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Foreign lotteries or sweepstakes contests conducted by mail are illegal in the United States. Even so, U.S. postal officials last year destroyed 322,000 solicitations heading into this country, the bulk of which were from Canada, followed by Australia and Europe, says Robert DeMuro?Create of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. These are only a small percentage of all solicitations, he says. Many are disguised to cross the border without detection.
Phony Canadian lotteries are one of the top two telemarketing scams in the United States, says C. Steven Baker, director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Midwest region.
How do you spot a lottery hoax? "When someone tells you you’ve won a bunch of money and they want money from you in advance for anything, including a stamp, it’s illegal," Baker says. "Nobody ever gets any money; it doesn’t happen."
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