What happens when Michigan lottery retailers try to game the system

Comment #9

noise-gate — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:47:26 GMT

Watched The Green Book on blu ray last night with the Mrs and thought about this line in the movie. It's possible that Mubarak, Abed, and company were following Tony's interpretation of living in America..

I like what you did back there, Doc. You stood up for yourself. It s like your friend the President says, Ask not your country what you could do for it, ask what you do for yourself. You know

Comment #8

TheMeatman2005 — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:26:43 GMT

There's a lot of crookedness going on in a lot of states. It's only a matter of time before they're caught.

Comment #7

Rman313 — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 02:57:17 GMT

There is a lot of crookedness going on in my state! WOW

Comment #6

GuesssWork — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 23:54:48 GMT

Many of the store owners who had their licenses suspended after offering to help winning players out for a price were caught in sting operations run by state officials, who used undercover investigators looking to sell tickets and bogus Daily 4 tickets that would appear to be winners if scanned at a lottery terminal, records show.

Really, what did the state officials do? lol .. Busted

Comment #5

Bleudog101 — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 21:02:58 GMT

Had only skimmed the surface and really had a good belly laugh reading the whole story, especially the crying part. You play you pay, simple as that.

Comment #4

Bleudog101 — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 21:02:07 GMT

Perhaps the 3D barcode took care of this problem. Not sure wish state it was but they'd scratch a tiny line across, scan the ticket and losers would go back in the mix. With 3D technology that way of cheating out the window! Thanks for clarifying it.

Comment #3

noise-gate — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:02:34 GMT

So Abed was crying! Funny how the thought of he s pregnant wife did not cross his mind when he shortchanged a customer. Many of these corrupt store owners have been dodging nuclear bullets for years when caught, they remorseful, or so they say. What did they expect, a Please don t do that again, this is your final warning.

This action is no different from restaurants in this neck of the woods being closed down because of rodent droppings, roach sightings on property while serving customers.

Comment #2

mathwhiz — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:48:18 GMT

I'm not sure about other states, but I don't think this is possible in Michigan (or ever was). To validate a ticket you need the ticket barcode (printed on the back in plain sight) that identifies the ticket and you need the validation code. The validation code is printed in plain numbers under the scratch surface and the validation code is also encoded with the ticket number in a 3D barcode under the scratch material. I don't see how a small pin scrape will reveal enough of either the plain num... [ More ]

Comment #1

Bleudog101 — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:48:44 GMT

Stupid crime that just isn't worth it. Too many safeguards in place these days.

Have a question about scratch tickets: I can remember not too long ago that some shady retailers would take a pin and scratch through the barcode, scan and keep the winners. John Q. Public doesn't notice the tiny scratch and buys losing tickets. Have the lotteries fixed this problem? In reality criminals would figure out a way to beat the system no matter what.

What happens when Michigan lottery retailers try to game the system

Lottery Post — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:19:40 GMT

Includes video report

A Detroit gas station and convenience store owner scratched hundreds of instant game tickets the Michigan Lottery sent him for sale to customers, trying to identify the winners so he could buy them himself and claim the prizes, officials say.

For each package of tickets, Mubarak Morshed calculated whether the total prize money exceeded the purchase price. If not, he reported the pack of tickets missing. If yes, he purchased the tickets and sought to collect the cash,