Massachusetts has a new rule to stop repeat winners — but so far, they keep winning

Comment #19

LadeeLuck — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 19:12:16 GMT

Remeber the McDonald s monopoly scam? I think something similar is going on here. They obviously are linked to someone on the inside in some way. How else can you possibly win consistently on a DAILY basis

Comment #18

Tucker Black — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:20:51 GMT

How ridiculous. Put up a sign near the lottery tickets that says:

good luck, hope you win, but it is now illegal to win too much, as that's not allowed

Yours truly,

Greedy State Lottery, where the state is ALWAYS the ultimate winner

...thanks for your contribution to the state treasury

Comment #17

noise-gate — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 04:29:38 GMT

l took another gander at the wording of those letters to the Jaffars, and the word may comes up a lot. Perhaps this family are gearing up to fight any attempts to make them roll over. After all the conduct from these guys is we have legitimate winning tickets we making a claim. I am waiting to see who blinks first.

Comment #16

tg2017 — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:59:27 GMT

Clearly with the new law come expanded enforcement powers, and the aim is take their time to put the Jaafars out of the lottery ticket claiming business for good. Maybe the Jaafars should take the advice of Butch Cassidy... He's got to wait for us to pull another job. Well, what if there isn't another job? He can't arrest us, and he can't take us out of here. We'll drive him crazy. We'll outlast the snip . We'll go straight. Well, Butch didn't go straight and we know what happened to him.... [ More ]

Comment #15

Coin Toss — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:19:41 GMT

Bleudodg101,

Side story.

In dealer's school in Vegas we had these two cousins from Boston who had grown up around casinos (in Boston, ahem). they told us about this game their uncle ran, Bah Boo, where one player rolled the dice on one side of the table and a player on the receiving side of the table rolled them back (over simplified explanation).

So years later a casino in Vegas put the game in as a test. One of the old timers heard people who knew these two cousins talking about Bah... [ More ]

Comment #14

Bleudog101 — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:21:06 GMT

Your last sentence hit the nail on the head as far as paying pool players. Here in KY, IN and I believe OH where I play they will cut separate checks. Like you said the way it should be. There's room for improvement in my home state IMO. One cut separate checks and two get on-line gaming.

BTW Framingham is where I was born and grew up in Holliston.

Best of luck to you.

Comment #13

lucky6025 — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:58:16 GMT

He doesn't have to buy tickets,all he has to do is have anyone buy them and he pays for them...Gift...everyone buys tickets as gifts birthday/christmas any occassion, doesn't say you have to buy them just have to know where it was bought and maybe the buyer, so pretty hard to prove this is not what is going on.Yes i do believe he is buying winning tickets people don't want to turn in themselves for what ever reason,but with A good lawyer I think he could beat the Lottery.The Lottery pretty much... [ More ]

Comment #12

KY Floyd — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 05:46:01 GMT

no way could Ali have bought all those tickets by himself.

Maybe that's what will bring him down. If he files claims for just two tickets that he claims he bought himself but the time and location of the sales makes that impossible they can nail him for perjury at the least. It's not conclusive, but winning that much and not claiming to be a professional gambler suggest that he's not buying the tickets himself. Or perhaps that he has a bad accountant. If he does try to take advantage of the... [ More ]

Comment #11

Stack47 — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:06:42 GMT

and they probably buy winning tickets at a discount too.

Maybe they just check what winners are left in a particular game and buy in bulk.

A player in Texas did that by buying rolls of tickets in games that had lots of unsold large denomination winning tickets. The idea was the store would get more rolls of tickets giving them a better chance of getting a jackpot winner. The cost of play is more than than the average player is willing to spend and possibly what Jaafar is doing.

Comment #10

noise-gate — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:15:25 GMT

The last time l checked, the genie of the lamp spent most of his time in Arabia.Jaffar is probably from that part of the world, or his ancestors are. All l am saying is: The lamp, was never found.

Comment #9

Stack47 — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:11:57 GMT

According to the 2016 indictment, prosecutors say the alleged criminal enterprise in New Jersey set up fake entrepreneurial businesses expressly created to receive fraudulent wire transfers of money from unsuspecting victims. Those businesses, prosecutors say, were set up to launder money, often sending it overseas to China and other places.

The Jaafar brothers both pleaded guilty to a second-degree conspiracy to commit theft by deception charge.

I guess that's suppose to mean if you're re... [ More ]

Comment #8

Bleudog101 — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:59:11 GMT

Though Massachusetts isn't a big state per se, I know from growing up there that no way could Ali have bought all those tickets by himself. I'm referring to a previous article about him getting tickets all over the place including Nantucket in one day I believe. No way, been there and quite a ride out in the ocean to get there and back. Now if it had been Martha's Vineyard that is significantly closer to land.

Whatever he and family have going on I say go for it while you can.... [ More ]

Comment #7

Coin Toss — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:00:26 GMT

Something definitely not right with this.

One time in Vegas a Keno writer and her boyfriend had a plan to hit a Keno game for the max, $50,000 at the time.

Here's how they got caught, not only did the try to past post the numbers drawn but they7 had the first 15 numbers drawn...up until the time no one had ever hit 15 numbers, not sure if anybody ever has as of yet.

The Keno manager was called to verify the ticket and had security with him.

Re: the Mass. lottery, doesn't Mass. hav... [ More ]

Comment #6

Need200K — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:20:17 GMT

This has to be buying others winning tickets...Can't win again and again and that too from all over states..They seems to me like a Lottery winning ticket buyers

Comment #5

noise-gate — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:11:06 GMT

Why do l have this vision of Ali his Sons driving throughout the State, in vans, all tricked out with ATM machines. With signs on the side stating We pay cash for winning lottery scratch off tickets.

..absolutely no questions asked

Comment #4

oate — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:10:28 GMT

This could all have been avoided if Mass Lottery had rewatched Aladdin and remembered that Jafar was the bad guy.

Comment #3

s5thomps — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:59:34 GMT

The Jaafar's are on to something. No one should win that much. Might be an inside job are they figured out a way to game the system. The article doesn't mention if it was Scratchers or Lotto tickets or a combination of both. States normally list the amount of winners left in a particular game. Maybe they just check what winners are left in a particular game and buy in bulk.

Comment #2

bigbuckswede — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:56:59 GMT

I say this every time. Go online and register all players like us in Sweden. Then this type of fake winners will go away. From 1st of jan 2019 similar rules are also applied to horse racing in Sweden. You need to play with your drivers licence when you play at a store.

Comment #1

music* — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:53:22 GMT

They are both scheduled to be sentenced on May 3, 2019.

Both passports have probably been surrendered. No chance to flee.

Looks like these lottery crimes are being taken seriously by the Massachusset's Lottery.

Massachusetts has a new rule to stop repeat winners — but so far, they keep winning

Lottery Post — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:59:06 GMT

He's done it again, and not just for the second, third or even 10th time. For the 1,246th time this year, Ali Jaafar has hit it big on the lottery.

State records show that since Jan. 1 the Watertown, Massachusetts, man has won more than $1.8 million from lottery retailers all around Massachusetts with most of his riches coming from scratch tickets revealing $1,000 prizes. Jaafar is on track to be the winningest lotto player in Massachusetts for a third consecutive year, and nothing yet seems... [ More ]