Contractors steal $70,000 in lottery prize money

Comment #16

LckyLary — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:13:59 GMT

I didn't know our beloved President plays the Lottery. I do know if the Dems win the taxes on your winnings may go way up! I can envision when prizes less than $600 start getting taxed. Not to mention the Lottery has quite a big carbon footprint, all those discarded tickets, the exhaust from the fans on the machines... the real scary thing, and I predict one of these days, someday some agent with access to barcode software (or, not) will find a way to generate fake tickets with random codes th... [ More ]

Comment #15

psykomo — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:52:15 GMT

PSYKO knew it was going to HAPPEN...2U...soon!!!!!!!

(BUT>>>all YOU LP LITTLE PEOPLE know their it a BUTT out their 2...somewhere)

Here is the BUTT of the situation......................

If we have cent's enough...we will elect HILLARY^^^

back to DC to CLEAN-UP this mess for ALL of US!!

FIGHT BACK LP little people >>>>>>>>>>>>

It is BUSHishes FAULT>>>>>>stay out of the

BUSHishes

Don't ALL of yoy remember Jessie Jackson @ the

University of Georgia and he went... [ More ]

Comment #14

Captain Lotto — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:28:18 GMT

It's important to note that the crime was stealing tickets, not manipulating the drawings. People are always at risk of falling prey to corruption, which is why Lotteries work so hard on security. It was probably an internal security investigation that discovered and stopped the theiving.

It's the human element. When the payoffs are high, there will always be someone willing to take the risk. Having ball drawings alone isn't any extra protection from would-be thieves. Multiple layers... [ More ]

Comment #13

dumars798 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:02:53 GMT

Crime never get you anywhere in life

Comment #12

KY Floyd — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:11:40 GMT

did it say they were printing winning tickets or just tickets for the games?

There's definitely something going on besides what was reported in the story. If they won $70,000 with ony $86,000 worth of tickets they got back almost 82% of the ticket price. Either the investigation hasn't uncovered another $55,000 +/- worth of stolen tickets, or they won far more often than should be expected.

In Ky the lottery tickets show the time they were printed. Can't they just look at the times th... [ More ]

Comment #11

four4me — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:40:03 GMT

I've know it was possible all along. Back in the early 90's we had a computer at work it was a work station for our machine shop the guy who ran it was on vacation. He had all his files write protected. Special passwords were needed to get into and log on to his files. Of course when he was gone we needed access to it. One of the guy on my shift said he could get into it in about a minute. This was after several people had tried in vane to do it. In about a minute the guy on my shift had access... [ More ]

Comment #10

Todd — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:49:39 GMT

Aha! You've hit on the key point here. The ability for people to get into a system, when they are not supposed to be able to.

It's like in Jurassic Park, when Iam Malcolm says Life finds a way, to describe how the dinosaurs are able to breed, even though the genetic engineers made that impossible .

It is inevitable. Just like this system was broken into and like other computerized drawing systems had glitches Crime finds a way .

It also reminds me of the auto industry, whic... [ More ]

Comment #9

KyMystikal — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:28:20 GMT

I don't know if I feel any better living here in TN compared to living in DC. I don't know, maybe I read this too fast but did it say they were printing winning tickets or just tickets for the games? In Ky the lottery tickets show the time they were printed. Can't they just look at the times the tickets that were winners were printed at to find the bogus tickets since they were printed at times the retailers were closed

Comment #8

JimmySand9 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:53:46 GMT

It seems like the computer draws were the only thing not tampered with. That's a first.

Comment #7

justxploring — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:06:01 GMT

Corruption in Washington D.C.? Like this is something new

Comment #6

four4me — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:57:53 GMT

And i have said in many post that you could possibly gain access to the system from a remote location outside the buildings where the machines are kept.

What it boils down to is if there's a will theres a way for thieves to steal just about anything.

And for all it's worth if this doesn't send a message to states that use RNG software to bring back ball drawings. I don't know what will.

Comment #5

konane — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:35:31 GMT

Sure doesn't add credibility to TN's Lottery glitch.

Comment #4

jarasan — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:01:57 GMT

I told ya.

https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/168434

Still going on.

Comment #3

JAP69 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:01:16 GMT

Inside job huh.

And whoooooooo do you think programs rng drawings for the state draws.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Comment #2

justxploring — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:29:59 GMT

In about 5,600 transactions over a seven-month period, the perpetrators made it appear as if purchases had been made at one of more than three dozen lottery terminals at authorized locations.

All told, the perpetrators created $86,000 in phantom DC Lucky Numbers, DC-4, D.C. Keno and Powerball tickets, with more than $70,000 in prize money.

Of course this is very wrong, but I'm surprised the numbers are so low. Maybe they haven't caught all of the perpetrators.

Comment #1

spy153 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:20:22 GMT

LOL! I knew that was going to happen sooner or later

Contractors steal $70,000 in lottery prize money

Lottery Post — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:53:47 GMT

Computer system breached; technicians printed bogus tickets, investigators allege

D.C. officials were told last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board.

An investigation conducted by Battelle Memorial I... [ More ]