Guilty plea in international sweepstakes scam targeting Northern California victims
Sacramento Bee 4/29/2021 Sam Stanton, The Sacramento Bee
Apr. 29 Stan Peterson was on the phone, and he had some good news: the recipient of the call had won the lottery.
All they needed to do, Peterson said, was send in a check to cover the insurance, and their millions would be delivered to their door.
The rest of this story is not a mystery. The victims never received any prize money, court papers filed in Sacramento federal court note dryly.
The victims were older, all above 55 and considered susceptible to the age-old lotto scam, and between August 2012 and January 2018 more than 30 people fell prey to Stan Peterson and other callers, coughing up more than $8 million, court papers say.
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