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Georgia gas station employee accused of stealing over $127,000 of lottery tickets in scanning scamReply
My all time favorite time of paying out scratch tickets was about 25 years ago in WA before they had phone apps or self check thing in the business. A lady bought a $2.00 bingo scratch ticket. Scratched it in the store goes I made my money back at least. Hands me the ticket and goes I wanna cash this in before my husband walks in a yells at me for buying tickets again. Scan the ticket on the lottery machine turned around and go I can't pay this out. With a completely straight face. She looked at
Mar 3, 2023, 12:31 am - aracelia2004 - Lottery News

Woman denied $43 million jackpot, offered steak dinner insteadReply
I FIND IT VERY STRANGE THE CASINO DIDN'T NOTICE THE LARGE PAY OUT AMOUNT ON THE MACHINE UNTIL SHE WON? WHY IS THAT! She never won a jackpot; her actual winnings were $2.25, but the screen showed it was printing a cash ticket, below that $43 million and please remove ticket . The article doesn't say if the machine printed a ticket worth $43 million, but because she came back the next day to find out the exact size of her jackpot,. it doesn't look like she removed the ticket. If you checke
Nov 7, 2016, 11:55 am - Stack47 - Lottery News

Woman denied $43 million jackpot, offered steak dinner insteadReply
There never was a $43 million jackpot on that machine so the amount on the printing ticket message was an obvious malfunction. Below that is says remove ticket and seriously doubt the machine printed out a ticket valued at $43 million. But when she came back the next day to find out the exact size of her jackpot, a casino employee crushed her excitement. The screen showed the payout amount and said remove ticket so why did she come back the next day to find out the exact size of her winn
Nov 4, 2016, 2:19 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

NY lottery winner contemplates moving to ParisReply
i would agree with your theory here if the son had purchased a powerball or megamillions ticket on a day when people would be lined up to buy them. but, a scratch ticket was probably sitting there unbought for a longer period of time just waiting for someone to step up and purchase it. suprised the masses on here haven't jumped on you yet for suggesting the son deceive the father. even despicable as i am wouldn't resort to that. after all it was the fathers money that purchased it. selecting a w
Jan 16, 2014, 9:26 pm - faber98 - Lottery News

NY deli owners stole $1M lottery ticket, cops sayReply
I have a similar story, a few months ago I bought a five or six scratch tickets right around the corner from where I live. (I won $132 all together on four of the tickets). I went back in to the store to get them cashed. The woman scanned the tickets, then told me: You won $112.00 I said: No I didn't, I won $132.00 Then I rattled-off to her what each ticket was worth. Then she gave me some stupid lie about she forgot to scratch off the code on one. This was right after she scanned th
Nov 27, 2013, 2:48 am - JoeCanWin - Lottery News

Judge orders new trial in Arkansas lottery ticket suitReply
Duncan said she discarded the ticket after an electronic scanner told her it was not a winner. The state's Lottery Commission has defended the machine and says its equipment functions properly. If the machine was working properly, Duncan didn't have the winning ticket and maybe why the judge ordered a new trial. Unless Duncan bought the only ticket sold in that store, she can't prove the ticket Jones found was hers. Duncan should have know if the ticket was a winner by looking at the ticket
May 25, 2012, 10:43 am - Stack47 - Lottery News

Arkansas woman loses bid for $1M lottery ticket picked from trashReply
Not saying anything is just as bad if not worse. Usually the cover-up is worse than the actually crime or mistake that was made from the onset. And we still do not know how this all came about. They never said if the woman said it or if it was just public information that made people aware of the circumstances in this case. But either way, if in fact their was an attempt to validate the ticket and the machine gave false information out, it is not the ticket holders responsibility that the machin
May 3, 2012, 4:45 pm - rgse90 - Lottery News

New report criticizes Iowa Lottery securityReply
The only problem that I ever had with the Iowa Lottery was with one of their retailers.I bought a $3 scratch off ticket from one of those machines and the machine took my money.Nobody at the retailer had the key to the machine so they couldn't open it up and retrieve my ticket for me and they refused to refund my money.When I got home I sent an email to the Iowa Lottery and complained about the retailers attitude.The Iowa Lottery sent me $3 worth of Lotto Bucks that could be redeemed at any Iowa
Apr 23, 2009, 1:03 am - MaddMike51 - Lottery News

Lottery retailers busted in raidReply
I know when they run promo games at certain times I have heard the lotto machines play music to let you know you won a bonus ticket. Why don't every state adopt this as a normal routine to winning tickets of all sizes. That way, even if the owner of the ticket can not see the screen they can still hear the music or a computer voice saying You're a winner . It should not be that hard to make the whole machine shut down if the music or voice mechanism is tampered with or shut off. I would think th
Jan 22, 2009, 7:37 pm - Dead_Aim - Lottery News

Lottery ticket has all the numbers, but 7 seconds lateReply
I punched twice, before 9 p.m., Mr. Iranpur recalled yesterday in an interview. The first ticket came out. I said, 'It's still 8:59, it's still 8:59!' The second ticket, however, didn't come out until seven seconds after 9 p.m., making it eligible for the next draw. It appears to me the terminal machine should be programmed for the ticket time to be when the data or playslip is entered. Not when the ticket is printed. Enter data at 8:59 and 55 seconds the machine should print ticket t
Oct 9, 2008, 1:41 am - JAP69 - Lottery News