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Inside the biggest lottery scam everNews Story
Former MUSL employee denies rigging Hot Lotto drawing It was two days before Christmas in 2010 and Eddie Tipton had a $16.5 million lottery winner in his pocket. Sporting a hooded jacket, the stocky 47-year-old approached a silver-haired clerk at the counter of an Iowa-based Quik Trip market at around 3:30 p.m., stacking on the counter $3.17 worth of hot dogs, a fountain soda and two tickets. But Tipton didn't need Lady Luck. The Quik Trip purchase was phase two of a crafty plan to take
Jul 7, 2015, 1:03 pm - Lottery News

Extradition trial begins this week in $16.5M Hot Lotto fraud caseNews Story
Legal wheels turning after rigged Hot Lotto drawing uncovered After months of investigation and legal wrangling, legal actions against two men accused of rigging a multi-state Hot Lotto computerized drawing are proceeding. When Sugar Land, Texas, resident Robert C. Rhodes endorsed Eddie Tipton on the professional networking website LinkedIn, he deemed his friend and former business partner as someone very focused on the bottom line and someone he would work with again in a second. The
Jun 7, 2015, 9:00 am - Lottery News

New York man accused of running lottery con gameNews Story
A Rochester, New York, man has been accused of running a lottery con game in which three senior citizens were persuaded to send him a total of $138,000 in order to claim their mega-bucks winnings. The winnings were fictitious but the crime was real, federal prosecutors say: Roydel Nicholson was charged Friday with mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering in connection with the scheme, which he allegedly ran from his apartment on Van Auker Street. A criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. Di
Apr 25, 2015, 8:18 am - Lottery News

3 face charges in Indiana Lottery scamNews Story
Three people redeemed a fraudulent Hoosier Lottery ticket worth $2 million, buying a home and several vehicles with the money before police caught on to the scam, court documents allege. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced in a news conference Thursday that two men and a woman all relatives are facing 15 criminal counts in connection with a lottery fraud scheme that raked in more than $1.1 million. Ashlee Parsley, Jackie Parsley II and Joseph Parsley face theft, forgery and mone
Apr 24, 2015, 11:38 am - Lottery News

BOMBSHELL: MUSL employee might have rigged Hot Lotto computerized drawingNews Story
Lottery Post has been warning of the dangers of computerized drawings for over a decade, and now prosecutors of the mystery Hot Lotto winner from Iowa are looking at the possibility that those warnings have come true. Prosecutors believe there is evidence indicating a former information-security director for a lottery vendor in Iowa tampered with lottery equipment before buying a Hot Lotto ticket that would go on to win $14.3 million, according to court documents filed Thursday. The trial
Apr 13, 2015, 8:14 am - Lottery News

China's beloved national lottery suspected of massive fraudNews Story
China loves its national lottery, but now some very suspicious goings-on with the game has ignited a scandal that's capturing the country's attention. As in most other places, the drawing for China's lottery the only form of gambling the government allows outside of Macau is televised nationally, conducted by the China Welfare Lottery Issuing and Management Center, an agency of the government. But something appears to have gone wrong Sunday night, when the drawing for a 50-billion-yuan ($8
Jan 27, 2015, 10:02 am - Lottery News

MUSL employee arrested in Hot Lotto jackpot mysteryNews Story
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation has made an arrest in the four-year-old case involving a winning Hot Lotto ticket worth more than $16 million which the winner mysteriously decided not to claim. Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51, of Norwalk, was arrested on Thursday. He has been charged with two counts of fraud, which are class D felonies. Tipton is Director of Information Security for the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which is a vendor of the Iowa Lottery. His job prohibits hi
Jan 15, 2015, 10:44 pm - Lottery News

Alabama man loses $80,000 in foreign lottery scamNews Story
Includes video report Dannie Perry was a generous man who found himself caught up in a lottery scam. After relentless harassment from the criminals, he finally got them to stop contacting him. Postal inspectors have a reminder to avoid this happening to you or your loved ones. It was a great American dream to win some money where you could retire and you could take care of your grand kids and your family and just do what you wanted to do, says Dannie Perry, a fraud victim. Perry
Jul 15, 2014, 8:01 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma man arrested after trying to redeem forged lottery ticketNews Story
Oklahoma City police arrested a man last week trying to cash in a forged lottery ticket. According to the police report filed Friday June 19, 45-year-old Michael Allen Shaske of Tahlequah was hoping for a $20,000 payout by turning in an altered $3 scratch-off ticket and would not take 'no' for an answer from any of the clerks he went to that day. But all he got was a quick trip to jail. Well he was doing everything he could to get arrested for this, said MSgt. Gary Knight with the Okla
Jun 25, 2014, 10:36 am - Lottery News

Postal agents intercept, destroy fake lottery checksNews Story
Includes video report Instead of sending foreign lottery letters and checks directly to you from Canada, Jamaica, Costa Rica or Mexico, more and more, scammers are sending big batches of letters in a box, to middlemen in the United States. Each letter is stuffed in a pre-addressed envelope and many envelopes are stamped with American postage. The return addresses are typically just a private mailing center in an American city. The person who picks up the box may hand it off to yet another
Mar 4, 2014, 1:14 pm - Lottery News