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Ontario lottery winners: remember when you bought the ticket ... or else
Ontario lottery winners: remember when you bought the ticket ... or elsePosted: 10/22/2008 2:48:30 PM  A Canadian lottery corporation in Ontario is withholding a Windsor man's $100,000 winnings because he couldn't remember the date and time he bought the ticket.
Christopher Longden, 54, won the prize in the Sept. 6 drawing of the Super 7 game, and took a day off work to travel to Toronto to collect his prize, the Windsor Star reported.
During the interview with Ontario Lottery and Gaming officials that is mandatory for all prizes above $10,000, Longden said he bought the ticket at his neighborhood 7-Eleven store.
When he was asked about the date and time of purchase, he said he went blank.
"I don't know anybody that would remember the exact time and date they bought them," he told the newspaper.
Nearly three weeks later, Longden sent OLG a copy of the store's security camera video showing him making the purchase
But, he still hasn't been paid.
OLG executive director of communications and public relations, Rula Sharkawi, told the Star she couldn't comment on the situation because it's under investigation.
"Nobody should have to go through this," Longden said. Source: UPI
Indiana United States Member #49185 January 7, 2007 1157 Posts Offline |
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Incredible. You would think a security tape would do it, but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Gonna win.
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Idaho United States Member #56982 November 21, 2007 1866 Posts Online |
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Wow. I hope the guy gets his money soon since they have on tape him buying his tickets. There should be no reason to not give him his money.
I have a question. Is the date and time not printed on the tickets in Canada? Because here in Idaho, a timestamp with the date and time the ticket was purchased is on the bottom of the ticket. So basically, one just needs to look at their ticket to determine when they bought it.
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United States Member #15415 May 10, 2005 262 Posts Offline |
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S.E.Iowa United States Member #59008 February 18, 2008 366 Posts Offline |
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There must be more to this story.Maybe he's suspected of stealing the ticket from someone else.Maybe the tape is of him buying a ticket...but is it THAT ticket?Something is missing in this story because the lottery wouldn't be allowed to refuse payment without a reason.A lottery ticket is a bearer instrument,meaning that the bearer of the ticket can claim the prize.For the lottery to refuse payment they must know something that we don't know.
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New Member United States Member #49745 January 25, 2007 13 Posts Offline |
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Let's go to the video tape and get a lawyer.
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United States Member #10921 January 23, 2005 772 Posts Offline |
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In nj there is no timestamp, only is the date of the drawing the ticket is for. There are numbers and barcodes on the bottom but if that is a timestamp I wouldn't know how to decode it, and also the agent number is on there. I try to keep track of where/when I play. I like to cash in at the same Store I bought from. I never heard of this before, or seen timestamps on any tickets in nj or surrounding States I play in. Just to play it safe I will take a photo of where I played and of the ticket so this way I can have no problem recalling the information. If someone plays in all different places like me then it might be hard to remember especially if the ticket was bought a while back, maybe he was checking old tickets and found the winning one from a few weeks ago.
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Australia Member #37542 April 11, 2006 276 Posts Offline |
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YEAH something is suspicious here, time will tell. maybe its standard questions and hes 1st not to answer str8 out.?
if there is no other claimant, how can they refuse payment of a bearer instrument? i look at all lotteries as a 50-50 chance,
either i win or i don't
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NY United States Member #24178 October 16, 2005 1471 Posts Offline |
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They could refuse payment, because a bearer bond doesn't mean what most people think it means, but they aren't refusing payment. The delay is a result of their new rules because of insiders winning too many prizes. There's an article with more info here:
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=05c5068b-bb69-4f8f-8298-4915eb0ea20f
@ scarychick: Some lotteries print the time on the ticket and some don't. I can't figure why any of them do, other than complete stupidity. The lottery knows when and where the ticket was issued, right down to which terminal if the retailer has more than one, so they certainly don't need to print it on the ticket. In the event there is some dispute over ownership, where and when it was bought would be among the most basic security questions.
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Canada Member #2913 November 23, 2003 463 Posts Offline |
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I'm here in Ontario and it'strue.
The tickets barcode will have all that info, but awhile back it was foundthat the lotto retailers were winning more than the odds said they should - a universityof Toronto mathematician said the odds of the retailers winning that much was aTRILLION TRILLION TRILLION to 1 – yes that many TRILLIONS – so there was obviouslyfraud ie theft by the retailers – ie someone, maybe an older person, gives theticket to the retailer and says did I win. Retailer would say ya only $100,when it was in face $10000 etc.
Sio now all tickets must be signed and big money then you must remember therough time and place where you bought it.
A retailer claimed a $3.5 million prize but couldn’t remember where and whenhe bought it – so they took all his money in bank and houses etc and the realwinners got it.
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