You know those people who live in foreign countries and place calls into the US in an attempt to defraud people here?  Those calls your mother or grandfather receive telling them that they won $1,000,000 in the Jamaican lottery and will receive the money as soon as they wire $20,000 to cover the taxes and administrative costs?

I was very pleased to read that the U.S. extradited Damian Bryan Barrett from Jamaica and prosecuted him for his role in an international lottery scheme perpetrated against elderly victims in the United States.  The prosecution is part of the United States’ ongoing crackdown on fraudulent international lottery schemes. Continue Reading…

James Richard Currey, 55, Winter Park, Florida, was sentenced in federal court on one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with telemarketing of timeshares. Currey was sentenced to one year in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $67,137.50 in restitution to the individual victims. Continue Reading…