On August 28, 2025, US Postal Inspectors in Connecticut arrested 54-year-old Jamaican national Christopher Gibbon for facilitating a lottery scam between December 2016 and July 2018, where:
- Gibbon and co-conspirators would send victims phone calls and emails falsely claiming they had won the lottery.
- In order to claim their nonexistent funds, the victims would be asked to send money to cover “taxes” on these winnings, which in one instance was $50,000.
Gibbon was indicted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service on July 26, 2018 but promptly went into hiding by cheating on his wife to live with a girlfriend in Springfield, Massachusetts under the alias of “Rasheqhenre Heedram,” though when he was arrested he went under the identity of “Amos Johnson.” Gibbon now faces:
- Four counts of mail fraud
- One count of bank fraud
- One count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and bank fraud.