China's beloved national lottery suspected of massive fraud

Comment #21

Scratch$ — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:02:18 GMT

The 50 billion yuan figure in the article is obviously an error. I googled the scandal and found multiple sources that said the jackpot was $80 million U.S., which would be about 500 million yuan. So there's no doubt in my mind that 500 million yuan is the correct figure.

Comment #20

TheOtherOne — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:41:44 GMT

You know it's weird I recall a very very similar situation while driving from tn to sc once. The signs in ga showed a diff. Amount, and that amount was the new jp amount the next day when it rolled. I don't remember the exact total but it was similar to the ones you listed.

Comment #19

DDOH937 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:46:37 GMT

Not only is this likely to happen in the US, i suspect it already has...not to the degree where some obvious shananigans were publicised to raise serious alarm but i'm pretty sure things go on here as well.

Case in point...

I will never for get this day..

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Comment #18

johnnyj1 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:43:02 GMT

Lets see..... A former Communist China... robbing its citizens of their fair share.......really.... no surprise....

Comment #17

JoeBigLotto — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:00:45 GMT

I don't think china commited any crime but rather things are actually normal. We all need to understand the chiness government controls everything there including lottery balls that go in reverse to ensure china progress by all means neccessery so you are probably better off being a happy monk in china than trying to win the lottery at least you be rich in spirit and very happy while you dream about your lottery price and california beach girls lol.

Comment #16

butch2030 — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:22:14 GMT

1 United States Dollar equals

6.246 Chinese Yuan

50,000,000,000/6.246 = 8,005,123,278.89

I'll buy the 8 billion some 5 M in pocket change.

Comment #15

Dead_Aim — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:51:15 GMT

I consider any drawing in the states a fraud if they use computers to draw their numbers. If a ball drawings goes awry then it is one drawing. If a computer drawing goes awry then it is months and months before it is found out (99% by the players, mind you, not the commission that over sees this stuff) and then there is no way to get your money back unless you kept all the losers for months of playing when this happens. Players in CA, TN, AZ have all been burned first hand. You want fraud, look

Comment #14

lothob — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 03:40:22 GMT

Now that would never ever happen here, in these here United States, right

Comment #13

Drenick1 — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:57:26 GMT

$8 billion US dollars...Wow!!

No wonder the Chinese government didn't want to pay it out.

Comment #12

HaveABall — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:36:09 GMT

Why would an individual (in any country) expect a governmental agency to check/audit a peer governmental agency and receive a true/fair outcome

Comment #11

Coin Toss — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:08:15 GMT

No surprise, it's the same government that kept their Olympic workers in diapers to put on the show, remember? come to think of it, would you really want to win money from that group and expect to get paid?

Gleno mentioned being surprised to find out China has a lottery, kind of is confusing for a communist country. Castro's first move when he knew he ran Batista out was to shoot up the casinos.

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Comment #10

TnTicketlosers — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:10:26 GMT

Need I say more about Tennessee,stop playing..simple solution.

Comment #9

mypiemaster — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:40:18 GMT

FRAUD in China? Noooooooooooo

Comment #8

reddbrim — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:48:57 GMT

It could happen here right in the good ole USA ,(might be going on as we speak)just fired the wrong person that work inside the lottery or the people that make the machines that the ball comes out of .I sad its going on in China but I am not surprise I hope its not going on here .(USA

Comment #7

abjorik — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:52:22 GMT

[quote]for a 50-billion-yuan ($80 million) prize was suddenly canceled.[\quote]

50billion yuans are 8 billion US dollars. Are they stupid to make such a wrong calculations

Comment #6

m3347 — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:59:16 GMT

Reminds me of the story in the press several years ago when it was revealed that the lottery in France had been rigged. It was a shock, you'd think that in a country like France it couldn't happen.

Comment #5

noise-gate — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:54:19 GMT

What exactly does Mr Zhang mean by someone outside their scheme won the jackpot? . Is he suggesting that the winner/winners should be known prior to the drawing?

By the way: China has Mobile execution vehicles known to rock up to your present location and carry out their business. China does not screw around when they WANT to eliminate corruption..

Comment #4

Drenick1 — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:43:53 GMT

Simple solution. Quit playing.

Comment #3

Get paid — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:41:19 GMT

With these type of shenanigans going on I would,n play.

Comment #2

hearsetrax — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:17:33 GMT

Weirdsvile, China

Comment #1

Gleno — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:37:06 GMT

Surprised to read that China has a national lottery but not surprised of the allegations of massive fraud.

Do they still have those empty cities that they built after pushing the poor folks out and these folks cannot afford to live in these boondoggle cities.

They are not the smartest in dealing with capitalists ideas because of their collective mentality of their modern history.

China's beloved national lottery suspected of massive fraud

Lottery Post — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:02:59 GMT

China loves its national lottery, but now some very suspicious goings-on with the game has ignited a scandal that's capturing the country's attention.

As in most other places, the drawing for China's lottery the only form of gambling the government allows outside of Macau is televised nationally, conducted by the China Welfare Lottery Issuing and Management Center, an agency of the government.

But something appears to have gone wrong Sunday night, when the drawing for a 50-billion-yuan ($8... [ More ]