Why the British Lottery commission do not sue these persons for misguiding people?

Question

Why the British Lottery commission do not sue these persons for misguiding people?

Answer 1

I guessing, since you haven't bothered to complete your thought, that you are talking about the fraudsters who pretend you have won the lottery via email?

The simple answer is they cannot do anything about it.  Typically some guy living in Nigeria goes to an Internet cafe and sends out an email using a free service like Yahoo!.  He will get some responses from some suckers giving their personal information or sending him money.  Then sooner or later he will lose his free email address when it gets closed down for spamming.

He will then keep any money sent to him, or sell any personal information he has obtained on the black market.

Can you imagine the cost of trying to get justice in a third world country?  They have issues of extreme poverty, AIDS, crime, disease, lack of basic life essentials like clean drinking water, abundant food and medicine.  Do you really think they could give a c**p that some guy is suckering some idiots into handing over their money as a 'handling fee' for some bogus lottery?

It would be an endless and impossible task to hunt these people down and prosecute them.  Every time you put one in jail, five more would pop up to replace him.  As long as there are suckers out there, the emails will keep coming.

Answer 2

If you're referring to the Advance Fee Fraud scammers who pretend to be with the UK Lotto to separate victims from their money...well...the lottery commission would have to know who to sue.

The scammers remain as anonymous as possible. They don't use their real names. They don't send you their real IDs or other documents. They often use Internet cafes, which don't require them to show ID or otherwise identify themselves. Their e-mail accounts are free, Web-based types that are created with fake details.

And when the scammers go to pick up the cash that victims have wired them through Western Union or Money Gram, the scammers don't show their real IDs. Rather, they use the test question/answer feature, which was designed to help innocent people who need cash fast after, say, their wallets or  purses containing all their money and IDs were stolen.

And if that isn't going to work, well, it's not difficult to bribe a WU or MG agent if you really want to get your hands on the cash that's coming to you.

If they use bank accounts, they're stolen accounts, so that's a dead end as well.

And because 419/Advance Fee Fraud scammers exist all over the world, tracking them down for lawsuits would be extremely difficult, if not impossible. Catching the criminals falls on whatever law-enforcement division has jurisdiction.

So...if you don't have any idea of who's running the scams, you don't know where to begin filing lawsuits. You can't even figure out which COUNTRY to file the lawsuits in, because of what I just said re: scammers being all over the world.