KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) – Jamaica announced a new government task force Thursday to fight proliferating lottery scams that have made the Caribbean country a center for international telemarketing fraud ...

The police have arrested and charged a 52-year-old man who was wanted in connection with an overseas employment scam that ...

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) – The 88-year-old retired Coast Guard officer hadn’t been outside the U.S. in decades. Yet phone calls started pouring in from Jamaica, dangling the prospects of huge ...

The alleged mastermind behind a major overseas employment racket has been captured by the police. Horace Haughton was captured Tuesday evening during a police operation in the Corporate Area. He is ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Money transfer company Western Union is temporarily shutting down its services in a northern Jamaican parish that is the hotbed for a multimillion-dollar lottery scam that ...

Scammers also have already spent a lot of the victims’ money, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Nick Chase. "The fraudsters in Jamaica are living lavish lifestyles. They're having parties where ...

A Rhode Island woman who transferred money from lottery scam victims in the U.S. to Jamaica by taking cheap flights she got through her airline job could face a lengthy prison term when she’s ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — All of the 13 suspects arrested in what authorities believe is the first large-scale Jamaican lottery scam to be prosecuted in the U.S. have now entered pleas in federal court.

The Jamaican legend was one of over 200 clients who lost large amounts of money with the private investment firm, Stocks and ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Two elected officials in Jamaica have been accused of participating in a multimillion dollar lottery scam that has targeted elderly Americans. Rioters set several Waymo ...