands of dollars. In a BBB study called “Online Romance Scams,” Baker acquired scripts that were cited as evidence in a trial against Olayinka Sunmola, of Lagos, Nigeria, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to defrauding at least 30 women.

You spark up my entire thinking faculty,” one email in the script read. Another said: “I see us together before the end of this week.