A Cleveland woman thought she'd hit the lottery, but when she smelled a rat, she decided to do something about it.

LaTanya Gantt spent $5 to enter a foreign lottery, and received a letter saying she won $500,000.

"Once I started to look into it, it started to unravel. I knew it was a scam as soon as I started asking questions," says Gantt.
 
So she started recording calls with the money men. They sent a check for $4,900. Then they asked her to start sending them money back.

The following is a transcript form a recorded call:

LaTanya: What are all these fees for?
Caller: "Fees are for--to insure your money, ma'am."
Caller: "2,000 of it go to legal fees."
Caller: "and 2,400 go to that insurance."
Caller: "For security reasons, I would like you to say it's going to a family member or a friend."

The check they sent bounced.

LaTanya is a quadriplegic, and her house is in foreclosure. She thought this might solve some of her problems, but with the help of her brother, who is a police officer, she's doing her own investigation.

She says she wants to make sure that, "they don't get to hurt anyone else with their hopes high."
 
Investigators see foreign lottery scams all the time, and often people end up sending the conmen money.