Quote Originally Posted by original spanky View Post
ROB, But why are there shootings?. unfortunately there seems to be plenty of business . what are the arguments over?
one of the boys from my red ground days whom i had known since birth was shot and killed last year and i assume it was lottery related. very sad time for me.
About 80% of all gun violence on the island is lottery scamming related. The money amounts are huge, far larger than other forms of crime.

All you need is a phone and call sheets which are provided to "legal businesses" so graciously by North American credit card companies and social media outlets.

A legal business places an order from a CC or social media company requesting everyone in their huge data mined database who is over 65, widowed, likes to travel, has been to Jamaica, has a pet with a bank account of over $1,000,000. And in a few days the list with 10,000 names and phone numbers arrives by email.

Since a business needs to order the listings, someone is now in charge of the scamming. They enlist others, give them some basic scamming instructions along with where the money is to be sent in exchange for making the calls and receiving a small percentage of the money. Everything works like clockwork until it doesn't.

When those making the calls start to feel slighted, getting hundreds of dollars as they bring in 10s of thousands of dollars, they try to scam the scammer. This never ends well.