NY brothers charged in plot to steal $5M New York Lottery ticket

Some states sell ALL of the tickets,not just the winning tickets,to maximize profits,hence my answer.

That could be true but once all the published winners are gone most people will quit the game.

Guilty consciousness. They had to sell a lie that would be believable in their own minds and hopefully to their mark. They knew it was $5m so to them it was a far stretch to offer the customer a mere 500 or 50 dollars.

I agree with you that they didnt graduate from an Ivy League Scam Institution as Patel University so they didn't have a solid plan in place should that lucky day ever come and it did.

Perhaps one of the reasons they (the lottery) waited an extra 6 months to be more investigation is so that people in NY would forget how long the game went on with ONE outstanding big ticket........

Some of the LP members here have complained about playing that game based on ONE outstanding big winning ticket, so maybe some NY'ers here can tell us how long it went on that way??

Thats a good one... lol. lol. lol. "Lets tell a lie that WE would believe"..... lol. lol.

I agree.But they still sell the tickets because not everyone pays attention,Iowa once had a lottery ticket that sold all of the major prize tickets within a couple of months and took a bath on profits because they pulled the game.Now Iowa has a disclaimer on their scratch off tickets that allows them to continue selling them if the secnd & third place prizes are significant enough to draw the interest of the buying public.Thats why I don't buy scratchers in Iowa.I feel that its false advertisement to sell a ticket that promises a $50,000 prize when all the $50,000 prizes have already been won,

Is it possible the NY lottery had the same type of guilty consciousness, and felt compelled to pay off the boys and than later changed their minds and published stories about the incident??

This whole thing was fishy from the get-go, and many who post here thought something was wrong when the first news article appeared.

Dont you think The NYS Lottery thought something was very wrong too?  Give them some credit!  They werent born yesterday, they've seen all the scams, and they took the best steps they could to get to the real truth.  Kudo's to them.

The Lottery has an obligation to protect the lottery playing public from scam artists, and they take that responsibility seriously.  If they didn't, the lottery playing public would lose faith/confidence in them, and most likely reduce the amount of money they spend playing.  That spells DISASTER for any state's lottery, and it's something no state can afford to let happen.

Just because we cant see what their doing to protect us, does not mean they're sitting idly by and doing nothing.

So, this indefinate game was a SCAM by the State of New York.  Getting people to buy worthless tickets.  And you say other states do this too.  Most people would go to jail for lottery fraud.  But the STATE is not  a person.   I will never buy a scratch off ticket.

Oh that's right, the state would NEVER take advantage of the public in ANY way, EVER..... 

I didnt say that.

I'm just pointing out that The State of New York had better be careful with the lottery.  They need the income very badly...

Im really not saying "it was" as I dont know, but I do think someone should investigate the investigators 

Perhaps a DEPT. OF INVESTIGATON OF INVESTIGATION...... 

If there was at least one outstanding $5,00,000,000 ticket,it WAS NOT a scam.If ALL of the $5,000,000,000 tickets were already sold and they continued to sell tickets,THEN it would be a scam.

We now know that one was SOLD, just not CLAIMED.........