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Idaho Lottery alerts retailers to possible bulk buying attempt over $877,800 Idaho Cash jackpotReply
Fraud. I tried to find a simple definition but it is far more complex than most people think. As Brock lee said, buying a ton of tickets is meaningless. I could hire 100 people to spend days running to various retailers. The purchases are legal. Key Elements of Fraud (according to Black's Law Dictionary): False Representation: The act involves a false statement or the suppression of a truth. Material Fact: The false statement must be about a fact that is significant to the transacti
Oct 19, 2025, 3:24 pm - Artist77 - Lottery News

Former Texas Lottery Director Gary Grief indicted on charge related to $95M Lotto Texas jackpotReply
I am not understanding what he allegedly did either. Did he get a kickback? Did he order stores to stop everything, close to the public, and allow the printing of millions of tickets? How did he collaborate with this foreign group? How could he have stopped them? Where is the fraud? Wasn't this ticket paid? I agree about Texas being obsessed with this big group play.
May 18, 2026, 8:37 pm - Artist77 - Lottery News

Arizona lottery retailer employee sued after buying $12.8 million ticket knowing it was a winnerReply
Well those things rarely happen in precedent setting cases without counsel having participated in fraud, missing court ordered deadlines over and over and general outrageous conduct. I have seen it happen in two divorce cases where a friend and an acquaintance married bums and regretted it a few years later. Both husbands kept changing their Counsel every few months because they did not pay their prior attorneys and engaged in lying to the court about not being able to attend court hearings sinc
Feb 28, 2026, 2:43 pm - Artist77 - Lottery News

$1.8 BILLION: Powerball jackpot now second-largest ever as ticket sales surge across the USAReply
Nope. TAX FRAUD. Hard to spend $ from prison. You pay taxes in the state where you purchased the ticket first and then in any applicable home state. There is an offsetting credit.
Sep 6, 2025, 10:04 am - Artist77 - Lottery News

Michigan woman wins $100,000 Powerball prize from lottery numbers picked by ChatGPTReply
There is a high risk of using Chat GTP and it happened before when too many people won the lottery with Chinese fortune Cookies let say at the end wasn't Much lol In 2005, a large number of people did indeed win the lottery's second-place prize using the same numbers found in fortune cookies . The incident was not due to fraud but resulted from the single factory that produced the cookies, Wonton Food Inc., printing the same set of lucky numbers in thousands of cookies across the country
Oct 29, 2025, 8:18 pm - JoeBigLotto - Lottery News

Elderly Washington woman loses her home and $600,000 to Jamaican lottery scammerReply
Those who live by the sword will perish by the sword Karma is the ultimate vengeance Roshard Andrew Carty is now on Karma's vengeance list and the same Sward of fraud he pointed at his victim is now reversed and pointed at him
Jun 2, 2026, 12:58 am - Participant - Lottery News

Spanish village loses out on El Gordo lottery winnings as a result of ticket blunderNews Story
Annual Christmas drawing doles out 2.7 billion By Kate Northrop Spain's famous annual El Gordo, which translates to The Fat One, has expectedly spurred celebration across the nation with its 2.7 billion (US$2.8 billion) prize payout, but a ticket slip up has left some villagers in a small town shorthanded. Townsfolk in Villamanin, a village of fewer than 1,000 residents, won 35 million in the 2.7 billion El Gordo lottery draw but lost 4 million of that prize money due to a ticket blu
Dec 30, 2025, 8:16 am - Todd - Lottery News

Idaho Lottery alerts retailers to possible bulk buying attempt over $877,800 Idaho Cash jackpotReply
waiting until the jackpot reaches a certain amount before playing isn't fraud. the fraudulent stuff is when courier companies get their own dedicated machines to print off lottery tickets in a way that a regular member of the public can't access. that's what was going in in texas with one of the couriers who set up a fake store where they just printed tickets all day long or some such. if a group of friends decides to take a day off work to drive around to a bunch of convenience stores t
Oct 19, 2025, 2:38 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery News

Florida convenience store manager arrested for stealing over $300,000 in lottery ticketsNews Story
Huge theft became too big not to notice By Kate Northrop An employee at a Florida Lottery retailer was arrested after admitting to stealing an egregious number of lottery tickets totaling $300,000 in value. Miami police apprehended a convenience store manager after he was ousted for his massive $300,000 lottery ticket theft. Rakesh Tanguturi, 34, was handed charges of Organized Fraud of $50,000 or more and Grand Theft in the 2nd Degree this week, the result of a recent investigat
Mar 2, 2026, 9:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Powerball jackpot juggernaut keeps rollingReply
The scandal involving Nick Perry and Edward Plevel refers to the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery Daily Number fix, in which they and several others rigged a drawing to produce the number 666. The scheme involved weighting the lottery balls so that only certain numbers could be drawn. Key participants Nick Perry: The television announcer for the daily live drawings. He was identified by a grand jury as the mastermind of the plot. Edward Plevel: A former lottery district manager. He was involve
Sep 4, 2025, 10:30 pm - TwoMillion - Lottery News