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Iowa couple arrested in lottery fraudNews Story
A Waverly, Iowa, couple is facing criminal charges for allegedly cashing counterfeit lottery tickets. Lottery officials allege Scott and Jennifer Brandhorst redeemed the forged TouchPlay tickets at a Hy-Vee store in Cedar Rapids, one for $300 and another for $325. Cedar Rapids police reportedly matched the couple with a surveillance video. Investigators arrested the pair as they were leaving their home at 1868 Dakota Ave. in Waverly on Monday. They were taken to the Linn County Jail. T
Feb 8, 2006, 3:53 pm - Todd - Lottery News

DeceptionReply
I just played 1-5-15-20-22 7 times with power up. So look for one single which has come the last 7 drawings which is totally unusal too, 2 or 3, or 4 should of appeared by now in one of those drawings but because I played 2 singles multiple times with power up that is why. ok being that two 20's just came chances are only one will come out further dismantling my format single-single- teen-20's-20's for any good possible hit 3 or 4 numbers multiple times with power up. As you seen the last 7 draw
Apr 6, 2018, 6:02 pm - stanyslaww - Pick 5 Forum

Letter sent to 360 elected officials and investigatory agencies regarding fraud within NYS LotteryReply
This, an other shady practices, is an issue endemic to all state lotteries. While I salute your effort rgse90, I doubt much will come of it. Lotteries, like all other multi-billion-dollar businesses, are very good at wriggling their way out of corruption. Allow me a moment to don my pretend Lottery-Rep cap and provide a fictional, if likely, response: Dear [Senator], The primary initiative of the [insert your favorite state] Lottery is Integrity. While we understand the issue you'
Dec 14, 2015, 8:17 pm - MrGray - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

565 lottery scammers arrested in global operationNews Story
Massive 14-month investigation spans the globe and brings more than 500 fraudsters to justice More than 2.8 million people in the U.S. paid to obtain credit cards, claim sweepstakes winnings and get in on lucrative investments that turned out to be too good to be true, officials said Tuesday as they announced hundreds of arrests in an international investigation. Authorities in five countries have arrested 565 people in fraud schemes that netted more than $1 billion. Many of those arreste
May 23, 2006, 6:41 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery scammer rigged more drawings than first thought, records showNews Story
The computer program that a former lottery security official used to rig drawings worth millions of dollars in Iowa and other states was more expansive than investigators first discovered, court records filed last week show. Eddie Tipton, a former employee of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) in Clive, wrote the code to allow him to predict the randomly drawn numbers of multimillion-dollar jackpots in as many as 17 states and claim the cash prizes. The code remained active and und
Feb 19, 2018, 6:03 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Tenn. players picked up on new odds before lottery revealed glitchNews Story
Updated! Includes illustrative charts below. Somebody knew. Or somebody caught on. An analysis of 55 million tickets played in the Cash 3 and Cash 4 lottery games shows that in August, more people started playing the numbers most likely to come up. That is the time period when a glitch in a new computerized system of picking numbers prevented duplicating combinations such as 1-1-2 or 3-3-3-3 from being drawn. A Tennessean computer analysis indicates that players either knew or figu
Oct 28, 2007, 7:43 am - Todd - Lottery News

Minnesota woman made $117,000 from illegal lottery she claimed benefitted charityReply
The problem is proving a fake cancer diagnosis on gofundme. Medical records are protected under the law so it is virtually impossible to prove fraud. The burden of proof is on the person claiming fraud. I was aware of one case where a woman faked cancer and her doctor saw the post and reported the fraud to gofundme. I know of a situation in my sister's neighborhood where a number of people suspect this one woman and her family faked her cancer diagnosis and death. They raised over 200 k. No
Sep 20, 2023, 1:20 pm - Artist77 - Lottery News

Lottery EthicsReply
Did you ever hear about this: Hot Lotto fraud scandal The Hot Lotto fraud scandal broke in 2017, after Eddie Raymond Tipton, the former information security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, confessed to rigging a random number generator that he and two others used in multiple cases of fraud against state lotteries. Tipton was first convicted in October 2015 of rigging a $14.3 million drawing of MUSL's lottery game Hot Lotto. Eddie Tipton ultimately confessed to riggin
Jun 17, 2019, 10:50 am - user34 - Lottery Discussion Forum

A call to boycott Mega Millions loto game.Reply
So, they're smart enough to come up with this ingenuous system of fraud, but not smart enough to only have the numbers hit when the jackpots are huge, not smart enough to ensure the wins are distributed equally among the states to avoid the accusation of fraud/unfairness, not smart enough to have the jackpots hit the sweet spot to ensure that their sales goals are met. Always makes one wonder why they'd go to the bother of committing such a fraud just to fail on so many levels. Oh right...becaus
Nov 7, 2017, 6:47 pm - Teddi - Lottery Discussion Forum

British Columbia Lottery taking bets on US electionReply
It is wrong for anyone to commit voter fraud..for Trump or Hillary. To keep this on a level of integrity, which will be difficult, no fraudulent vote should be counted whether by a white Trump supporter or any voter who has failed to take the steps necessary to secure a valid registration. Fraud is fraud, it hurts us all and is wrong no matter who does it.
Oct 30, 2016, 2:57 pm - dr65 - Lottery News