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What's to prevent Scientific Games or Lottery employees buying winners? It's as simple as 1-2-3 I read in the Indiana Foreman Lottery Scam that the Indiana Lotto security guard Mr. Foreman scammed the Lottery out of Millions. 1. Foreman contacted Scientifc Games for a list of winning ticket serial #s for "verification" purposes. 2. He's employee so couldn't play, but knew which book contained the 2,000,000 dollar winners. That book was shipped to southeastern Indiana store. 3. Foreman told two buddies which stores got them, and his two buddies bought out the entire supply of that "2 Million Spectacular" Scratchers from the store they knew had the winner, supplied by Mr. Foreman. The gang split proceeds. Scientifc Games and Lottery employees can, with work, access which #s are the winners and with help, they can trace and buy winners | | |
mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 13462 Posts Offline | | Posted: September 25, 2009, 4:23 pm - IP Logged | |
I remember reading about that here at LP news.
http://www.lotterypost.com/news/127545/530713 Weren't there some security changes because of that incident? * THat which happens most *
* is most likely to happen again * 
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Illinois United States Member #80904 September 25, 2009 57 Posts Offline | | Posted: September 25, 2009, 5:21 pm - IP Logged | |
Hope security is tighter. So Scientific Games manufactures the scratchers for all states or most of them? Their employees actually can go to the database at SG and say Ticket #650-041174-031 is a $2,000,000 winner? And I read many on here say the state lotteries know which batch of tickets is sent to each city or county and they control how the bigger winners are spread out around the state. IF NOT. then a scratcher produces a 1,000 books (each book with 100 tickets), and the game has 2 TOP prizes of 2-Million, and if it's all random, then there's chance that a book of tickets could be worth 4-Million, with those two in sequence. so lottery places 1 top winner in book#1-500, and one in 501-1,000, sending them to opposite corners of state | | |
Honduras Member #21312 August 29, 2005 4587 Posts Offline | | Posted: September 27, 2009, 11:37 am - IP Logged | |
Interesting...my fault for been against what you are saying, but i rather they know it than nobody know it...I wish it was someone else beside them knew it... YOu are probably saying: let it be random...It is suffice to say that the scratchoffs is like 20 times harder than Powerball...With dilligence who knows you might get lucky on Powerball but "SCRATCHOFFS" forget it...That's why i rather someone know than nobody know...would had like for the people that know to be people beside the people that work at the lottery but what can you say.... anyways i suspected that for a while now... Scientists work on many crazy things: Tell them to work on something that will make elderly women gain weight.
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United States Member #59339 February 27, 2008 66 Posts Offline | | Posted: September 27, 2009, 11:42 am - IP Logged | |
If it is a small prize, there really isn't any security. With a larger prize they would look for unusual patterns (such as someone buying all the tickets going to one particular store). Also, people talk, and that's what usually catches someone who commits the "perfect crime". | | |
Florida United States Member #23357 October 6, 2005 178 Posts Offline | | Posted: September 27, 2009, 11:38 pm - IP Logged | |
What's to prevent Scientific Games or Lottery employees buying winners? It's as simple as 1-2-3 I read in the Indiana Foreman Lottery Scam that the Indiana Lotto security guard Mr. Foreman scammed the Lottery out of Millions. 1. Foreman contacted Scientifc Games for a list of winning ticket serial #s for "verification" purposes. 2. He's employee so couldn't play, but knew which book contained the 2,000,000 dollar winners. That book was shipped to southeastern Indiana store. 3. Foreman told two buddies which stores got them, and his two buddies bought out the entire supply of that "2 Million Spectacular" Scratchers from the store they knew had the winner, supplied by Mr. Foreman. The gang split proceeds. Scientifc Games and Lottery employees can, with work, access which #s are the winners and with help, they can trace and buy winners "What's to prevent Scientific Games or Lottery employees buying winners?"
Answer: up to 50 years in prison | | |
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