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Lottery Cheats Ruin Players' ChancesNews Story
When it comes to the lottery, there are lots of games, and we all know they're games of chance. When we play, we expect a fair chance. But that's not always the case. Eyewitness News learned your odds of winning were hurt at times - sometimes by thieves stealing entire cases of lottery tickets and other times by the very people selling you the tickets.Drew Lowe was a clerk at a Brownsburg Shell Station until he was caught doing something the lottery calls fishing - when an employee literally
May 23, 2005, 9:24 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Theft of lottery tickets wins Michigan man trip to jailNews Story
A Michigan man arrested in late May for the burglary of the Lake Nepessing Road Party Store and theft of lottery tickets has won a trip to prison.Gerald Werth, 41, of Flint was sentenced to 18 months to 10 years in prison Monday by Lapeer Circuit Judge Nick O. Holowka.Werth was on parole for previous burglary convictions when he broke through the back wall of the store, 434 Lake Nepessing Road, and left with liquor, cigarettes and lottery tickets.He was arrested after detectives tracked him thro
May 18, 2005, 9:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

Tennesse lottery markets tickets as Christmas giftsNews Story
Buying lottery tickets as Christmas gifts hasn't caught on at east Nashville's Community Market, one of the city's most popular convenience stores for players to buy games.The idea never dawned on Seneca Bradley, 28, who plays there occasionally.But a $1 or $5 lottery game just may be the perfect alternative to a Christmas card, which would cost about the same, he said.Holiday-themed TV and radio commercials encourage people to buy lottery items everything from scratch-off games to Powerball tic
Dec 21, 2004, 9:56 am - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball lottery tickets go on sale in MaineNews Story
Eric Moody used to go to New Hampshire to buy Powerball lottery tickets. Now he goes to his neighborhood store.On Friday, Moody was among the first people to buy Powerball tickets at Joe s Smoke Shop when they went on sale in Maine for the first time. Moody, 52, knows the odds of winning the jackpot are 120 million to 1, but he likes the huge payouts -- which can be 100 times higher, or even more, than the Tri-State Megabucks lottery. Set for life, right? The jackpot is $54 million this weekend,
Aug 2, 2004, 9:55 am - Todd - Lottery News

$100 million jackpot boosts demand for lottery ticketsNews Story
Abel Ybarra looks at the $1 Mega Millions lottery ticket that he purchased Monday night as an investment, not a waste of money.Just like the stock market, you keep putting money in until you make a nice profit, Ybarra said, as he held his ticket outside the Supertrak convenience store in east Arlington. Buying cigarettes and beer is wasting money, said Ybarra, a warehouse inventory worker. If I win, I would have become a millionaire on a $1 investment. State lottery officials expect 3 million
Dec 23, 2003, 5:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Scratched Lottery Tickets Wanted
Wanted Scratched Lottery tickets. Email with what you have.
Mar 9, 2002, 6:15 am - Guest - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida store employee arrested for 'micro-scratching' lottery ticketsNews Story
Includes video report Authorities say a Florida convenience store clerk was cashing in by cheating, while selling customers worthless lottery tickets. Lottery officials say he got greedy and tried to cash in too many big winning lottery scratch-off tickets at the Tampa Lottery District Office. One major red flag was when he tried to claim a $500 winning scratch-off ticket that hadn't even been scratched. For more than a year, lottery officials believe an employee of a Radiant conveni
Jan 6, 2017, 9:10 am - Todd - Lottery News

Why Americans Will Quit ( Gambling ) Playing The Lottery?Reply
Even though I saw the transaction, I still don't believe it's legal to buy lottery tickets using an EBT card. I never saw the law where buying lottery tickets with a debit or credit card is illegal, but a small store owner told me he didn't because of his cost. Many smaller stores have minimum limits for using debit cards. From the PA Lottery: While the Lottery discourages retailers from accepting checks and credit cards as a form of payment for Lottery tickets, it is ultimately up to each
Oct 6, 2014, 1:24 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Honest: Idaho Lottery retailers pass 4-month security auditNews Story
Using undercover operatives and decoy high-tier winning tickets, the Idaho Lottery has concluded a four month investigation to protect the security and integrity of all its games. During the investigation, the Lottery evaluated cashing procedures of the decoy winning tickets at 128 of its 1150 retailers in 61 cities and towns across Idaho. The net result of the investigation showed that 100% of all Idaho Lottery retailers checked had met all of the security and integrity criteria. We believe
Sep 17, 2012, 11:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Would you join online lottery group?Reply
jackpotbuddy, You must not have scrolled far enough down the page... CAN I BUY POWERBALL TICKETS THROUGH THE INTERNET? Some lotteries do sell TO THEIR RESIDENTS through the Internet but generally, no, at least not in the way that you might hope. Powerball tickets can only legally be purchased at a state lottery sales terminal in the lottery jurisdictions that sells the Powerball game. A lottery can also legally sell tickets on the Internet, but only to persons within its own state. No o
Jan 22, 2012, 12:20 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum