you are watching video of an historic
international effort to combat fraud
this plane delivered Damian Baron that
Jamaican citizen to the u.s. to face
charges for conning people into
believing they had won a lottery and
needed to send him money to collect the
winnings
that was the first time somebody has
been extradited from Jamaica for lottery
fraud investigators have been working
for years to track down the Jamaica
based ringleaders behind these lottery
sweepstakes scams they got a break in
Florida when they arrested a middleman
acting as a money mule for a gang in
Jamaica the phone number that was
calling all the victims that were
sending him money was also calling him
so now we knew that he was communicating
with whoever it was that was calling the
victims and being instructed to receive
money at that point inspectors were able
to send information to a task force in
Jamaica that eventually found Barrett
they found composition notebooks with
information from our victims in it the
u.s. requested Barrett to be extradited
to face charges the a tradition
processes you can well imagine it's a
very long and complicated process you're
asking another country to turn over
their own citizens to a foreign nation
for prosecution authorities estimate
Barrett may have defrauded ten people
out of more than $100,000 we absolutely
intend to to go after everybody in the
United States and Jamaica and anywhere
else we're committing these crimes
against our vulnerable elderly
population postal inspectors say they
are dealing with thousands of lottery
fraud cases simultaneously the crime
often targets lonely elderly victims and
the con artists are ruthless once they
get them talking on the phone to develop
that level of trust from the victim and
the victims of course are vulnerable and
then they will once to have the hook in
them they get him to send money
experts say family friends and neighbors
should be on the lookout for any signs
that point to a senior citizen being
lured into a lottery scam it is hard to
get these victims to accept that this
isn't true and it's not because
greedy or because they're mentally
challenged or because they you know they
don't understand it's because these
callers these scammers have a grip on
them and if there's no one else to
offset that in these victims lives then
it's difficult to break that grip