Lottery scam investigation comes to Tennessee

Comment #39

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Fri, 27 May 2016 17:31:00 GMT

More simply stated, if the lines you are playing in a game similar to a 5-39 have fewer than 5 or greater than

6 individual digits you have no chance of winning a JP 7.5 of every 10 plays on average. This is not a wild rant,

it's statistics 101.

RL

Comment #38

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Fri, 27 May 2016 17:15:59 GMT

Just my 2 cents but I think too much emphasis is placed on the RNG's used to draw the numbers when it's

only half of the process. Quick picks are RNG generated but we never really hear anything about that. I

ran a few test and something is out of place. The RNG in a lottery sales terminal can be changed daily by

a simple firmware update. How can anyone profit from this, glad you asked. Numbered lottery games are

closed systems as they pick numbers from a finite pool. As such the outp... [ More ]

Comment #37

TnTicketlosers — Tue, 24 May 2016 14:10:14 GMT

You are right gra8 about everything,,scam,scam,scam...we are being scammed the legal way,,,,just stop playing...IT DOES NO GOOD..I think they even post fake payouts.Seeing her go down will be my Lottery hit.

Comment #36

TnTicketlosers — Tue, 24 May 2016 14:05:43 GMT

I wish I could get us all together I would show you how to win Georgia.

Comment #35

TnTicketlosers — Tue, 24 May 2016 14:04:04 GMT

I wish we could do something about what they are doing to us in TENNESSEE,but we just have to wait,till either she gets caught or go else where.I play Georgia alot,going into Chattanooga,,,the loop there is so exciting...I play at the Pilot station....give it a try sometimes.Grab a subway sit in the booths and scratch away...very much fun.I love the drive and get away.

Comment #34

gra8*2win — Tue, 24 May 2016 13:53:32 GMT

Tennessee lottery i think is horrible........i can find patterns with the rng......and you can almost predict a pair.......that will come......but with that in mind

they know what you are playing and they know what they are going to pay out........the only conclusion is it is rigged........yesterday in the cash 4

the payout for the draws never exceed 10 grand.......they should have to show how many winners there were for each winning number........and if you see

that only 6 people won..... [ More ]

Comment #33

ekem6078 — Wed, 18 May 2016 01:58:30 GMT

100

Comment #32

ekem6078 — Wed, 18 May 2016 01:57:06 GMT

destinycreation but it's a shame tho. That's how they got us buddy.

Comment #31

destinycreation — Tue, 17 May 2016 01:23:43 GMT

If you want to play the lottery and your state only offers RNG games, then you don't have a choice, you have to play what they offer.

Comment #30

ekem6078 — Tue, 17 May 2016 00:36:34 GMT

If it was random, let the balls deciede the winning number. Hmmm.

Comment #29

ekem6078 — Tue, 17 May 2016 00:33:39 GMT

If everyone would stop playing the RNG games, and only the ball games, this would stop this. The RNG games is just one way the lottery knows who's playing what and how many people is on a certain number. Just think about, if ex:5000000 people were playing ex: 123 in the pick3, with a 1.00 exact order in their state( and they all ran their tickets thur the machine, do you think by using the RNG machines, the lottery officials are going to drop that number? H NO.!! IF they did the lottery will soo... [ More ]

Comment #28

patricks6 — Sun, 15 May 2016 14:08:40 GMT

bring back the balls n quit controlling ur low payouts

Comment #27

TnTicketlosers — Fri, 13 May 2016 19:57:48 GMT

Flamboyant you mean.

Comment #26

haymaker — Fri, 13 May 2016 00:45:57 GMT

Had to go back and watch again, yep, the arrogance of ignorance

Comment #25

TheMeatman2005 — Thu, 12 May 2016 18:44:08 GMT

Had Tipton not bought the tickets (and ordered food) himself, they might not have caught him and he could still be rigging the numbers.

He got caught because he got GREEDY

Comment #24

Stack47 — Thu, 12 May 2016 02:24:09 GMT

Iowa Assistant Attorney General Rob Sand alleges that Tipton installed software known as a root kit that enabled him to manipulate numbers in computers that were supposed to randomly generate number combinations for several lottery games. The program would then self-destruct leaving no trace. Tipton denies that allegation.

They prove to the jury it was Tipton that bought the Iowa ticket, but proving a self-destructing program existed might be very difficult. If the AG could replicate the self... [ More ]

Comment #23

Stack47 — Thu, 12 May 2016 01:33:10 GMT

Comment #22

sully16 — Thu, 12 May 2016 00:19:10 GMT

Tipton has never been involved with Tennessee lottery scandals....

Comment #21

TnTicketlosers — Thu, 12 May 2016 00:04:09 GMT

Anyone that is Flamboyant is a dragon .......she is the queen ,if this answers your question,she was fired for being so flamboyant,,,,,take notice to me Im the queen of the lottery....blah blah blah....she is more of a scammer than Tipton..we all know it,you cant win nothing here...

Comment #20

Todd — Wed, 11 May 2016 22:08:07 GMT

Nothing fishy, the roommate's mug shot was already posted previously: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/302838

Check the scrolling section at the bottom of this news story for all the previous articles about the scandal.

Comment #19

Kingdarius615 — Wed, 11 May 2016 22:03:09 GMT

She was with Georgia lottery ,, they let go and tn gave her a big signing bonus,,,,, look @ tn payouts ,,,, somethings don't add up

Comment #18

lejardin — Wed, 11 May 2016 21:50:08 GMT

ONG, Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha not exactly the answer I was expecting, about fell off my chair.

You sir, have a wicked sense of humor, I am still dyin here.......

Comment #17

LiveInGreenBay — Wed, 11 May 2016 20:33:51 GMT

Because she looks like Hillary Clinton

Comment #16

lejardin — Wed, 11 May 2016 20:11:12 GMT

I am going to ask a dumb question.

I remember RDGRNR used to call the woman in charge of TN lottery the Dragon Lady, can someone tell me why she is called that

Comment #15

KY Floyd — Wed, 11 May 2016 18:51:34 GMT

People need to vote with their dollars and their voices.:

Your voice doesn't mean a thing if you don't back it up with your wallet, and the lotteries have an enormous amount of evidence that people don't do that. How many people said they were going to cut back or even completely stop buying PB tickets when MUSL increased the odds a few months before selling over a billion dollars worth of tickets for a single drawing? The lottery waves a bunch of money in the air and people buy tickets to tr... [ More ]

Comment #14

Technics — Wed, 11 May 2016 17:37:51 GMT

I just wish people were sharp enough to fall back from playing in cases where these scams come out. You can get the results you want simply by NOT funding it by playing. Don't play and they will make changes. People's greed and addictions to the hope of winning have a grip on their logical thinking.

Comment #13

rca1952 — Wed, 11 May 2016 17:11:58 GMT

All said and done, but why isn't the third person's face, The Collage Room Mate, posted for all to see!!! Sounds fishy to me...

Comment #12

bobby623 — Wed, 11 May 2016 17:07:11 GMT

IMHO, I doubt that any lottery official who went to great lengths to convince the politicians that they would have more money to spend if they dumped the ball machines is going to admit to being wrong.

Lottery directors are seen as financial wizards who don't make mistakes.

Switching back to ball machines would require funds that the political class is not about to give up without a fight.

A recommendation that players stop buying tickets is ludicrous. There is no way on earth or Hell t... [ More ]

Comment #11

RJOh — Wed, 11 May 2016 17:07:06 GMT

Sounds like anyone who wins a jackpot of a MUSL game is a suspect because they have accomplished the impossible.

Comment #10

Stack47 — Wed, 11 May 2016 16:58:37 GMT

Hargrove said the timing is critical the state didn't start offering Hot Lotto until 2013 after Tipton had been caught buying that ticket in Iowa and his scheme began to unravel.

Then why is MUSL wasting time investigating Tennessee Hot Lotto winners?

Tipton's brother actually won jackpots in Oklahoma and Colorado.

But can they prove Eddie Tipton rigged those drawings

Comment #9

Ron5995 — Wed, 11 May 2016 16:05:12 GMT

It's mystifying, especially given the national news coverage the Hot Lotto RNG hacking scandal has received. And yet Hot Lotto is still associated with MUSL, still uses computer RNG, and many are still buying! Crazy.

Personally, I'd never buy any MUSL associated RNG game, such as 2x2, Hot Lotto, etc. Heck, I'm leery of even buying a Powerball or Mega Millions ticket these days, despite being ball drawn, unless the jackpot is record breaking high.

Unless numbers sales drop sharply, it's lik... [ More ]

Comment #8

noise-gate — Wed, 11 May 2016 15:11:04 GMT

My thought exactly Todd.

Comment #7

Todd — Wed, 11 May 2016 15:04:39 GMT

Yeah, as if that is the only computerized drawing system on Earth that could have been hacked.

Comment #6

noise-gate — Wed, 11 May 2016 15:03:21 GMT

You got to love Priscilla's answer: We did not get our rng from that guy.

Comment #5

music* — Wed, 11 May 2016 14:55:29 GMT

with Todd. People need to vote with their dollars and their voices. Stop playing RNG games and let your legislature know why.

Comment #4

Todd — Wed, 11 May 2016 14:39:33 GMT

I'm with you: I wish this was the beginning of the end for RNG. Unfortunately it doesn't appear that the states are getting it.

Did you watch the video and notice Ms. Hargrove laughingly dismiss the possibility that the Tennessee Lottery's RNG was affected? Rather than taking a serious tone and assuring people that the lottery is carefully investigating everything, she nearly does an eyeroll as she blows off the reporter's question.

For the life of me I can't understand the lotteries' nee... [ More ]

Comment #3

haymaker — Wed, 11 May 2016 13:47:41 GMT

So it seems we are just scratching the surface, hopefully this is the beginning of the end for RNG

Comment #2

destinycreation — Wed, 11 May 2016 13:13:38 GMT

The GOOD THING about this Nationwide RNG Investigation, is that it EXPOSES the Obvious Security Vulnerabilities and FRAUD that can happen in the game of Lottery using RNG drawings rather than Mechanical Ball Drawings.

FRAUD is EASIER for Hackers with Computer Generated RNG lottery games.

Comment #1

mypiemaster — Wed, 11 May 2016 12:12:25 GMT

Boy, this stuff is turning into a virus and the Dragon Lady thinks she is immune.

Lottery scam investigation comes to Tennessee

Lottery Post — Wed, 11 May 2016 11:56:08 GMT

Includes video report

The Tennessee Education Lottery is cooperating with investigators as they look into one of the most elaborate lottery scams in U.S. history.

The scam was the work of Eddie Tipton, a former security director with the Multi-State Lottery Association.

Tipton has been convicted of fraud and sentenced to ten years in prison.

But his brother and his old college roommate were recently arrested as the jackpot fixing investigation expanded.

Prosecutors in Iowa say sur... [ More ]