Victim Location 75701
Total money lost $8,568
Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes
"2nd prize winner of USA Mega under the international sweepstakes draw." Serial# 8079109 was attached to his name. Winning# was 77-64-98-67-44. Claim# CA-944-774-ZZ Mary White, Promotion Manager was on the letter he received.
$450,000 was supposed to be your winnings delivered by a special courier (delivery date has changed as they have continued to ask for more $$ for different purposes. Robert Newman told him to send 4 money grams. He sent one from CVS (Troup Hwy & Loop 323 in Tyler TX) to Linda Cather ($1058) & three from Walmart (Troup Hwy in Tyler, TX) to Sadiq Seyilaw ($1000), Dare Burkola ($1030) and Patrick Ross – ($980) all in Ireland. Ireland address is 2174 Main Ave, Waterford, Ireland. CVS & Walmart didn’t require addresses or any information more than their names to send the money. These were sent on 6/11/19 and 6/12/19. Envelope was plain white with no name or address. John Williams was supposed to deliver the winnings at 9:30am yesterday, but changed the delivery time and once again because he was trying to get more funds from Mr. ***.
Robert Newman told him he had to pay ($2500 then $1250 and finally $500 when Mr. *** said he didn’t have the money) to wire Sadiq Sevilaw and then call Mr. Newman at (236) 883-1698. He has an accent and said he was located in Washington DC.