Mega Millions Lottery and Sweepstakes
Complaint 135890 Details

  • Date Occurred: 04/16/2014
  • Reported Damages: $2,000.00

The complaint is against an online dating profile

The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity

The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity

The company or person contact no longer exists

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Starting in March 2012 I had a family problem when my daughter who lives next door in my home had her hot water heater blow up. We went everywhere trying to get the funds to fix this problem. Finally, in early in April my Church heard about it and one of the members fixed it for no cost. But I was suddenly aware of how little we had, in regards to money, for emergencies. Somewhere in this time I received some lottery flyers in the mail. I decided to try a couple, these were in the United States. After awhile my name was circulated and I started to receive 10-to 20 a day offering all these contests. First it was out of Nevada and before I knew it, it is from Jamaica . By phone, saying they were connected to the group in Nevada. I received 10 to 21 calls a day. Which after I fell for their sweet talking. I am 73 years old, a widow, disabled and unable to work anymore, and wanted more than anything to improve my life and my families lives. So I entered several contests, and the phone calls went up to 40 to 100 a day. I started winning huge amounts of money. The first was 2.5 million, then 4 million and this went on and on, They supposedly came to my home town many times, then they wanted green dot cards for $500-$250-$150 and finally $100. They would say they
had to pay taxes and fees to get the funds released from U.S. Customs or the FBI and
they could not come to me until these fees were paid. They would be all excited and saying they could not wait to give me these million dollar prizes. Then I would get the
green dot cards, go to Western Union and send the money on the cards to their boss.
They never showed up. They had all kinds of stories as to why. The most common was that they came to my house, and I was not home, and they had to return home by plane that night. They even told me what my house looked like, what the weather was like, and all kinds of stories. When I said I was not going to do it anymore they played me a recording saying the total of my winnings was 88 million dollars. I have not talked to them since. They still have a couple of them call me every day, several times.
When I got angry with them about all their supposed trips here and no one ever appears and all I did was pay more and more money out to them and I was fed up, they said how sorry they were and they really wanted to help me and deliver my packages.
Also they would like to help me and get this very wealthy friend of theirs in the U.S. to send me a refund of all my payments. So a week later I get a check for $7000.00 dollars from a Andrew J. Roissing, 322 Somers Rd. Hampden, Ma 01036. I went on the internet and found this person, and the address was correct, the phone number was not,
he had listed it as 413-355-0897 wrong number supposedly. I called it, a man answered but said he was not this person and did not know who he was. So I took the check to the bank and told them about it, they took the check to see if it was any good. They called me and said the bank account had insufficent funds and could not cover the check. They have placed the check on hold and I am not sure what they are doing with it. It is at Alaska Credit Union in Oak Harbor,Wa or Alaska CU in Anchorage AK. Also around this time I entered 6 sweepstakes, processing fee, $12 each. The next thing I know is that
my bank account has been cleaned out for $561 dollars and there is nothing left until the end of May when I get paid again. It has been downhill every since. I have been house bound with a very skimpy amount of food, no money for bills, gas, or medications. I am having health problems, memory problems due to the extreme stress. My church is sending me to the doctor this Tuesday afternoon, a retired Minister I have known for
many years, came here for 2 days last week, he gave over $500 for my car insurance, as it had run out 2 weeks ago. I do have to repay him starting in Sept. $50.00 a month.
He also bought me 12 days of food to last until my next payday July 23rd. But I am behind with all my bills. For a few days I had no phone,TV,or Computer and I live out on Whidbey Island over 16 miles from the nearest town and near Deception Pass.

I used to have direct draw and deposit at my bank but when the bank account was robbed they closed the account and cancelled all the auto payments. They changed my checked ID number as that is what they had used. They had published my check on the internet with the front numbers showing, it was one of the $12 dollar checks and someone did this to me. I have no idea why. But my whole life has been turned upside down and I am at a loss. It has been the most difficult 4 months of my life due to my
stupidity and their greed. I am having the bank repossess my year old motorhome due to the inability to make any more payments of $325 a month. I will be lossing $10,000
dollars on this too. This is the worst nightmare I could ever imagine.

Thank You for taking time to read this. I don't know if anything can be done, but something needs to be done to protect our seniors. This was brutal.

Roberta Oliviero
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  • Complaints Filed: 105
  • Reported Damages: $6,551,022.77
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