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Ontario Lottery Corp. ignored claims of corruptionNews Story
Scandal runs deep and wide; shoddy paperwork and turning a blind eye helped permeate corruption Ontario retail store owners and their families claimed about $100 million in lottery wins between 1999 and 2006, including tens of millions of fraudulent claims ignored by the public lottery corporation, the provincial ombudsman said yesterday. In a scathing report, Andre Marin said the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is more fixated on profits than the integrity of its lottery games and
Mar 27, 2007, 7:44 am - Lottery News

Indicted suspect to appear on Ohio Lottery TV showNews Story
A man awaiting trial on charges accusing him of bilking $135,000 from three people in a home-repair scam is scheduled to appear on the Ohio Lottery's television game show, officials said. Timothy Snyder and other contests, who earn appearances on Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich through scratch-off lottery tickets, potentially could win $60,000 or more on the show. There are no laws or rules preventing Snyder from appearing on the show, which was taped this week, lottery spokeswoman Marie Ki
Mar 15, 2007, 11:21 am - Lottery News

Change in Penn. Lottery scratch tickets removes shortcutNews Story
A change in the format of Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off tickets to prevent fraud means that some lottery players could be mistakenly tossing away winning tickets, retailers said. Since January, instant tickets have been printed with a new kind of security coding for retailers to verify that a winning ticket is valid. Previously, a row of letters and numbers at the top or bottom of a ticket indicated the prize won. For example, a row interspersed with (5) and (0) meant the ticket was a $
Mar 12, 2007, 10:26 am - Lottery News

Two Canadian lottery scammers arrestedNews Story
Two Abbotsford, British Columbia, men were arrested Saturday by Bellingham police in connection with a lottery scam that cheated its victims of thousands of dollars. James Richard Jongkind, and Daniel Mark Duerksen, both 25, were apprehended in a lottery fraud investigation that involves victims from across the United States. We are expecting to discover more victims and greater monetary losses as this investigation continues, said Police Chief Randall Carroll in a press release. Th
Jan 19, 2007, 3:48 pm - Lottery News

Gang 'used 007-style gadgets' to cheat casinosNews Story
A chef who turned high-tech poker cheat with an array of James Bond-style spy equipment to pocket an estimated 250,000 (US$491,000) was jailed for nine months today. Yau Yiv Lam, 45, and two other partners in crime, repeatedly preyed on casinos throughout London using miniature up-the-sleeve cameras and virtually invisible earpieces to reverse the odds and chalk up a string of spectacular wins. As he filmed cards dealt by the croupier, footage was beamed to an accomplice in a van equipp
Jan 15, 2007, 4:15 pm - Lottery News

Does $9 goof point to larger problems with Ontario Lottery?News Story
When Ralph Landry finally wins the big one, he wants to know that the jackpot isn't accidentally given to somebody else. But the 67-year-old retired Air Canada employee has lost faith after he went to claim a small prize and found out that somehow somebody else got paid the money in another town. How does this happen? he asked. The self-proclaimed lottery addict bought his daily dose of lottery tickets at the Daisy Mart on Dec. 27, won $9 on a scratch-and-win Bingo and then within
Jan 11, 2007, 4:33 pm - Lottery News

Oregon Lottery winner goes to jailNews Story
A White City woman accused of using a dead woman's credit card to buy an Oregon Lottery ticket that won a $1 million prize has been jailed for violating her probation on a methamphetamine possession charge. Christina Goodenow, 39, was sentenced to six months in custody for violating her probation in a 2003 methamphetamine case. Meanwhile, she remains in a dispute with authorities over the lottery proceeds. Authorities say Goodenow spent about $11,000 using the card of the mother of a lo
Nov 18, 2006, 9:15 am - Lottery News

Lottery win ends in lawsuitNews Story
Former common-law couple at war after winning $21 million in 6/49 It's a perfectly ordinary-looking convenience store at the corner of King Street East and Union Street in Preston. One Stop Convenience sells junk food, cigarettes and basic groceries definitely no caviar or diamonds. But according to a lawsuit filed in a Brampton court, the owner of the modest convenience store has a lottery ticket worth $21 million and he's trying to keep it all to himself. Young Hee Cho is alleg
Sep 1, 2006, 7:18 am - Lottery News

Lottery Post member turns up the heat on the Hoosier LotteryNews Story
Is the Indiana Lottery vulnerable to inside tampering? By Kevin Leininger Fort Wayne News Sentinel You'd think Jim Grimes would be happy. After all, the retired Noble County engineer, whose concerns about the integrity of the Hoosier Lottery were the subject of a column in June 2004, helped spark an investigation that led to three indictments in an alleged million-dollar scam. But, if anything, Grimes is even more frustrated than he was when we first talked nearly two years ago - even
Jan 31, 2006, 6:06 pm - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery increases funds for securityNews Story
People wouldn't play the Hoosier Lottery if they didn't think they could win.That's why the William C. Foreman case is so troubling for those who run the state's lottery.For months, officials have been trying to repair the damage done when Foreman, a former lottery investigator, was accused in November of obtaining insider information to help friends get a $1 million scratch-off ticket. Prosecutors say he had his friends buy every ticket in a store where he knew there was a winner.Lottery offici
Jul 29, 2005, 1:33 pm - Lottery News