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Jamaican lottery scams spread despite US crackdownNews Story
The 88-year-old retired Coast Guard officer hadn't been outside the U.S. in decades. Yet phone calls started pouring in from Jamaica, dangling the prospects of huge winnings from an international lottery that he had won. There was a catch, of course. He had to send a check to pay the tax on his winnings. He wired the money to Jamaica. Soon he was ensnared in a scam that may cost him his home in an assisted living facility outside Seattle. It's been heartbreaking, said Ruth Wilson, a Seatt
Apr 19, 2012, 11:43 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery winner loses ticket, awarded unspent portion from couple who found itReply
A few years ago when I match 5 of 6 in the local lottery and cashed my ticket I had to fill out a form to collect my winnings with the name of the retailer where I bought my ticket. Even though the bank would have paid me the winnings regardless of the retailer name I put on the form, an investigation later would have revealed fraud if what I signed wasn't true. Finding something that belongs to someone else doesn't make it yours. Signing a form stating you paid for something at a particular ret
Jul 25, 2009, 6:09 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

$85M sought for "defective" Virginia lottery ticketsReply
I think this is more of a fraud issue than a defect issue because the tickets weren't defective, just that the states were still selling tickets after all the top prizes were won and not telling people they were gone and still advertising that they could win the top prize.. They could very well be found guilty of fraud if this actually goes to court and if they are they're going to paying a lot more than 85 million. They'd be in their best interest to settle...
Jul 1, 2008, 10:53 am - DC81 - Lottery News

8-time B.C. Lottery winner has history of fraudNews Story
A Kamloops store clerk who won the lottery eight times over the past five years was convicted of fraud in 2001. On May 30, after a scathing report from the B.C. ombudsman on possible retailer fraud, the B.C. Lottery Corp. released the names of 24 retailers known to have won multiple prizes over the past seven years. Court records obtained by The Vancouver Sun show that one of those retailers Kulvinder Kaur Bains, 43, an employee at the Halston Market in Kamloops pleaded guilty in Augus
Jun 12, 2007, 9:29 am - Todd - Lottery News

Store owner to appeal jury's lottery decisionReply
Litigation is not a lottery but advice to buy 52 tickets at a time to win 5.2 million when the cap is 1 million is fraud if I remember correctly. They are both idots and deserve the appropriate punishments. He only wins what he wins and the seller is charged with criminal fraud. Let the punishment fit the crime. Who needs passion and posts that ignore the facts.
Mar 27, 2004, 3:41 am - jeffrey - Lottery News

Judge raps FTC over lottery ticket caseNews Story
An Ontario judge has sharply criticized the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for the way it has handled a case against a Canadian businessman who is alleged to have fraudulently sold thousands of lottery tickets across the border.Mr. Justice Arthur Gans of the Ontario Superior Court called the FTC's case against George Yemec a pittance and rapped the agency for spending months investigating Mr. Yemec to turn up allegations that don't come close to fraud. I must confess that I find this lack of a
Oct 13, 2003, 3:44 am - Todd - Lottery News

How a gaming geek with a checkered past pulled off the biggest lottery scam in U.S. historyNews Story
12-15-18-29-38-41. Eddie Tipton jotted down the numbers on a yellow sticky note as he sat at his desk in Urbandale more than a decade ago. Around him were more sticky notes filled with number sets that he carefully wrote down as they spun up on his computer screen. The numbers were generated by a cryptic two-line software code Tipton had planted in his employer's computer system at the Multi-State Lottery Association. The office building was virtually empty as Tipton ran test after test
Mar 16, 2018, 7:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery investigation highlights difficult balance between security and profitsNews Story
For more than a year while he worked at the Brick Street Market in Bondurant, Iowa, Matthew Hinrichs quietly stole lottery tickets, cashing in at least $28,000 in illegitimate prize money, prosecutors say. When he was finally caught in 2016, Hinrichs pleaded guilty to two felony counts of fraud and was ordered to pay back those winnings, plus nearly $5,000 more. Lottery officials say their layers of security allowed them to track Hinrichs' activity, providing data that was invaluable to pr
Jun 6, 2017, 2:48 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Texas man pleads guilty to fraud in lottery scandal caseNews Story
A Texas businessman has pleaded guilty to fraud and admitted to helping lottery computer technician Eddie Tipton cash jackpots in a multi-state number-fixing scheme that netted $2 million. Robert Rhodes pleaded guilty in a Des Moines courtroom Monday. Iowa prosecutors will seek two years of probation. Rhodes says he helped Tipton try to cash a $16.5 million 2010 Iowa Hot Lotto ticket but suspicious officials never paid. Rhodes agreed to testify against Tipton and his brother, Tommy Tipt
Jan 11, 2017, 4:18 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Auditors find 21 unreported wins by BC lottery retailers but no fraudNews Story
Auditors studying the integrity of B.C.'s public lottery system found 21 previously unreported lottery wins of $10,000 or more by retailers who sell tickets to the public, says an independent report released Thursday. B.C. Solicitor General John Les, who ordered an independent probe of the lottery system last May, said the discovery did not point to fraud within the Crown-owned lottery corporation that raked in $2.4 billion in revenues in the 2007 fiscal year. 'There's not evidence per se
Nov 12, 2007, 10:17 am - Todd - Lottery News