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I don't know what all the fuss is about, the store owners and employees have every right to purchase lottery tickets of all kind. I understand they have a greater advantage because they work there or whatever, but they still have to purchase the ticket. Now if I knew a particular store owner was always hitting at their store I would avoid buying s-offs at that store, cause most likely the empolyees or owners would have bought enough to secure a winner, which would leave me with losers. They also have a good advantage at p3& p4 cause they see what players are playing and play the numbers, sometimes hitting, sometimes hitting nothing. P3 & P4 will pay up to a certain point on any one combination anyway , I don't care if somebody write down my numbers and play them, cause it's not going to change what I will get if the numbers come out. I have made friends with some store employees and will ask them if they notice folks playing the same numbers, and someimes they notice and sometimes they don't. A couple of times somebody will come into the store and pluck down $100 for one set of numbers exact, yeah I wanna know what that number is so I can get in on the action. someone came into the store and told the clerk to play 319 for that night draw, she told everybody who was playing, most ignore it, but when she said it to me I wrote 1 exact and 50/50, it hit that night. The bad thing about that was, she (the clerk) forgot to play it and got nothing, although I did tip her for the tip. My point is, if the lottery officials that produces the S-offs, know that they are sending winning tickets to a particular store and is buddies with that store owner or employees, that's a problem, a big problem. I will go into my neighborhood kroger and ask them have anybody won more than $20 on a particular S-off game , before I purchase any of the same games, so I don't end up with a lot of losers. Sometimes they know, sometime they don't, cause some folks take their tickets out the door and don't s-off until they get home. Sometimes I play with the employees, we will buy the same tickets and try to win something and even share in the prize money, cause we peel off alot losers to get to a prize. Well thats my .02 cents, I don't have a problem with it.

Yes the clerks at Food Lion do that all the time. Writing down the numbers especially if you a regular and win often.  I've heard them say that the regular winners are the numbers to play.

I don't think they should be able to buy at the establishment that they work at, I won't say that they are cheating just yet because if you play a lot then you will win, but let them just play at other stores to see if they are actually winning on their own luck.

I was glad to see Dateline NBC doing that little expose on the lottery cheats in California.  But I was blown away by how New York responded to Dateline's request to do a similar investigation there.  They actually put out an alert that was printed on all online tickets that Dateline is doing an investigation. 

I would actually get a bit suspicious about multiple online winners as this could be a case of discounting (meaning the actual winner knows he/she owes back child support or taxes and doesn't want the winnings to be docked that amount, so they sell to the clerk/owner for a lesser amount so that both profit from the win).  The scratch off multiple winners are clearly fraudulent as shown by the Dateline NBC and California investigation. 

This is another reason why I will not buy any lottery tickets in NY.  The other reasons is that they pay most things in annuities only (except for Mega, don't know about the NY Lotto).  The last reason is that should you happen to be passing through NY and purchase an online lottery ticket (Mega or Lotto), happen to buy a small dollar winner that doesn't warrant a special trip back to NY to claim it but it takes you longer than 45 days after the drawing to get back to NY...don't you know that you CANNOT claim that less than $500 winner at a retailer?!!!  You have to mail it in in order to claim it.  Now if we are talking about $20 or even $150, that is no big deal...just a little inconvenient.  But if we are talking about a mere $2 or $3 winning, then the cost of postage eats up a good chunk of that...almost like they don't want people to claim those small winnings by making it so nonsensical and inconvenient.  But hey, NY is home of the crooked Democrats...just wait till you see your accumulated tax bill over the next 3 years...then everyone will be begging for a Republican president.

Obama's tax hikes are going to be stealthy...already they are cutting back the amount people can deduct for certain things.  They also are not going to do away with the AMT and next year it is slated to impact millions of middle class taxpayers...not the wealthy as it was originally intended.  A gas and energy tax hike is in the works...so that is going to impact EVERYBODY, not just those making over $250,000.  See, people just ate up everything Obama was spouting out during his campaign without THINKING about HOW he could make his grand plan come to pass.  Now Jesus was able to multiply a few pieces of bread and fish to feed a multitude of thousands...Obama the messiah can't just make money appear out of nowhere...he is going to have to dig into each and every Americans' pockets to pay for his grand plan...and we still will be in a larger deficit than his analysts project. 

Just hold on for the ride....and vote with common sense in 2012:  JUST SAY NO TO ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF OBAMA/DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP!

I was glad to see Dateline NBC doing that little expose on the lottery cheats in California.  But I was blown away by how New York responded to Dateline's request to do a similar investigation there.  They actually put out an alert that was printed on all online tickets that Dateline is doing an investigation. 

I would actually get a bit suspicious about multiple online winners as this could be a case of discounting (meaning the actual winner knows he/she owes back child support or taxes and doesn't want the winnings to be docked that amount, so they sell to the clerk/owner for a lesser amount so that both profit from the win).  The scratch off multiple winners are clearly fraudulent as shown by the Dateline NBC and California investigation. 

This is another reason why I will not buy any lottery tickets in NY.  The other reasons is that they pay most things in annuities only (except for Mega, don't know about the NY Lotto).  The last reason is that should you happen to be passing through NY and purchase an online lottery ticket (Mega or Lotto), happen to buy a small dollar winner that doesn't warrant a special trip back to NY to claim it but it takes you longer than 45 days after the drawing to get back to NY...don't you know that you CANNOT claim that less than $500 winner at a retailer?!!!  You have to mail it in in order to claim it.  Now if we are talking about $20 or even $150, that is no big deal...just a little inconvenient.  But if we are talking about a mere $2 or $3 winning, then the cost of postage eats up a good chunk of that...almost like they don't want people to claim those small winnings by making it so nonsensical and inconvenient.  But hey, NY is home of the crooked Democrats...just wait till you see your accumulated tax bill over the next 3 years...then everyone will be begging for a Republican president.

Obama's tax hikes are going to be stealthy...already they are cutting back the amount people can deduct for certain things.  They also are not going to do away with the AMT and next year it is slated to impact millions of middle class taxpayers...not the wealthy as it was originally intended.  A gas and energy tax hike is in the works...so that is going to impact EVERYBODY, not just those making over $250,000.  See, people just ate up everything Obama was spouting out during his campaign without THINKING about HOW he could make his grand plan come to pass.  Now Jesus was able to multiply a few pieces of bread and fish to feed a multitude of thousands...Obama the messiah can't just make money appear out of nowhere...he is going to have to dig into each and every Americans' pockets to pay for his grand plan...and we still will be in a larger deficit than his analysts project. 

Just hold on for the ride....and vote with common sense in 2012:  JUST SAY NO TO ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF OBAMA/DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP!

I hear ya loud and clear but did you have to shout at me! lol

I was glad to see Dateline NBC doing that little expose on the lottery cheats in California.  But I was blown away by how New York responded to Dateline's request to do a similar investigation there.  They actually put out an alert that was printed on all online tickets that Dateline is doing an investigation. 

I would actually get a bit suspicious about multiple online winners as this could be a case of discounting (meaning the actual winner knows he/she owes back child support or taxes and doesn't want the winnings to be docked that amount, so they sell to the clerk/owner for a lesser amount so that both profit from the win).  The scratch off multiple winners are clearly fraudulent as shown by the Dateline NBC and California investigation. 

This is another reason why I will not buy any lottery tickets in NY.  The other reasons is that they pay most things in annuities only (except for Mega, don't know about the NY Lotto).  The last reason is that should you happen to be passing through NY and purchase an online lottery ticket (Mega or Lotto), happen to buy a small dollar winner that doesn't warrant a special trip back to NY to claim it but it takes you longer than 45 days after the drawing to get back to NY...don't you know that you CANNOT claim that less than $500 winner at a retailer?!!!  You have to mail it in in order to claim it.  Now if we are talking about $20 or even $150, that is no big deal...just a little inconvenient.  But if we are talking about a mere $2 or $3 winning, then the cost of postage eats up a good chunk of that...almost like they don't want people to claim those small winnings by making it so nonsensical and inconvenient.  But hey, NY is home of the crooked Democrats...just wait till you see your accumulated tax bill over the next 3 years...then everyone will be begging for a Republican president.

Obama's tax hikes are going to be stealthy...already they are cutting back the amount people can deduct for certain things.  They also are not going to do away with the AMT and next year it is slated to impact millions of middle class taxpayers...not the wealthy as it was originally intended.  A gas and energy tax hike is in the works...so that is going to impact EVERYBODY, not just those making over $250,000.  See, people just ate up everything Obama was spouting out during his campaign without THINKING about HOW he could make his grand plan come to pass.  Now Jesus was able to multiply a few pieces of bread and fish to feed a multitude of thousands...Obama the messiah can't just make money appear out of nowhere...he is going to have to dig into each and every Americans' pockets to pay for his grand plan...and we still will be in a larger deficit than his analysts project. 

Just hold on for the ride....and vote with common sense in 2012:  JUST SAY NO TO ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF OBAMA/DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP!

Another nail in the coffin that goes agaibacknst NC palyers - There aren't any readable codes on the scratchers, therefore you can't verify whether or not you have a winner... I can't see all that well - and this is certainly a stab-pin-the-back... That's why I prefer scratching in VA at least it will give me a comforting code TWY = $20, TWF = $25, FTY = $50, HUN = $100, etc. etc.

WHERE ARE MY CODES NC???

Sorry for shouting all, Pogo