Study: N.C. Lottery scammers have cheated state out of $7 million

Comment #14

itpmguru — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 01:17:21 GMT

The couple of million dollars that the state loses to people like these (having others claiming prizes for the), pails in comparison to the MILLIONS every week that NC players are bilked by a corrupt lottery system. Every since Alice Garland came into power she has been non-stop trying to scam players!

It is time for the people of NC to demand a NCEL investigation and for her to go to prison

Comment #13

LottoAce — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 17:35:16 GMT

I agree with you RJOh. it would not be cost effective to track a million dollars a year.

the manpower and resourses alone would bite you in the rear.

Comment #12

American Indian — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 12:11:26 GMT

I am sure the Printed Lottery Tickets (PB, MM, Etc)have changed a lot since I last worked at a Convenience Store but their was no way to pull a printout of what #'s were ever sold on a Ticket! at the end of each shift all you could do was print out the dollar amount of lotto tickets sold! Even back then when employee's wanted to buy Lottery Tickets another Employee had to ring them up take the money, why would you want to make your own employees go to a different Store and spend their money ther... [ More ]

Comment #11

itpmguru — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 03:42:16 GMT

IMHO, the only Scammers at play here are NCEL themselves under direction of Director Alice Garland herself. NCEL P3/P4 games have changed SO VERY much in the past 3 years since introducing 1-off, (which only pays when you are 1-off) that many veteran players in NC have given up. They have given up because numerology does not lie in other states, but does not even come close in NC anymore. Player-ship is up in NC, but yet they have had some of the lowest payouts ever in the history of NCEL over t... [ More ]

Comment #10

ronki — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 10:58:11 GMT

Raleigh will just think of something else to Tax us on to make up for the loss

Comment #9

music* — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:21:37 GMT

Do not forget Karma. What goes around comes around to get you.

Dishonesty will slow you down on your path.

Do unto others as you would have them do to you.

Comment #8

KINDWIN — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:49:38 GMT

How about, people win because they bought a ticket?.( Multi tickits.) How much would they make if people stopped playing ? there have been record breaking sales almost every month.. they are trippin

Comment #7

glisit3000 — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:01:59 GMT

It's not always about owing money or being illegal. Im not illegal and dont owe anything but i wouldnt claim the money myself if i ever were to win for certain reasons that is my personal business. I dont see how its scamming.

Comment #6

MaximumMillions — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:54:29 GMT

They probably owe more and wouldn't be able to keep any of it.

Comment #5

grwurston — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:40:16 GMT

The clerks know which of their regular players hit the most often. After the customer leaves, they just need to pull up a printout and play the same numbers themselves.

Are there dishonest clerks that rip people off? Yep. But that happens to the players who hand their tickets to the clerk and say, Can you check this for me . If they would check the tickets themselves, that would end.

Comment #4

helpmewin — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:26:08 GMT

Why don't they just pay the money they owe with the Lottery's money.

Comment #3

RJOh — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:12:57 GMT

Lottery scammers have cheated North Carolina out of an estimated $7 million in back taxes and delinquent child support since 2009, a non-partisan arm of the General Assembly said.

That comes out to about a million dollars a year, I wonder how much the state would be willing to spend trying to collect it. There's a reason states don't bother tracking prizes less than $600. If a person is in the business of buying winning tickets then he/she is prepared to make it costly for the state to prove... [ More ]

Comment #2

Bleudog101 — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:07:14 GMT

A Granny @ work had on a KY Lottery winner t-shirt. Asked her how much she won and she said she cashed in a ticket for a 'friend'. So it probably happens everywhere.

Comment #1

reddog — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 22:28:45 GMT

I appreciate reading the article, but N.C. must not be singled out in this Nation wide act. N.C. is just the only state presently that has come up with a guess estimate of how much they are losing from dead beat parents and illegals. Just 6 weeks ago we had a guy, where I work at, won $1,000 on a scratch off and was trying to sell it for $600 because he owed back child support. I see it all the time.

Study: N.C. Lottery scammers have cheated state out of $7 million

Lottery Post — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:55:19 GMT

Lottery scammers have cheated North Carolina out of an estimated $7 million in back taxes and delinquent child support since 2009, a non-partisan arm of the General Assembly said.

At the request of a state legislator, the Fiscal Research Division teamed up with a UNC-Chapel Hill statistician to calculate the loss following an Observer investigation that found dozens of players winning the lottery so often that their luck defies logic.

Highlighted in the Observer's series was a lucrative se... [ More ]