Chula Vista police and local District Attorney investigators helped Los Angeles authorities break a so-called “Latin lotto scam”, in which four subjects allegedly persuaded at least 10 Hispanic women of age advanced to be given money
and other valuables as collateral for charging existing “winning” lottery tickets, authorities said last Monday.
According to court records, a victim in the case of Chula Vista withdrew $ 14,000 from his bank account he planned to give to the suspects before realizing he was probably being scammed.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted the four alleged scammers earlier this month on charges of electronic fraud. The kbc lottery manager whatsapp number four suspects are Colombian citizens, three women of 38, 43, and 68, and a 49-year-old man, who lived in the
Los Angeles area.
One of the defendants was captured in August in San Diego and initially charged in a state court, before those charges were dropped and prosecuted under a federal case.
The accusation specifically charges the quartet with frauds committed against six victims, although authorities say they have linked the group with scams of at least 10 victims in Chula Vista, Long Beach and at least seven other cities
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