What's to prevent Scientific Games or Lottery employees buying winners?

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duckman — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:38:49 GMT

What's to prevent Scientific Games or Lottery employees buying winners?

Answer: up to 50 years in prison

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Pinkpansies — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:42:20 GMT

If it is a small prize, there really isn't any security. With a larger prize they would look for unusual patterns (such as someone buying all the tickets going to one particular store). Also, people talk, and that's what usually catches someone who commits the perfect crime .

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pumpi76 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:37:02 GMT

Interesting...my fault for been against what you are saying, but i rather they know it than nobody know it...I wish it was someone else beside them knew it...

YOu are probably saying: let it be random...It is suffice to say that the scratchoffs is like 20 times harder than Powerball...With dilligence who knows you might get lucky on Powerball but SCRATCHOFFS forget it...That's why i rather someone know than nobody know...would had like for the people that know to be people beside the people t... [ More ]

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caipiao — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:21:31 GMT

Hope security is tighter. So Scientific Games manufactures the scratchers for all states or most of them? Their employees actually can go to the database at SG and say Ticket #650-041174-031 is a $2,000,000 winner?

And I read many on here say the state lotteries know which batch of tickets is sent to each city or county and they control how the bigger winners are spread out around the state.

IF NOT. then a scratcher produces a 1,000 books (each book with 100 tickets), and the game has 2... [ More ]

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RJOh — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:23:19 GMT

I remember reading about that here at LP news.

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/127545/530713

Weren't there some security changes because of that incident

What's to prevent Scientific Games or Lottery employees buying winners?

caipiao — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:02:33 GMT

What's to prevent Scientific Games or Lottery employees buying winners? It's as simple as 1-2-3

I read in the Indiana Foreman Lottery Scam that the Indiana Lotto security guard Mr. Foreman scammed the Lottery out of Millions.

1. Foreman contacted Scientifc Games for a list of winning ticket serial #s for verification purposes.

2. He's employee so couldn't play, but knew which book contained the 2,000,000 dollar winners. That book was shipped to southeastern Indiana store.

3. Forema... [ More ]