Victim Location 90638
Total money lost $3,000
Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes
The scammer posed as a friend of mine on Facebook on the Messenger site. Eventually started luring me to call a person by the name of Louis because this friend saw a list of Federal Max Lottery win saying that I was one of the people included on the winners. so they started texting me to provide my name, email, profession, and they sent me a text that has choices for winning the lottery from 40,0000 to 180,000 with a fee that ranged from 1,000 for 40,000, 3,000 for 84,000 and the list goes on. Asking me to go to the Western Union to pay the recipient and no physical address is needed nor the zip code. After I paid for 3,000 and afte that, soon did I realized I was scammed and it was too late to take back my money.