Organized lottery fraud ring led by one woman nets over six figures in damages
By Kate Northrop
A Missouri woman was indicted by a federal grand jury for orchestrating a conspiracy to buy nearly 2,000 lottery tickets with stolen credit cards, totaling over $116,000 in fraudulent winnings and purchases.
On Wednesday, Amy Young, 31, was charged in a two-count indictment in Springfield, Missouri, related to a scheme she conducted to defraud the lottery of cash prizes.
Young was accused of stealing credit cards and using them to buy lottery tickets at a Phillips 66 Fuel Station in Joplin, Missouri between July 22 and Aug. 18, 2022.
FBI investigators found that she enlisted the help of co-conspirators to cash in tickets that won cash prizes, as well as file claims for tickets holding prizes large enough that required a ticketholder to contact the Missouri Lottery. Those aiding Young kept a portion of the winnings for themselves and handed over the rest of the money to her.
Using stolen credit cards, Young had purchased at least 1,957 lottery tickets valued at $62,082, the indictment states. She and her co-conspirators received $54,248 in cash prizes from tickets purchased with the cards.
Factoring in the fraudulent credit charges and the fraudulently received lottery winnings, Young and her fraud ring received at least $116,330, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri said.
Young is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of wire fraud. She has not yet been declared guilty or innocent. Evidence supporting the charges would have to be presented to a federal trial jury in order to determine her guilt or innocence.
Hmmmm, I have to wonder if she worked for the Post Office.?
Stoopid criminal, Everybody knows lottery tickets are a losing proposition.
Shame and a scandal.
SMH!
Ooh my goodness, she was so close to breaking even.
62K in ticket purchases and,
54K in winnings.
8K in losses.
That's very impressive given the odds.
I wonder what their strategy was.
So, the FBI nabbed her. "She has not been declared guilty or innocent." Do the Feds
go around arresting innocent people? They got her dead to rights!
the strategy was using someone else's money.
Wonder whut reasoning the Fedz are using to arrest HER, but NOT LOz for fraudulently riggin/pilfering we Lottery Playerz...indeed a double number there..
I wonder how many of her followers were men?
I bet the majority.