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CT Lottery ignored warnings that game was vulnerable to fraud, investigation findsNews Story
Connecticut Lottery officials knew in January of 2015 that there was a way for retailers to illegally access the numbers of the 5 Card Cash game on their computer screens and manipulate tickets but waited 10 months to notify the Department of Consumer Protection that fraud was occurring. At a legislative hearing Tuesday morning Connecticut Lottery Corp.'s chairman and acting president, Frank Farricker, acknowledged that lottery officials put revenues over security issues concerning the game,
May 2, 2017, 4:38 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Internal investigation concludes Tipton acted alone to rig lottery drawingsNews Story
An internal investigation into a national jackpot-fixing scandal has concluded that a single former lottery employee was responsible for any drawings that were manipulated, but it failed to uncover proof of his guilt. The report for the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) found that the group's former security director, Eddie Tipton, worked independently to commit any fraud without help from current or former employees. But investigators also said they failed to determine how he pulled it
Aug 10, 2016, 9:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

US Senate panel demands info in lottery scandalNews Story
A U.S. Senate oversight panel demanded Wednesday to know how state lotteries are increasing their security measures after an insider allegedly rigged jackpots for years to enrich himself and associates. Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, said the allegations of fraud in lottery games offered for sale around the country raise serious concerns. Yet he said it's not clear what the Multi-State Lottery Association, an Iowa-based nonprofit that admin
Jun 22, 2016, 7:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Pennsylvania judge and friends win $291M Powerball jackpotReply
This seems like a inside Fraud to me!!! No wonder why Cynthia O Connell got canned I'm not playing anymore they cheating and the Michael Tipton case blew the cover off the whole MUSL fraud operation fake winners!! #rigged
Mar 6, 2016, 4:10 pm - Thegreenpirate - Lottery News

Confirmed NYS Lottery under investigation for possible fraud scratch offs game 596
Well I am so excited. I received a phone call today from the chairman of the racing and wagering committee this morning. The Chairman, Honorable Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow, has decided to investigate my claims of fraud and manipulation for the Game 596 1 million dollars a year for life scratch off. If you have been following my posts you know what I have discovered and uncovered and I presented it to over 150 investigatory agencies. I am so excited that maybe, just maybe my claims will be found
Mar 3, 2016, 12:52 pm - rgse90 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

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

Illinois: 6/1 - 6/30/2010Reply
These people have no shame in their rigged lotteries. All of the houses are guilty of fraud today. This conspiracy ring needs to be dismantled and they should all be audited, with everyone responsible being jailed for large-scale fraud. What better way to steal from people than rendering millions of tickets non-winners because they have decided to play the same thing they already played a few days ago?
Jun 12, 2010, 10:36 pm - tmead - Pick 3 Forum

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