Comment #1

Thomas Covenant — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:32:50 GMT

I have seen those scratch off phone cards before. There are a few stores in my area that sells them. Most of the time the store redeems them for a cash prize. It's perfectly legal to sell them, because it really is a phone card. But it's illegal to pay cash prizes on a winner. Get this, the cards cost $1, and has 1 min of phone time. So you know it was made just to play an illegal lottery.

Counterfeit lottery tickets in Tennessee

Lottery Post — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:35:30 GMT

The Tennessee Attorney Generals Office is working with the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) to determine how to deal with illegal tickets being circulated throughout Tennessee.TELC CEO Rebecca Paul said she first heard about the problem from victims of the scam who wanted the TELC to refund their money.They look like a lottery ticket, they scratch like a lottery ticket, but they are a phone card, Paul said, adding some victims reported that when they asked a retailer for lottery ti... [ More ]