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Arkansas woman tries to cash in fake lottery ticket, arrested
United States Member #91 January 19, 2002 6310 Posts Offline |
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i thought the plan with fake lotto tickets is to sell to some schmoe on the street not the one guy in town who will know its a fake. ie the lottery comission. Her middle name just might be SCHMOE....She may have bought it for $2999.00 and tried to cash it in for all that extra jack!!! "Everybody has to believe in something...I believe I'll have another beer!" = W.C.Fields
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Dallas, TX United States Member #55038 August 23, 2007 170 Posts Offline |
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Eh..... Nothing new. Happens all the time, especially when a state first starts a lottery. When the lottery first started here in TX, it happened so many times that it was no longer headline news. It just goes to show that there will always be folks who believe that everyone else has just fell off the dumb azz truck bound for i-wuz-juss-bern-yes-stir-dey-ville. Y'all know where dat iz....ova dare beehine taint know bodee smark butt me.
Nothing comes to sleepers but a dream. 
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United States Member #55716 September 20, 2007 178 Posts Offline |
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It's a good thing I saw that article.
I was just about to type the winning numbers on my Powerball ticket.    "Lord, who made the lion and the lamb. You decreed I should be what I am. Would it spoil some vast eternal plan, if i were a wealthy man?"  Fiddler On The Roof
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Buffalo United States Member #54866 August 17, 2007 199 Posts Offline |
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A woman is arrested inside the Arkansas Lottery Headquarters Monday afternoon, and the local media's cameras were there for the arrest.
Police say Ruth Dennis, 56, tried to pass a fake winning ticket for the real thing at the claims center. Her friend, John Burch says he gave Dennis and her sister a ride from Camden with a $3,000 ticket.
Lottery director Ernie Passailaigue says the ticket was clearly not real. He says she used the three times lucky scratch tickets and allegedly cut and pasted different numbers to make it appear like a winner.
"There's no cure for stupid," Passailaigue said, "And that's what's going to happen. People are going to try and defraud the lottery and they're going to go to jail.
Over the past three weeks, Passailaigue says Monday's incident was the first "fake" ticket arrest in the state. He says the best way to win the lottery is to play it.
Police say the woman has been charged with one count of fraud in relation to the lottery ticket.
people will do anything for money.......
could it be that people are in desparite times and think the whole nation is Stupid as some republicans who twist the facts into
what appears as the truth ????
the lottery is no joke ...it protects its money very closely ....wonder if she will continue to buy tickets !!!!!!???
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PA United States Member #66644 October 16, 2008 114 Posts Offline |
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What is the story? Give it to us. Lotterypost usually runs the story on the latest Powerball Winner ...
Not this time for some reason ??????????????
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United States Member #10921 January 23, 2005 863 Posts Offline |
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1. They used to do that at Bingo (cut and paste) which is why now they just use the serial # in the free space to check against a database when someone wins. The only problem being you don't have time to take a sip of coffee before the next game starts.
2. Maybe the ticket came out like that from the machine? Like the Blue Moon ticket in NY?
3. Someday she can take boxing lessons from Elicia Battle.
4. What happens though, like another case in NY, the ticket is misprinted so it looks like it won a million dollars that happened to that Sopranos dude that time, didn't they just defraud the customer? What about when the computerized RNG program error blocked certain numbers in TN? Shouldn't the Lottery then be brought up on charges? Oops, Human Error.
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Australia Member #37542 April 11, 2006 428 Posts Offline |
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so is stupid a defense in the courts? I didnt think she bought hte thing off someone, but yeah prob did get scammed that way. sounded like she was accused of forging the ticket.
anyhow another sad story i look at all lotteries as a 50-50 chance,
either i win or i don't
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New Member  Hot Springs, Arkansas United States Member #82244 October 27, 2009 2 Posts Offline |
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Lock her up and throw away the key, we got too many dumb people walking the streets as it is. Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what you can do for me...
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 10551 Posts Offline |
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It's a good thing I saw that article.
I was just about to type the winning numbers on my Powerball ticket. If your Powerball tickets are printed like Ohio lottery tickets then they are printed on heat sensitive paper so numbers are literally burnt on, not typed. I doubt if such printers are any longer sold as I've not seen that kind of paper selling for years. * What happens most *
* will most likely happen again *
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Prince of Insufficient Light Ruler of Heck United States Member #13375 March 30, 2005 1357 Posts Offline |
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Our state puts all kinds of 'control' numbers on the tickets to indicate: Store number, valid date(s), total tickets sold that day, roll of paper the ticket came from, and a few more I haven't figured out yet -- all of which can be cross-referenced, of course. The story says age 56; I'd like to know how people get that old being that dumb. Modern "education" teaches a version of history so fictionalized, it should be followed by "TM"
They're warning me about Osama or whatever. Picture me buying the scam; I say "never!". 
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