Pennsylvania man arrested after using scissors and glue to make winning lottery tickets

Comment #20

Stat$talker — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 18:32:54 GMT

That's what happens when you play THAT Lottery game MONOpoly ... !!

Mono means 1, or single ... as his outcome proves that the only prize you'll win is 3 hots and a cot from a Free Go to Jail card, that HE made..!!.. cause he's the ONLY one playing that game in the Whole County..

Comment #19

KY Floyd — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:52:44 GMT

Or he intentionally messed up the bar code

I also don't play scratchers, but surely they also have numbers on them for identifying the specific ticket. The NY online game tickets I'm looking at have 3 sets of numbers on them in addition to the bar code. One set is a 5 digit code that identifies the retailer, and the others are 18 digits and 6 digits. There's also a set of printed numbers on the back that tell what roll of printer paper the ticket came from, and where on the roll it was print... [ More ]

Comment #18

Unlucky-Kenny — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:21:40 GMT

Thank you.

Yes still puffin', still losin' -

I am not a scratch card guy either - no one ever wins big on cards where I live - I don't think winners get sent here so I don't buy them haha

Comment #17

noise-gate — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:14:03 GMT

Long time no see Kenny, still puffing away huh? Never was a scratcher man, so l wouldn't know, but it's been done folks have been arrested.

Stay alive Ol Chap.

Comment #16

Unlucky-Kenny — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:08:45 GMT

I've never understood the micro scratching and how it works -

If I bought a scratch card could I tell by looking at it

Comment #15

noise-gate — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:59:34 GMT

Personally, l don't know which is worse: This act or store owners/ clerks micro scratching scratchers to see whether they winners or not, then selling these duds to unsuspected customers. Nonetheless, they both wrong.

Comment #14

wander73 — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:03:39 GMT

The judge would throw it out. Cameras in the store too. wouldn't make it that far. think about it. it's not worth it and the tax payers as well.

Comment #13

wander73 — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:00:55 GMT

Doesn't every lottery outlet in the US have cameras? Same as casinos, casinos things happen people try to have their ways.

Comment #12

wander73 — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:59:09 GMT

Too funny. It sounds similiar to the guys back in the 80s putting the water balls in the machine. Why would anyone do that

Comment #11

Bleudog101 — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:16:49 GMT

We may never know...but somehow thinking the clerk was in on this...

Comment #10

LottoNoobie — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:06:15 GMT

It seems like he probably glued on matching numbers to create the winning ticket. May be he was charming enough to get the clerk to just cash the ticket in without actually scanning it. Or he intentionally messed up the bar code so it couldn't be scanned and said Look, a winning number is 25 and I matched it for $500. That's just my theory.

Comment #9

PHIL85 — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:54:36 GMT

This article is incomplete. As others mentioned retailers scan a ticket which tells them whether it is a winner or not and what it is worth. The ticket has to be verified before payment can be made. So the big question is why did the store pay out anything in the first place when the tickets in question were not actually winners

Comment #8

ThatScaryChick — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:50:38 GMT

I don't know why but the title of the article made me laugh.

Comment #7

Bleudog101 — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:01:45 GMT

IDK about this. Something in my mind just not adding up. The tickets must not have been scanned since the barcode would indicate not a winning ticket.

Well he has three hots and a cot now @ taxpayer's expense of course.

Comment #6

dannyct — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:50:23 GMT

What an Einstein

Comment #5

kao1632 — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:35:01 GMT

The only way I can see it working is if the store operator didn't scan the ticket.

So, why might they not scan the ticket...

Wasn't there a scam where sellers would give cash to a winner and claim the prize themselves? (something about avoiding letting the government know you had a windfall for people who had outstanding debts etc...

Comment #4

chris632 — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:18:54 GMT

I don't either. The first thing they do is scan the ticket so how could they cash it?

Chris

Comment #3

Think — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 04:19:28 GMT

You can just see this one coming. Next he will sue the store for accepting and cashing invalid tickets...hmmm...lets see legal fees...pain...suffering...loss of reputation....I bet the way he sees it that should be good for a couple million...why oh why did they not tell him those tickets were not valid..he didn't force them to cash the tickets...wouldn't surprise me if he tried it

Comment #2

HaveABall — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:34:07 GMT

I don't understand how the Lottery Headquarter's computer didn't catch this two out of the three times. Now this store owner isn't going to get their hundreds of dollars back.

Comment #1

grwurston — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:02:19 GMT

Here ya go!! https://youtu.be/CosD7h2703o

Pennsylvania man arrested after using scissors and glue to make winning lottery tickets

Lottery Post — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 01:01:19 GMT

The cut-and-paste con was caught

By Kate Northrop

Police arrested and jailed a Pennsylvania man on Tuesday after he was caught altering scratch-off lottery tickets to look like winners using scissors and a glue stick.

Craig Marshall Stout, 45, of Jeannette tried cashing in his DIY lottery tickets at a 7-Eleven convenience store on Fosterville Road in Hempfield but failed to get away with it this time.

His cut-and-paste methods had initially worked. Stout brought in three other fake t... [ More ]