Swedish 52-years old woman falls for internet lottery deception

The woman, from Sundsvall in northern Sweden, was told by a gang of international fraudsters that she had won $2.5 million in a lottery.

First, the woman was told she would have to open a bank account in the Netherlands to secure the money. And there would be a fee and the woman paid up. The requests continued and the woman was tricked into handing over 460,000 kronor ($57,000) over a nine month. The woman received an email last summer that her email address had been entered into a lottery and that she had won the jackpot. After having set up the bank account, the woman waited for her money to arrive, but no funds were forthcoming and the 52-year-old then received a request for money to release a code from a consultant in the UK. The requests then continued again for the next eight to nine months. The woman was forced to borrow money from the bank to secure her lottery money. And in the end, she had paid $56,450 in total. Sundsvall police believe that the woman has a marginal chance of recovering any of her money.