well california lottery has to go their own investigation with a fine tooth comb and make sure that no one handed over the ticket to mr.luis osejo and in fact he is the original buyer of the ticket,if he is then no problem he will get the money

I'm hoping Luis Osejo gets his prize  I buy many tickets and from so many different places and I never check them immediately,

I check them every other sunday. That can be a problem if I went to claim a big prize and

they asked me when and where I bought the ticket and cannot remember  I hope the

stores cameras are not just fakes to keep away the hoodlums.

even if everything checks out, Osejo is never going to see a million dollars from the lottery. He's going to get $750,000 after 25% withholding and then pay another 10% in April. So it's $650,000 after federal income tax. Thankfully California doesn't have state income tax from lottery winnings.

pffft..6 to eight weeks to get winnings????..that's pathetic

Caifornia is just checking to see if Mr.Osejo actually bought the ticket or is trying to claim the prize for someone else...like an illegal immigrant or someone else who isn't entitled to the money for some reason or other.

An illegal immigrant can cash their own ticket.

That is very true. The lottery commissions are not going to send a message to the millions of illegal immigrants that if they gamble they won't collect.

The ratio of illegal immigrants who win pales in comparison with the ratio of those who never win and since they are already here, they might as

well help us pay this voluntary tax.

In my state the tix. have a retailer # ,but not the name,

Make a list of places you buy tix, w/retailer#

If you stop at a new place write store name on back of tix. when you sign it, also appx. time of buy.

when you get home add it to your list.

Nowadays illegal immigrants have more rights and privileges than ever before.

Depending on their length of time in this country, they are able to work here legally, and apply for US citizenship.   

And of course as previous posters have stated, may legally claim a big fat lottery prize, and laugh all the way to the bank.   

Its crazy how indecisive the political parties are about illegal immigrants.

Good idea, I'll try that and if it doesnt work because of my personal weaknesses I'll just limit the places that I buy from to one.

No  maringoman

      I thought that wherever you bought the ticket   ( any ticket ),

that where it was bought,,  is in the Bar -Code, ...or all those numbers on the side of the ticket

                                       They know when it gets scanned

What we're discussing is when you're used to buying your tickets at different random places and random times and one of them turns out to be a big winner and when you go to claim it at the main lottery offices and they ask you a series of security questions such as where did you buy that ticket and what date and time. I know I'd be stumped.

This is just a guess,but I'm guessing that some illegals are afraid that they would be sent back to where they came from if they tried to cash in a million dollar scratch off ticket.My own personal thinking is that they should be deported.