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Why doesn't the lottery allow you to keep big winners ?Reply
Many stores seem to like hanging up past big winners.( $600) So I assume there is some kind of procedure or policy of the lotto commission mailing back the big scratcher winners to the selling store for display and marketing purposes? You could ask a store how they get back all those winners for display. But doesn't seem like the lotto commission retaining the big winners is a big issue. I don't believe there is any special markings on winners, although I have not had any BIG winner to really
Feb 22, 2011, 1:07 pm - Jon D - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Do not get burned by this service station!Reply
It doesn't matter HOW many tickets he has..I'm a manager at a gas station (not the owner) and the owners usually only had 5-8 books of tickets at a time. Yes, but I bet you have several hundred tickets altogether, not less than a dozen. I would think nothing of a store that had 8 books of tickets, especially if it was in a slow area. I have been in this store three times, over the period of a couple months. The first time, I bought the last two tickets he had, in the entire store. Meaning tha
Dec 16, 2010, 6:47 am - CarHauler - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Lucky and unlucky Scratch-off ticket numbersReply
Hi, CarHauler - I have good and bad news. Good news is that I made up for the last couple days by winning $100 on Winner Green - 2 matches of $50. Number was #25. First $100 I have won on the game. I got three of the new 2nd edition Bingos - #4-6 - and #4 won $5. The rest I think lost. I say think because that brings me to the bad news.. Pennsylvania got rid of scratch off codes starting with 2nd edition Bingo! This leaves more room for clerk-related fraud and missing winners. I know I hav
Dec 14, 2010, 8:12 pm - MattfromPA - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

scratchers for tipsReply
Well, I wasn't trying to step on any toes. What made me think of this was the number of times (years ago when I bought scratchers) that I had used them to buy gas. To me a winning scratcher spent the same, just in fewer places. You are right. With more fraud and joke tickets these days, people receiving one might be more skeptical.... (trails off into Those were the days... )
Jul 17, 2007, 5:38 pm - time*treat - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Scratch off Secruity-retail levelReply
I would guess that the person who is in charge of the lottery scratch off distribution knows which books have big winners in them. If they didn't it would be possible that a series of winning ticket books could end up in one or two zip codes instead of spread out across the state. There are numbers printed on the front and back of the ticket books/rolls these must be tracking codes as well as security codes.In Maryland if you have a winner they first swipe it thru a scanner. Then they type in th
Sep 2, 2004, 1:26 am - four4me - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Unclaimed jackpots from games that ended?Reply
IMO, I think thats borderline fraud. The State Lottery Commission knows if a Jackpot ticket has been sent out for sale. When they pull old games with Jackpots remaining, im willing to bet they know if a Jackpot was pulled. Its not like the tickets get picked up, and then destroyed without the lottery commission knowing exactly what they have brought back in. Think about it this way.... What would stop them from putting out a new $10 game with a 2mil Jackpot, not releasing the winning ti
Mar 31, 2016, 6:28 am - EMTAdam - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
Yes you are stating the obvious here. I reacted to your use of the word padding. To me that suggests that you are implying that the FL Lottery is placing winning tickets in certain areas. So I'm pointing out that this would be against basic security fraud prevention protocols that all lotteries enforce, and actually not even possible (given these policies are stringently followed and collusion is kept in check; obviously there could be corruption but I don't think we can assume there is any goin
Dec 27, 2015, 7:47 pm - PendingSector - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Letter sent to 360 elected officials and investigatory agencies regarding fraud within NYS Lottery
Dec 11, 2015 To the NYS Legislative and Investigatory agencies, I a filing an official complaint against the NYS Lottery division and its distribution center GTECH. For the purposes of this complaint I am going to refer to NYS Scratch off game # 596 1 million a year for life as an example but it is for all games. NYS Lottery started game 596 in Sept of 2008. This game had 6 tops prize and 50 2nd prize winners. The end of game was called for this game for August 11, 2016, that
Dec 13, 2015, 10:39 pm - rgse90 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Can lottery organizations control the location of jackpot winning tickets?Reply
Can they? Anything is possible. Somebody somewhere along the line knows where they are. But are they? I don't believe so. The more people that know where they are, the more potential for abuse and fraud. There have been cases in the past of internal/security people engaging in this activity. But I don't believe it is widespread. You can check out some of my previous maps of Scratch Ticket Winners to see how the winners are spread out: https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/257573
Dec 23, 2013, 12:01 pm - Jon D - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

How does scratch off lottery work?Reply
I sent them the question. I'll post their answer here after I receive it. My guess is they dont know where the top prize winners are, but it is certainly possible to design a system so that the state lottery could know the exact location of all of the top prize winning tickets. I'm not sure the state lottery would want to know that information. If they dont know where the top prize tickets are, it's impossible for someone working for the lottery to commit fraud by revealing to somebody else wher
Jan 17, 2011, 11:17 am - GiveFive - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum