Fort Mill man was told he won $50M; now, he says hes out $739K

[TexasTowelie]

YORK -- An 82-year-old Fort Mill man reported being swindled out of nearly three-quarters of a million dollars, according to a York County Sheriff’s Office report.

On May 9, a deputy reported meeting with the man at the Tega Cay Police Department about a possible fraud.

The man told the officer he has paid about $739,173 to different bank accounts in Costa Rica between April 2015 and February of this year, the report states.

The transactions began, he said, when he received a call in 2015 that he had won a sweepstakes worth $50 million, the report says.

Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/article149956527.html

[still_one]

1. of course, these assholes prey on the older and most vulnerable, not that much different than what

the so-called occupant and the republican congress is doing

[MichMan]

2. How do you win something you didn't enter?

I understand that they prey on seniors, but don't people ever question how they won a lottery or sweepstakes that they never entered?

My wife works at a bank and ever now and then someone is in trying to withdraw money to send for these kind of scams. When the bank tells them it is a scam, the people sometimes get angry that their good fortune is being questioned.