Three NY store clerks held in theft of $75,000 lottery ticket

Comment #36

Bumkillah — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:04:24 GMT

Shady ass clerks i know the liquor store that the machine is broken in purpose to rip ppl off.' it's been for the longest time . It's so they can scam you . I went there awhile back it was broken i know if i go right now it's still broken aka tampered with . Dam foreigners are snakes in the grass. Need to keep the grass cut low to expose them snakes

Comment #35

luckyshoes — Sun, 12 May 2013 12:57:00 GMT

Oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive.

Rule #1 Sign ticket with ink pen before handing it over to clerk.

Comment #34

miracleplay5 — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:28:17 GMT

hmmm reading your signature and seeing 1908..I will step out on a limb and say/ask are you an AKA

Comment #33

miracleplay5 — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:25:14 GMT

Okay so here are my 2 cents worth...I dont care who migrate to this country JUST LEARN THE FREAKING LANGUAGE.If you are going to migrate legally or illegally to this country learn to speak ENGLISH or stay where you are because moving to a country and you dont know the language can put one back into a synonomous place of captivity from whence they were escaping..someone said this has been going on for years referring to store clerks taking advantage of the ignorant. One has to be 18 or older to p... [ More ]

Comment #32

KY Floyd — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:36:29 GMT

You're right. The article says that Pedro Quezada is an immigrant.

Comment #31

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:32:04 GMT

Yep

Comment #30

sully16 — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:44:47 GMT

I agree, everyday I see people who for some reason are dependant on others for one reason or another, and the moral of the story is, when you give up your independance you will be easily conned.

Comment #29

sully16 — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:40:36 GMT

I thought the same thing.

Comment #28

savagegoose — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:11:51 GMT

gtting to be a store clerk will have to get an honest job.

Comment #27

Garfield — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:09:07 GMT

Immigration status is certainly a legitimate concern. Glad to see where the authorities prosecuted this criminal act; hoping they'll prosecute the widespread immigration fraud with the same zeal.

Comment #26

Nikkicute — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:57:29 GMT

the clerks ignored his request for a receipt.

Should have known something was up right there!!

If a clerk won't hand you over a receipt, call the cops!!

The same state that wouldn't allow Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC

to do their report on lottery crooks.

Comment #25

maringoman — Thu, 09 May 2013 23:30:54 GMT

Yessir! in a perfect world such victims would be charged with incitement lol

Comment #24

Ronnie316 — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:58:14 GMT

Comment #23

Ronnie316 — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:57:19 GMT

And you forgot to mention asking the clerk for a print-out of the winning numbers! This why I don't always believe a crackhead when he comes along and says... just give me $5 million, please

Comment #22

maringoman — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:47:20 GMT

Sometimes when I read stories such as these I get upset at the victims. What is so hard in signing your tickets if you gonna hand them over to the store clerk? or checking the results on the newspaper/website/lottery results hotline? If people just worked a little harder, conmen would be extinct, I think.

Comment #21

surimaribo24 — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:18:19 GMT

knew something was fishy about this place . stopped couple times at this gas station and you can just read it on the clerks face down there hey im a crook glad those fkers got caught .

Comment #20

helpmewin — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:47:37 GMT

i will put a peace of tape on her with a sign that says kick me

Comment #19

Ronnie316 — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:56:32 GMT

Perhaps the clerk put a piece of tape on the reader so it wont work and players will bring the tickets to her

Comment #18

Ronnie316 — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:53:48 GMT

Another misunderstood clerk.

Comment #17

rdgrnr — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:26:03 GMT

I simply said Told ya and walked out of the store.

Comment #16

helpmewin — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:54:43 GMT

Comment #15

helpmewin — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:54:04 GMT

I simply said Told ya and walked out of the store

all the time it don't work i just unplug it and plug it back in,

sometimes the cashier says i can check them for you back here and i'm like No Thanks

Comment #14

GiveFive — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:52:11 GMT

I've seen a broken scanner.

At least I was told it was broken, but it could have just as easily have been unplugged.

I scan everyone of my winners, even though I already know how much I won. I make it a point to let the clerk see me do it, and if they dont, I tell them I just scanned this ticket and I won XX.00 dollars.

If the scanner is broken , because I already know how much I won, I say to the clerk when I hand them the ticket; Here' a XX dollar winner. A snotty clerk once said to... [ More ]

Comment #13

kapla — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:55:15 GMT

Never seen a broken scanner?

This is getting outta control, but I guess when money is involved it is kinda expected. Shame on NY Lottery for not being more proactive on this subject.

Comment #12

noise-gate — Thu, 09 May 2013 07:35:13 GMT

You addressing me bud?- how in the hell do l know?

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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (WABC) -- A construction worker, who barely speaks English, thought he struck it big winning more than $700 with a winning lottery ticket.

But it turns out it wasn't $700 he won, it was actually more than $70,000.

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Comment #11

RedStang — Thu, 09 May 2013 05:17:54 GMT

Right. What ny lotto could do is add instructions in spanish on the ticket. Another problem we have is the scanners or machines are always broken.

Comment #10

rdgrnr — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:18:39 GMT

Typical ignorant American opinon...

Typical ignorant American opinion?

So American opinions are typically ignorant?

Where the hell are you from that makes you so qualified to judge us?

If you don't like our opinions, why don't you go back wherever the hell you came from too

Comment #9

rdgrnr — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:14:01 GMT

Tennessee Lottery Retailers are required to have the readout facing the customer but a lot of them don't. They put the machine on a back wall or a window so you would have to go outside and read the screen. Or they cover it up with stuff on the counter so you can't see it.

Cuz they know the Tennessee Lottery really doesn't care and doesn't enforce anything anyway.

It's a free-for-all.

Ripping off naive lottery players can be a very lucrative business.

Comment #8

redhot7 — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:03:37 GMT

I could think of a way that would minimize this from happening.

All lottery retailers are required to have a computer monitor facing the customers.

As soon as the ticket is scanned, the monitor will flash and will show the prize in big red fonts that nobody could miss it.

Comment #7

VenomV12 — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:02:53 GMT

How the hell do you know that they were not born here? Just because someone has a foreign name does not mean they were not born in America. Last time I checked foreigners give birth to children in this country every single day. Typical ignorant American opinon that all people with foreign names must be born elsewhere and are not American.

Comment #6

noise-gate — Thu, 09 May 2013 03:37:34 GMT

Darn Right Ridge.

These folk are cut from the same cloth as Andy Askhar- that convicted son of the convenient store owner who was nailed last week. Conviction followed by deportation.

Comment #5

CLETU$ — Thu, 09 May 2013 03:29:16 GMT

The moral of this story is ALWAYS SIGN YOUR TICKET BEFORE HANDING IT TO A CLERK TO CHECK IT FOR YOU!If your state has a self checking machine at stores,USE IT,after signing your ticket!ALWAYS SIGN YOUR TICKET!!!Trust no one when it comes to winning money.

Comment #4

rdgrnr — Thu, 09 May 2013 02:52:21 GMT

I would venture to say with confidence that this activity is epidemic and has been for years and years.

We're only seeing the very rare cases that get exposed by stupidity on the part of the thieves or just happenstance.

Maybe the publicity will get a lot more of these people who are constantly being ripped off by these lowlife clerks to open their eyes and not only realize what's going on but to educate themselves as how to prevent it.

The lotteries and law enforcement and the courts n... [ More ]

Comment #3

Jani Norman — Thu, 09 May 2013 02:42:27 GMT

You are so right, and it is so sad that it's so much greed and dishonesty in the world...As the saying goes Trust No One ......

Comment #2

VenomV12 — Thu, 09 May 2013 02:41:19 GMT

The lottery needs to make it so you can scan your own tickets without having to give it to the shady clerks. In my state you can scan your own regular lottery tickets, but instant tickets you cannot. Even the systems that have a screen in front of the customer that shows the dollar amount is dangerous because other people in the store can see and potentially rob winners.

And once again, always print your name on your tickets.

I can only imagine throughout history how many people have bee... [ More ]

Comment #1

rdgrnr — Thu, 09 May 2013 02:36:52 GMT

Here we go again.

Three NY store clerks held in theft of $75,000 lottery ticket

Lottery Post — Thu, 09 May 2013 02:33:45 GMT

He was a Guatemalan immigrant who spoke little English and had a fondness for scratch-off lottery tickets; they were two clerks at a Long Island gas station who saw an opportunity.

When the clerks scanned Marvin Choy Nij's Take 5 lottery ticket and gave him $774, congratulating him on his windfall, he never suspected the real worth of his lucky ticket: $74,892, which the clerks, Yalcin Nergiz, 41, and Yunis Ozturk, 33, promptly cashed in for themselves, the Suffolk County district attorney, T... [ More ]